Occupy Astroturf

It is ironic that, as the President predictably endorses the violent, odiferous Occupy Astroturf movement, the demand was emitted for a trillion dollars to be spent repairing the environment. I knew they were disgusting, but in such few numbers their impact can’t be that bad.

Some commentators have noted the irony of these dedicated and sincere foot soldiers of the Left decrying Wall Street while lauding Wall Street’s most notorious hired gun (which they, again ironically, share with Big Labor), Barack Hussein Obama.

The real irony, of course, is in the pundits’ own failure to recognize the classic third year of a Cloward-Piven Presidency. Destroy the financials, crash the job market, focus the grassroots discontent on capitalist institutions. (Whoops. The actual grassroots came out early to oppose the whole mess. When the Left sent their bully boys to shut down the protest and laugh the Tea Party out of town, they were met by two million Tea Partiers on the Mall. They were impotent.)

James Simpson, at American Thinker, gets full kudos for recognizing the Cloward-Piven threat emanating pre-Tea Party from then candidate Barack Hussein Obama. As he wrote Cassandra-like in September 2008:

America waits with bated breath while Washington struggles to bring the U.S. economy back from the brink of disaster. But many of those same politicians caused the crisis, and if left to their own devices will do so again.

Despite the mass media news blackout, a series of books, talk radio and the blogosphere have managed to expose Barack Obama’s connections to his radical mentors — Weather Underground bombers William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis and others. David Horowitz and his Discover the Networks.org have also contributed a wealth of information and have noted Obama’s radical connections since the beginning.

Yet, no one to my knowledge has yet connected all the dots between Barack Obama and the Radical Left. When seen together, the influences on Obama’s life comprise a who’s who of the radical leftist movement, and it becomes painfully apparent that not only is Obama a willing participant in that movement, he has spent most of his adult life deeply immersed in it.

But even this doesn’t fully describe the extreme nature of this candidate. He can be tied directly to a malevolent overarching strategy that has motivated many, if not all, of the most destructive radical leftist organizations in the United States since the 1960s.

Simpson's Map: From Alinsky to Cloward-Piven to Barack Hussein Obama

The Cloward-Piven strategy, first published in the Nation in 1966, is described as follows on David Horowitz’s Discover the Networks:

First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven (both longtime members of the Democratic Socialists of America, where Piven today is an honorary chair), the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

Inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black district of Watts in Los Angeles (which erupted after police had used batons to subdue a black man suspected of drunk driving), Cloward and Piven published an article titled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty” in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation. Following its publication, The Nation sold an unprecedented 30,000 reprints. Activists were abuzz over the so-called “crisis strategy” or “Cloward-Piven Strategy,” as it came to be called. Many were eager to put it into effect.

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 can advance only when “the rest of society is afraid of them,” Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970. Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation; poor people would rise in revolt; only then would “the rest of society” accept their demands.

David Horowitz himself was born into the Radical Left and knows them better than any outsider. David’s book, Radical Son, is an intellectual autobiography describing his journey from a mother’s milk sixties radical to an eighties Reaganite conservative.

Today I encounter educated, politically aware 20-somethings who have drifted into despair. They see that there is a real 20% unemployment rate and a shrinking job market. Not good news for those seeking jobs to support themselves for the first time. Despite a healthy cynicism for Barack Hussein Obama and his policies, the grimness of the situation is daunting for them, it appears to them that decline and poverty are inevitable.

What the Democrats have given us today, in attempting to conjure the perfect storm with these ugly, lawless protests, is a vision of the America they are creating for us. Where once Americans worked by the sweat of their brow, where Herman Cain’s father was able to find three jobs to work and imbue his son with the passion to succeed, the new process is to send mercenary protestors to crap on police cars, harass passersby, hold cultish repeat-after-me indoctrination sessions, and demand, demand, demand.

Props to Denver, the good people of the Mile-High City have not taken as long as others to get their fill of the intimidator wannabes. They are collapsing tents and performing regular sweeps to clear the parks. The box lunches for the astroturf from the LA City Council has spoken unintended volumes on the depth of political and civic breakdown in California.

The celebrity support has resulted in hilarious pieces on the obvious links between the glitterati and the corporations through lucrative endorsement contracts. Nothing amuses quite like the casual hypocrisies of the rich and glamorous. (Glamor being a fake attractiveness, as that put on by a fairy in a folk tale to seduce the unwary.) Who knows. Maybe someday some star will actually sever their corporate lifeline on principle. But, of course, the real principle is that they don’t want astroturf hoodlums harassing them the way they have been planning to go after certain billionaires.

A nationalized auto industry, a command driven health care market (driven into crisis by hideous law-making to assure government rescue by single-payer down the road), a housing crisis driven by mortgages let for political gain under political pressure rather than for profit by sober bankers, dozens of mercenaries in slow burn rioting in a handful of cities with the endorsement of nanny Pelosi and Barack Hussein Obama. Want a job? Apply to our only growth industry. Government is hiring.

This is the vision. This is why the astroturf. By 2016, the plan will see the American Dream will be a faded image, derided by the usual cynics as never having existed at all. Even now, the veterans of ACORN, under new flags, are moving into position to make 2012 a Democrat year.

The cool thing about Occupy Astroturf is that it smells as bad as the rest of the offering.

Tea Parties across the nation are taking counter-action today. If you are not active in the Tea Party yet, now would be a good time to go and introduce yourself. See what you might contribute to help us provide a real chance for the American Dream to our children.

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