What the left thinks, but isn't telling you.

04Dec09
Continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A failed stimulus package. Pending nationalized health care, and cap and trade legislation. With record national debt fed by declining tax revenues from this economic recession, and the treasury hemorrhaging cash, a government bankruptcy seems inevitable. How do our elected officials propose to stop it?

They don't.

Obama crony turned White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has been famously quoted for saying "Never waste a good crisis". It could as easily have been the words of Saul Alinsky, or even Machiavelli. There is a radical progressive element within today's Democratic party that's feeding the current crisis, to resurrect an old proposal, and fundamentally transform our nation.

In 1966 two Columbia university professors of sociology named Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, frustrated with what they saw as the slow progress of American society and being loyal Marxists, formulated a theory of national transition to central economic planning AKA Socialism.

It became known as the Cloward-Piven strategy. Cloward and Piven noted that a majority of the people legally eligible for government assistance chose not to take advantage of that assistance. Their theory involved a massive drive to de-stigmatize public assistance, and enroll all eligible citizens.

They theorized that a sudden massive expansion of entitlement spending, during a time of high overall government spending (war), would overwhelm the system and cause a budget crisis that would force federal redistribution of wealth to maintain the government's solvency.

With that door opened, and chaos threatening to ensue, grassroots pressure would be brought to bear on the Democratic party to eliminate poverty and civil unrest by establishing a guaranteed minimum annual income. Thus completing the redistribution cycle, and America's transformation to socialism.

While Cloward and Piven were referring specifically to the welfare entitlement system, in the larger context of the Vietnam war, does not mean their ideas died simply because they didn't succeed the first time out. Today's conditions are even more ripe because of the current recession, and the student dissidents indoctrinated in Marxist philosophy in the sixties, are the people running our government and grassroots organizations today.

One of those individuals is ACORN founder Wade Rathke. While Cloward and Piven were referring only to swamping the welfare system, ACORN has made it their mission to overwhelm the entire federal entitlement system from welfare, to housing assistance, and pushing organized labor. ACORN calls it their "Maximum Eligible Participation" program, they want to ensure that every person who walks through their doors wrings every last penny they can out of taxpayers.

But ACORN is only one player. There's also the Tides foundation that funds them, SEIU that's trying to unionize every service worker in America, The New Party, The Working Families Party, The Democratic Socialist of America. All of them are on board.

But the most dangerous players in all of this are the elected officials who are either willfully ignorant of the consequences, or complicit in the effort. I tend to believe it's the latter. Howard Dean, former Democratic party chairman has declared "The debate between capitalism and socialism is over". The Democratic party intends to give us all the benefits of capitalism to let us work our way out of poverty, then tax us to death when we succeed, using socialism to drag us down to the median. European style socialism.

The only solution is an informed public, exposing their efforts to the light of day, and making them admit their agenda. The American people will never knowingly accept socialism, we need to open their eyes so they see it coming.