Posted by Tina
Apparently Glenn Beck recently interviewed Stanley Kurtz, author of the new book, Radical in Chief. I didn’t see the program but as Kurtz explains in this article at National Review, a portion of that interview involved the influence of Francis Fox Piven on contemporary leftist strategies and how these strategies drove the left following the tragic shootings in Tucson. A link within that article highlights recent remarks by Piven in The Nation regarding joblessness and what the masses should do to press for greater government involvement:
…The initiatives that would be responsive to the needs of the unemployed will require federal action. Local protests have to accumulate and spread–and become more disruptive–to create serious pressures on national politicians. An effective movement of the unemployed will have to look something like the strikes and riots that have spread across Greece in response to the austerity measures forced on the Greek government by the European Union, or like the student protests that recently spread with lightning speed across England in response to the prospect of greatly increased school fees. ** A loose and spontaneous movement of this sort could emerge. It is made more likely because unemployment rates are especially high among younger workers. Protests by the unemployed led by young workers and by students, who face a future of joblessness, just might become large enough and disruptive enough to have an impact in Washington. There is no science that predicts eruption of protest movements. Who expected the angry street mobs in Athens or the protests by British students? Who indeed predicted the strike movement that began in the United States in 1934, or the civil rights demonstrations that spread across the South in the early 1960s? We should hope for another American social movement from the bottom–and then join it. (emphasis mine)
This woman is not calling for peaceful protest to petition government but for “disruptive”, “angry” “mobs” led by “students” and “the young”. The left has always exploited young skulls full of mush to further their cause of centralized government control. They are much easier to manipulate and control. They have also favored violence and disruption…chaos!
The move to silence the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and others and yes, Glenn Beck and Stanley Kurtz, will only reach screechy highs, and possibly violent protest, as we move toward 2012. The extreme left never competes, they attempt to destroy. Expect the thug tactics of the extreme left to tick up as 2012 looms; if all goes according to plan there will be riots in the streets. Pray that calmer heads and civility prevail.
Piven really says how she feels in the below video. Be sure to watch to the end. Priceless!
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/insidious-scary-frances-fox-piven-answers-glenn-beck/
This woman is 78 years old, has no political power, and she has you trembling in your boots.
She’s also received several death threats as a direct result of Beck’s weird obsession with her.
http://www.ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/ccr-appeals-fox-news-president-help-silencing-glenn-beck-misinformation-camp
Get a grip on reality, you guys.
Chris: “This woman is 78 years old, has no political power…”
The woman is not the problem; her ideas are the problem. Her “influence” (not power) will continue for as long as the so-called “have nots” believe big government is the answer to their problems and the means to an end. Her book is still influencing young men and women. From the AFLCIO webpage:
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/review/
“I believe that Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward’s Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare, first released in 1971, is perhaps one of the most important books to read for anyone trying to understand the relationships between welfare policy, poverty and coerced labor. Piven and Cloward expose how welfare policy not only does not give poor people “relief” from poverty, but forces them to accept low-wage, exploitative, dead-end jobs. – Grace Chang, Oakland, Calif., writer, activist and mother of two, and author of Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy; co-editor of Mothering: Ideology, Experience, and Agency; and author of essays and articles on immigrant women and work that have appeared in Radical America, Socialist Review and the anthology Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminist Breathes Fire.
“she has you trembling in your boots.”
Chris come on…trembling? Are you really going to try to sell your position with such tripe?
The point is to expose the wrongheaded thinking that drives the democrat Party. The woman above sees a problem with the welfare state but thanks to Pliven and others she actually believes that she is being coerced into keeping a low paying job. Nothing in her statement puts her in a position of power within her own life…she has been trained to think like a helpless victim. OUTRAGEOUS!!!
The “reality” is that this woman could take charge of her future herself any time she wants but she has been conditioned to expect government or the union to alter her financial situation.
Chris businesses have jobs to offer people. Take them or leave them. They are not there to make sure their employees achieve some level of wealth. That is up to each individual person. They can do it by planning, education, training, saving, and investing in their own futures. It usually requires a level of sacrifice for a time but people do it all the time.