Cloward-Piven Skepticism
Yesterday, I mentioned the Cloward-Piven “strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis”, and “[hastening] the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse”.
Today, Myrhaf cautions that we should remain skeptical of thinking Obama is “The Cloward-Piven Candidate“:
Simpson’s theory reminds me of the John Birch Society’s old ways of finding a communist conspiracy behind, well, everything. As Ayn Rand wrote, the Birchers don’t understand the role of philosophy. Those who hold the same philosophic premises will tend to want the same political policies. Those who do not understand the role of philosophy in man’s life think conspiracy theories are at work.
None of my reservations refute the idea that there are radical groups out there that want to replace capitalism with socialism. No question, these leftist radicals exist, they have infiltrated to the heart of the Democrat Party, and Obama has had connections with these groups all his life, starting with his hard-line communist father. But the goals and machinations of the radical left are not the fundamental explanation of America’s stumbling from crisis to crisis toward socialism. No, at the root of the problem is the philosophy of altruism, which leads to government intervention in the economy to help the “little guy,” and which — rather conveniently for the acolytes of Cloward-Piven — does not care if its programs make the world actually better. With altruism, intentions are always more important than results.
[My emphasis.]
Read the whole thing, and read the comments as well.
What I’m taking from this, aside from a bracing hand against my chest, preventing me from leaping off Conspiracy Cliff, is that McCain will not save us from socialism, either. He, too, has bought into the altruistic philosophy, as have most voters since FDR, and therefore the entire government. The debate is no longer whether or not, but how much and where.
This is extremely depressing: it means that we can’t expose the conspiracy, root it out, and save ourselves. It means that we’re swimming in it, that it’s endemic, that we ourselves are members.
That there may, in short, be no way out.
Slight clarification:
We’re not talking here about personal altruism, meaning you’re willing to help others at your own expense.
We’re talking about government altruism, meaning that you know who the disadvantaged are and what they need better than they themselves do, you’re going to give it to them whether they want it or not, and you’re willing to take as much money from everyone else as necessary to make it happen.
No good. No bueno por ca-ca.
Tags: Cloward-Piven. Myrhaf