Cloward, Piven, And Zinn Told Us They Wanted To Bankrupt America
... In retrospect, the growth under Reagan was unprecedented, rising about 184% during his eight years, more than double that of Nixon and Ford combined (as a percent), four times that of Carter in one term, not to mention five times Clinton, and more than double Bush and Obama combined...
... the border wall they [Democrats] promised Reagan in 1986 in exchange for his granting amnesty to 2.7 million illegal aliens. The illegals got amnesty, but Reagan never got the promised wall...
... In 1989, the $2.7 trillion National Debt worked out to about $11,500 per American. Today, at $40 trillion, that number has jumped to about $116,000 per person...
Worse still is the pool of “unfunded liabilities,” mostly Social Security and Medicare. In 1989, such liabilities sat at approximately $4 trillion, or about $17,000 per American. Today, unfunded liabilities sit at approximately $130 trillion, or…about $250,000 per person...
We are largely here... because of three people: Richard Cloward, Frances Fox Piven, and Howard Zinn… and the tens of millions of useful idiots who believe their ideas.
Cloward and Piven authored the Cloward–Piven strategy. At its most fundamental level, the 1966 strategy is a roadmap for destroying the United States as a free-market, capitalist society and turning it into a “socialist” nirvana...
Specifically, the goal was to collapse the federal government by overwhelming it with welfare and redistribution obligations. Doing so, in turn, would create a permanent dependency class that could be counted on to vote Democrat for basically forever..
In 1980, he [Zinn] published A People’s History of the United States, possibly the most cancerous history of America that’s ever been written. For him, America is a history driven by a tyranny of whites over everyone else, men over women, and the rich over the poor...
Make no mistake, communists like Mamdani, AOC, and El-Sayed are simply executing the Cloward, Piven, and Zinn playbook...
... I recommend Paul Johnson’s A History of the American People and Harold Evans’ They Made America...