Over The Edge, Into The Abyss

[The Rabbi]

why does everyone refuse to admit the "tea party" is a for profit party....

amazing how dumb people can be....for profit....well at least they are truthful and admit all they want is the money

WTF are you talking about?

facts, something you never let annoy you

And what would you know from facts?
Do you really think the Democratic party is not for profit?

 

[mudwhistle]

I think Xen is right. It's about simple minds. It is easier to think someone 'hates' the 'black' guy than to honestly look at why people are angry. It's a bite size message.

Of course it is.

The left has been on this from day one, they did it to their own side, they called Hillary and Bill Clinton racist because she dared run against the annointed one, remember?

The Dems have a way of destroying their own.

They ruined Howard Dean's chances by repeating his scream a thousand times.

They tried to bring down Obama when Hillary was the chosen by claiming he wasn't black enough.

Then they destroyed Hillary's chances by focusing on her claim that she landed in Bosnia under sniper fire.

This whole fight over health care has been about who's agenda will prevail.....moderates or the extremism of progressives. The GOP and most of America has been left out of the struggle....and now they're comparing this "Victory" to the Civil Rights struggle of the 60s. Problem is that struggle was over equality....and this one is about showing favoritism towards an isolated group, plus it is about raising taxes on all of us.

A decade ago the Dems had run out of ideas on how to raise our taxes. They needed new ways to do it so they discovered Saul Alinsky and the teaching of Cloward and Piven.

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Cloward-Piven is a strategy for forcing political change through orchestrated crisis.
The strategy was first proposed in 1966 by Columbia University political scientists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven as a plan to bankrupt the welfare system and produce radical change. Sometimes known as the "crisis strategy" or the the "flood-the-rolls, bankrupt-the-cities strategy," the Cloward-Piven approach called for swamping the welfare rolls with new applicants - more than the system could bear. It was hoped that the resulting economic collapse would lead to political turmoil and ultimately socialism.
The National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), founded by African-American militant George Alvin Wiley, put the Cloward-Piven strategy to work in the streets. Its activities led directly to the welfare crisis that bankrupted New York City in 1975.
Veterans of NWRO went on to found the Living Wage Movement and the Voting Rights Movement, both of which rely on the Cloward-Piven strategy and both of which are spear-headed by the radical cult ACORN.
Both the Living Wage and Voting Rights movements depend heavily on financial support from George Soros's Open Society Institute.


On August 11, 1965, the black district of Watts in Los Angeles exploded into violence, after police used batons to subdue a man suspected of drunk driving. Riots raged for six days, spilling over into other parts of the city, and leaving 34 dead. Two Columbia University sociologists, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven were inspired by the riots to develop a new strategy for social change. In November 1965 - barely three months after the fires of Watts had subsided - Cloward and Piven began privately circulating copies of an article they had written called "Mobilizing the Poor: How it Could Be Done." Six months later (on May 2, 1966), it was published in The Nation, under the title, "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty." http://cloward-piven.com/