… the four years of Joe Biden's titular presidency likely represent what amounted to the most sweeping application of [the Cloward-Piven Strategy] ever attempted … overwhelm the existing system by introducing so many participants that it collapses, thus creating political chaos, which Democrats then promise to end by enacting comprehensive and fundamental systemic changes
The Biden Era Was the Ultimate Application — and Utterly Predictable Failure — of the Cloward-Piven Strategy, writes Instapundit's Mark Tapscott.
There was a time in the mid-1960s when two left-wing Columbia University professors — Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven — enjoyed a brief run of media celebrity by espousing a strategy for Democrats they believed could force the creation of an American welfare state based on a guaranteed annual income.
… Put simply, Cloward-Piven said [in the Nation Magazine that] the way to force radical socialist reform of capitalistic America was to overwhelm the existing system by introducing so many participants that it collapses, thus creating political chaos, which Democrats then promise to end by enacting comprehensive and fundamental systemic changes.
If that formula — known ever since the Swinging Sixties as the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" (CPS) — sounds familiar despite its origins seven decades ago, it should, because Democrats are still using it. In fact, the four years of Joe Biden's titular presidency likely represent what amounted to the most sweeping application of CPS ever attempted.
Considered in this context, Biden's open border policy was pure CPS — removing every barrier to the entry of so many illegal immigrants coming into the country that Border Patrol and other immigration system personnel were reduced to little more than temporary escorts, housekeepers and travel agents.
Nobody knows with certainty the actual total of illegals who came into this country, but the figure of 11 million is almost certainly near the ballpark's home plate.
… Not only did Biden's open border policy all but shut down the immigration system, the unregulated flood of illegal immigrants into major cities including New York and Chicago offered the additional benefit of threatening to overwhelm local law enforcement and human welfare systems.
But the border chaos was only the most prominent of Biden CPS applications. Biden took office in Jan. 2021 with the nation still reeling from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Biden imposed an authoritarian vaccination program to inoculate 200 million Americans, and included compulsory shots for millions of Americans, many of whom were at risk of losing their jobs for failing to do so. Public schools remained closed, public services constricted and local economies floundered.
Between Biden's $1.9 trillion American Relief Act and $1.2 trillion Inflation Reduction Act, the money supply was swamped with cheap money that drove up inflation to record levels. Hundreds of billions of tax dollars were lost to improper payments in pandemic-related special business aid and unemployment benefits, and, encouraged by official policies, millions of illegal immigrants became Social Security and Medicaid beneficiaries.
… By enabling the addition of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to the Social Security rolls and extending Medicaid benefits to another estimated 1.3 million illegals, the bankruptcies of both programs are nearer than ever.
And just for the record, let's not forget how the left, empowered as never before by the Biden regime, engaged in the courtroom edition of CPS by mounting the unprecedented, and ultimately failed, attempt to entangle Donald Trump in litigation stemming from a series of bogus criminal charges in multiple jurisdictions.
The dozens of lawsuits filed since Trump's inauguration and the explosion of nationwide injunctions issued by mostly Biden and Obama District Court appointees is the second level of the left's courtroom CPS.
With reports of horrendous crimes committed by illegals against U.S. citizens going about their daily lives, inflation keeping eggs and other staples at record highs, continuing chaos at the border as more illegals raced to get across the border before the Nov. 2024 election, voters went to the polls and chose ... Donald Trump, who promised to stop the chaos, restore law and order, and restore economic sanity and prosperity.
Millions of working-class Americans, Hispanics and blacks who traditionally voted strongly for Democrats for generations went for Trump, in a potentially landmark shift in American politics that will influence elections for decades to come.
… [As for President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty], trillions of tax dollars spent on failed welfare programs has not ended poverty. Ironically, a key fact in that regard was recognized by the authors of CPS in their original magazine piece, where they said their approach "is based on the fact that a vast discrepancy exists between the benefits to which people are entitled under public welfare programs and the sums which they actually receive."
Aha! Trillions spent on welfare doesn't even begin to put trillions in the pockets of the poorest Americans. The reality is that, for the most part, those tax dollars enriched legions of civil servants, government consultants, politicians, public relations operators, academic "experts" and nonprofit activists.
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