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Cloward-Piven at the border
Human Events ^ | 6/9/14 | John Hayward

Posted on 06/09/2014 7:36:33 AM PDT by Nachum

Back in the Sixties, Marxists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven came up with a great strategy for overloading and collapsing democratic welfare states, paving the way for socialist tyranny. Basically, the idea was to hit the system with a tidal wave of demands it couldn’t refuse, and couldn’t possibly fulfill. The Left would then insist that the moral argument for the system remained intact, so the only way to meet those impossible demands was to scrap every vestige of Constitutional restraint and republican self-government, instituting a totalitarian system that in theory would forcibly restructure society to promote “fairness” and give all those government dependents what they “deserve.” (In practice, of course, what you actually get is an iron-fisted dictatorship that cooks up reports to make itself look good, or simply tells the unhappy citizens to shut up and obey when things deteriorate to the point that no volume of phony reports can paper over the problems – say, when the glorious worker’s paradise of Venezuela runs out of tap water.)

Cloward and Piven were specifically interested in replacing welfare programs with a government-guaranteed annual income for everyone – an idea that still emerges from the more absurd quarters of the Left occasionally – but the basic idea of overloading the republican system and replacing it with centrally-planned tyranny can be applied in many different ways. Take a look at the humanitarian crisis on the southern border, which I wrote about two weeks ago. It has since burst onto the front pages with some astonishing stories, including leaked photos of illegal alien children – many of them 12 years old and younger – “warehoused” in overcrowded facilities, where there are growing concerns about sanitation and disease. CBS News in Houston writes of unaccompanied minors sleeping on plastic boards in a

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1 posted on 06/09/2014 7:36:33 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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2 posted on 06/09/2014 7:37:07 AM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

As with Alinsky. Claims about caring for the poor are just BS to cover the fact that they see the poor as rungs on a ladder to be stepped on.


3 posted on 06/09/2014 7:38:22 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Nachum

But, we cannot even “dream” of Articles of Impeachment, says the Surrender Monkey Caucus here.

BOHICA


4 posted on 06/09/2014 7:40:28 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: Nachum

Record numbers out of the labor force.
Record numbers on welfare.
Record numbers on Food Stamps.
Record numbers of 'disabled'.

The time is near...

when tyranny becomes law rebellion becomes duty

5 posted on 06/09/2014 7:44:03 AM PDT by Fear The People (When the government fears the people, you have LIBERTY.)
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To: Nachum

Well, the people of this country are not only allowing their elected officials to allow this to happen, they themselves are allowing this to happen.

Where’s the outrage over this? I don’t see any.


6 posted on 06/09/2014 7:47:46 AM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: don-o
How can you say that about the wonderful GOP and how they stood up to the onslaught of tyranny from the left every step of the way…. Phessawwww… sorry… I thought I could get through typing that with a straight face..

The problem for the Surrender Monkey Caucus is that sooner of later Articles of Impeachment will be necessary.

Does anyone really think that Obummer is going to just go so far in destroying the country and then stop?

He’s going to keep going until he is Impeached … better to do it now and limit the damage then later on..

7 posted on 06/09/2014 7:51:14 AM PDT by HammerT (The Right to keep and bear arms: A Commonsense Civil Right)
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To: Nachum

With a little help from his friend the GOP they will all get to stay.


8 posted on 06/09/2014 7:55:33 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Nachum

bttt


9 posted on 06/09/2014 7:56:58 AM PDT by Luigi Vasellini (End the political class.......TERM LIMITS NOW!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Nachum; All
these "(Marxist) professors"; should've been ostracized, when they "proposed" this CR@P.
these Marxist cretins; really needed to actually work in "the real world", not "the fantasy of the
college faculty lounge..If they *itch about it, fire 'em

10 posted on 06/09/2014 7:59:11 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: Nachum

These were Obama’s teachers and ‘guidance’ counselors.


11 posted on 06/09/2014 8:09:25 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: HammerT
He’s going to keep going until he is Impeached … better to do it now and limit the damage then later on...

If he's impeached and not removed from office it's just an enabling act - he'll consider himself immune to retribution. He's going to have to be impeached over and over and over again until the Senate gets the message. All that time there won't be a chance in hell of any limit to his malfeasance - he'll just double down. There's really only one chance for justice to be done, and right now it resides with Harry Reid. OOOOOPS!

So impeachment is futile, and dangerous. However he knows this, so he'll still ratchet up the lawlessness secure that he's safe from retribution. DOUBLE OOOOOOOPS!

Personally I'm leaning in favor of impeachment, because at least we can draw a line in the sand. But it's still the Alamo.

12 posted on 06/09/2014 8:14:16 AM PDT by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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To: Nachum

Cloward-Piven at the border, internal/eternal enemies in the house, congress, courts and states.


13 posted on 06/09/2014 8:16:20 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Nachum

This is interesting:

“Contrary to popular mythology about President Obama being some sort of deportation hard-liner, the truth is that most of his “deportations” were actually catch-and-release scenarios played out at the border – people who were essentially repulsed rather than caught and deported. Such people were not counted as “deportations” in the past – remember what I said about the government cooking the books to make itself look better? Well, catch-and-release only works when the illegal aliens in question come from Mexico. There’s no practical method for sending the wave of families and unaccompanied minors surging in from Central America back to their homes.”


14 posted on 06/09/2014 8:21:08 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Nachum
It's an INVASION is what is is.

And Obama has caused it!

This is why Conservatives have always wanted a Secure Border BEFORE any Amnesty negotiations.

15 posted on 06/09/2014 8:21:33 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Nachum
Cloward and Piven were specifically interested in replacing welfare programs with a government-guaranteed annual income for everyone

Flawed theology. If this were the case no one would work. A pay check would be guaranteed.
Where would the financial support to pay for it all come from? Children would have to be forced to work in the fields after their indoctrination classes every day to feed the nations freeloading. They wouldn't be able to keep up with the food demands, so certain segments of the population would have to be "eliminated" as useless eaters to make sure there would be enough to go around.
History has seen this all play out before. It always ends up the same. Millions will end up dead. It happens every time socialism is tried.

16 posted on 06/09/2014 8:23:49 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Nachum; Liz; South40; HiJinx

Have a heart. All I see is an Act Of Love.../s


17 posted on 06/09/2014 8:25:12 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Nachum
Coping: With that Low-Motion War With Mexico
18 posted on 06/09/2014 8:28:45 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: no-s

Compare this to the initial crimes of a juvenile delinquent where it’s not punished properly and doesn’t learn the lesson.

Most of the time the crimes only get worse and worse, rarely do they correct themselves on their own.

If the GOP doesn’t take action to maintain the rule of law, history will judge them just as harshly as it will the DNC.

They crow a lot about freedom and the rule of law, but when the spit hits the fan where are they?


19 posted on 06/09/2014 8:28:58 AM PDT by HammerT (The Right to keep and bear arms: A Commonsense Civil Right)
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To: don-o
An unfortunate reality is that the libs are doing everything they can to goad republicans into moving toward impeachment. They know full well the media would go into a full blown frenzy over the racism on display and it would doom all conservative candidates. (Look at how they have been able to drive home the idea that the Tea Party is racist.)

Obama is well aware of his pigmentation immunity and that is why he pushes the envelope every week with a new dictatorial move that most will dare not oppose. Lazy people are easily led, this is the danger of a partisan media...


20 posted on 06/09/2014 8:29:38 AM PDT by Baynative (How much longer will the media be able to prop up this administration?)
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