The Cloward-Piven Strategy is alive and well

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Sam Wilks offers a tidy synopsis of what’s going on:

The Hidden Hand: How Bureaucrats and Politicians Use Cloward-Piven to Maintain Power

Throughout history, the ruling elite have sought to consolidate power through an age-old strategy, they create a crisis, expand government control, and ensure dependency. This method has been refined into a systematic approach known as the Cloward-Piven strategy in the 1960s, an intentional overloading of social and economic systems to necessitate state intervention. By creating artificial scarcity, over-regulation, and economic instability, bureaucrats and politicians justify their own necessity, ensuring that the public remains reliant on their policies rather than on free-market solutions.

This is not accidental, nor an unintended consequence.

This is also why 22 states (including, of course, Connecticut) have sued to block the Trump administration’s demand for the identity, including social security numbers, of food stamp recipients. Already, just from a partial examination of data supplied by the handful of states who have complied auditors have uncovered 183,000 dead people receiving benefits and 500,000 collecting at least two payments a month. That’s without being able to look at the books, so far, of the 22 resisting states, including California and Minnesota.