Evidently we’re all being wagged by the dog to learn about the “Cloward-Piven Strategy”, and it’s definitely real, if it’s for real.

For my 15 minutes of due diligence, I went to the Wayback Machine and found this: https://web.archive.org/web/20190905021027/http://cloward-and-piven-strategy.blogspot.com/

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“Named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Piven, the general idea behind the strategy is to intentionally overload the government system so much that it causes a crisis and collapses with a subsequent loss of confidence that Cloward and Piven hoped would “hasten the fall of capitalism.” I am reminded that my late father, a conservative, had a good but incredibly liberal friend who would bluntly argue that the cost of avoiding violent class warfare in America is the network of welfare programs that keep the poor complacent. As much as the idea disgusts me I have always thought that he was at least partly right…The basic idea behind the Cloward-Piven strategy is to break the system in order to make the poor miserable enough to rebel. Not surprisingly to those of us watching the tactics being employed by the current ruling party, the author also mentions their connections to the radical Saul Alinsky, whose ideas apparently so inspired President Obama…

In their 1966 article, Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Poor people are able to advance exclusively when “the rest of society is afraid of them,” Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970.”

h/t @FreyjaTarte on Twitter

here’s a link to a short Joe Rogan interview about this:

https://x.com/james_jinnette1/status/1769082359599497624?s=20