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Chris:
The Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis

"Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one."
-- Saul Alinsky, "Rules for Radicals" (1989)

The Strategy was first elucidated in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation magazine by a pair of radical socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. David Horowitz summarizes it as the strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.  Cloward and Piven were inspired by radical organizer and Hillary Clinton mentor Saul Alinsky.

Their strategy to create political, financial, and social chaos that would result in revolution blended Alinsky concepts with their more aggressive efforts at bringing about a change in U.S. government. To achieve their revolutionary change, Cloward and Piven sought to use a cadre of aggressive organizers assisted by friendly news media to force a re-distribution of the nation's wealth.I

In their Nation article, Cloward and Piven were specific about the kind of crisis they were trying to create:  "By crisis, we mean a publicly visible disruption in some institutional sphere. Crisis can occur spontaneously (e.g., riots) or as the intended result of tactics of demonstration and protest which either generate institutional disruption or bring unrecognized disruption to public attention."

The vast expansion of welfare in New York City that came of the NWRO's Cloward-Piven tactics sent the city into bankruptcy in 1975. Rudy Giuliani cited Cloward and Piven by name as being responsible for "an effort at economic sabotage." He also credited Cloward-Piven with changing the cultural attitude toward welfare from that of a temporary expedient to a lifetime entitlement, an attitude which in-and-of-itself has caused perhaps the greatest damage of all.

Enter Barack Obama

Barack Obama at the epicenter of an incestuous stew of American radical leftism. Not only are his connections significant, they practically define who he is. Taken together, they constitute a who's who of the American radical left, and guiding all is the Cloward-Piven strategy.  Conspicuous in their absence are any connections at all with any other group, moderate, or even mildly leftist. They are all radicals, firmly bedded in the anti-American, communist, socialist, radical leftist mesh.


(read the rest at the American Thinker)

ColonialMarine0431:
Outstanding read.

In short, Obama, Soros, etc follow the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

Brilliant reading. Bookmark these and read them sometime.

Strategy for forcing political change through orchestrated crisis

And

The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part II: Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis

Chris:
Already posted, thanks for playing.

JohnnyReb:
Just so you'll know where Obama is coming from....or we're going to.

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Buy more buckshot.....for those close encounters when you don't want to offend someone.

NHSparky:
And notice how often and prominently ACORN is mentioned.  They are a tool for collapse, not support.  Too bad the useful idiots don't get that.

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