Democrats Using Cloward-Piven as their Midterm Hail Mary Pass

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Cloward-Piven is a political strategy first described in 1966, by two Columbia University sociologists, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. This was published appropriately in the far-left The Nation, the oldest continuously published news magazine in the country. Cloward-Piven’s goal was the creation of, “A political crisis would result that could lead to legislation for a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty.”

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In addition to expanding the welfare rolls internally, another way to overwhelm the system is to import more welfare recipients with the goal of overwhelming the system. This occurs via immigration, both legal and illegal.

Think of what the current migrant caravan means in terms of Cloward-Piven. Thousands of poor, unskilled migrants entering the US. They need health care, education, housing, food, clothing, and other basic needs which all cost money. Who pays for this? The migrants arrive with the clothes on their back, not with job offers from Fortune 500 companies and guaranteed self-sufficiency.

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Cloward-Piven and the Migrant Invasion​

Keynes is also famous for saying: “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.” Once again he is wrong. We are currently being pushed even faster toward disaster, not just by his voodoo macroeconomics, and not by the ideas of dead economists, but of a deceased sociologist.



The sociologists in question are a husband and wife team, the late Richard Cloward and his wife Francis Fox Piven (still with us at 92), professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work. The Cloward-Piven Strategy, which the couple first published in the socialist magazine The Nation, sought to bring change out of chaos. The idea was that social workers and other government employees and leftist groups (Ms. Piven was on the board of Democratic Socialists of America) would cajole anyone they could to apply for every government assistance program, until the welfare state was so overloaded it broke down, which would lead, they thought, to the institution of a “free” minimum guaranteed income for every American.

Whether this would have worked or not, subsequent strategists on the left clearly decided to expand it by importing poor people from anywhere in the third world. With billions of poor people you could certainly overload government assistance programs. You could also use them to replace misbehaving American voters. (Cloward and Piven were also the people behind motor-voter registration.) If you were really anti-American and “anti-imperialist” you could hope the expanded government, funded by Keynesian currency debasement, would lead to the collapse of the dollar as a reserve currency and the end of American power internationally. (Allowing the neo-Maoists of the CCP to take control of vast regions of the world.)

But government assistance programs are not the only systems buckling under Cloward-Piven-designed overload. The current legal battle to force President Trump to give every illegal alien due process in extended court hearings before they are deported is an attempt to overload the courts. Progressives have never been in favor of due process generally. They might favor it for criminals or juvenile delinquents, but for citizens at large they have opposed an individual’s right to sue government regulators who force them to get a vaccination before they can hold a job or serve in the military, who tell them what cakes they must make or weddings they must service, or in general what economic activities they can engage in. Even in immigration policy, President Obama deported 313,000 illegal aliens in 2012 without any judicial review, earning him complaints from the ACLU.

But Obama had the confidence that he could win elections by appealing to actual American voters. Biden and Kamala Harris had no such confidence. The mass importation of 20 million unvetted illegal aliens by the Biden administration was mainly intended to plump up and multiply the number of Democrat congressional districts and the number of Electoral College votes of Blue states, as well as to replace American voters with fraudulent “motor-voter” illegal alien voters in all jurisdictions.