Biden Era Was the Ultimate Application — and Utterly Predictable Failure — of the Cloward-Piven Strategy

Two left-wing Columbia University professors, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, advocated a plan for Democrats that they believed would lead to the establishment of an American security position based on a certain monthly income during a short run in the media in the mid-1960s.

In a commonly read content in the era’s progressive flagship publication, Nation Magazine, the professors laid out their strategy as applied to the welfare state to explain the road to achieving all of the American left’s best economic, political and social goals:

Widespread campaigns to register the poor who qualify for welfare aid and assist existing recipients in receiving their full benefits would cause bureaucratic and state government bureaucratic disruption. &nbsp,

” These disruptions would generate severe political strains, and deepen existing divisions among elements in the big-city Democratic coalition: the remaining white middle class, the white working-class ethnic groups and the growing minority poor.

A national Democratic administration would be compelled to advance a federal solution to poverty that would override local welfare failures, local class and racial conflicts, and local revenue dilemmas to prevent a further weakening of that historic coalition.

Strong forces can be created by the internal disruption of local bureaucratic practices, the furor over public welfare poverty, and the collapse of current financing arrangements for major economic reforms at the national level. ” &nbsp,

Simply put, according to Cloward-Piven, the only way to impose radical socialist reform on a capitalist society was to overthrow the existing system, which would lead to political chaos, which Democrats promised to end by implementing comprehensive and fundamental systemic reform. &nbsp,

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, Joe Biden’s four years as president of the titular country likely constituted the most comprehensive CPS experiment ever attempted.

In this context, Biden’s open border policy was essentially CPS, removing every barrier to the entry of the country’s numerous illegal immigrants, leaving Border Patrol and other immigration system personnel as merely 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. As well as thousands of others whose names appear on terrorist watch lists and on the rolls of criminals found guilty of murder, rape, theft, and other serious crimes committed in their home countries, hundreds of thousands of these illegal aliens entered as “gotaways” and were seen crossing the border and entering the country without ever being detained.

The unrestricted flow of illegal immigrants into major cities like New York and Chicago added the benefit of threatening to overthrow local law enforcement and human welfare systems, which was another benefit of Biden’s open border policy.

But the border chaos was only the most prominent of Biden CPS applications. In January of this year, Biden took office despite the country still suffering from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Millions of Americans were required to receive shots as part of a program that authorized authoritarian vaccinations for 200 million of them, many of whom were at risk of losing their jobs as a result. Public schools remained closed, public services constricted and local economies floundered.

Between Biden’s$ 1.9 trillion American Relief Act and his$ 1.2 trillion Inflation Reduction Act, the money supply was strewn over by cheap money, which pushed inflation to record highs. Millions of illegal immigrants became beneficiaries of Social Security and Medicaid after being misrepresented in the special business aid and unemployment benefits for pandemic-related issues, encouraging official policies.

The added Medicaid beneficiaries have received little public notice, but the Washington Stand’s Suzanne Dabney laid it out in succinct fashion in a recent column:

The vast expansion of Medicaid since COVID is what most people are unaware of. In a new op-ed, House Freedom Caucus members warn that in the past five years, federal Medicaid spending has increased by 51 %, from$ 409 billion in 2019 to$ 618 billion in 2024. Despite being 60 years old, a third of Medicaid’s growth has occurred in those same five years. Additionally, the Congressional Budget Office projects that Medicaid will cost more than$ 1 trillion annually in the upcoming ten years, making it comparable to Saudi Arabia’s current economy in size. “”

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.

Let’s not forget how the left engaged in the courtroom edition of CPS by mounting the unprecedented, but ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to entangle Donald Trump in legal proceedings stemming from a series of false criminal charges in multiple jurisdictions, empowered as never before by the Biden regime.

The second level of the left’s courtroom CPS is the flurry of lawsuits filed since Trump’s inauguration and the rise in nationwide injunctions issued by primarily Biden and Obama District Court appointees.

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.

In a potentially historic shift in American politics that will have an impact on elections for decades to come, millions of working-class Americans, Hispanics, and blacks who traditionally voted strongly for Democrats for generations, chose Trump.

Does the fact that Democrats received a majority of the vote in 2024 indicate that CPS failed? On the surface, that seems to be the obvious answer. And since the 1970s, there has been a constant debate among academic circles about whether CPS “worked as its authors predicted.”

Social welfare experts Robert Rector and Rachel Scheffield noted in a 2014 report on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty that the numbers reveal the most important and important story.

” In his January 1964 State of the Union address, Johnson proclaimed,’ This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.’ Since that time, U.S. taxpayers have spent more than$ 22 trillion on anti-poverty initiatives ( in constant 2012 dollars ).

This spending, adjusted for inflation, is three times the cost of all American military battles since the American Revolution, according to the government. Despite this mountain of spending, progress against poverty, at least as measured by the government, has been minimal”.

The U.S. Census Bureau calculated that the official poverty rate was 14.7 % in 2014. Census estimates the rate to be 11.1 percent ten years later. But total expenditures for the period 1965 to 2024 exploded 1, 320 percent, adjusted for inflation even as the official poverty rate has remained in double figures for decades.

It is obvious that the trillions of dollars spent on failed welfare programs have not brought about the end of poverty. In their original magazine piece, the CPS authors pointed out that a significant gap exists between the benefits that people are entitled to through public welfare programs and the sums that people actually receive.

Aha! The poorest Americans ‘ trillions are not even beginning to be put into their pockets with welfare payments. In reality, those tax dollars largely paid off the salaries of legions of politicians, public relations professionals, academic “experts” and nonprofit activists.

Maybe the bottom line conclusion here is that neither CPS nor any other government welfare “reform” will ever eliminate poverty, because government simply isn’t capable of achieving such an end.

When He said:” Is there anything that Jesus knew?

For I was thirsty and given food, I was thirsty and given drink, I was a stranger and received a stranger’s clothing, I was sick and visited, I was in prison, and I arrived to me. Then the righteous will answer him, saying,’ Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we approach you and greet you, or when did we come in costume and wash you? And when did we visit you while you were sick or in jail? And the King will answer them,’ Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, ]a] you did it to me.'”

And perhaps that’s why He also said,” Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.” &nbsp,

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