Saturday, November 24, 2012

Cloward Pivening Benghazi & conservatives

  So I have a theory about what's going on with the many tall tales the current administration is telling about what actually happened in Benghazi when four Americans were murdered due to lack of action on the part of the people in charge.
  The principle of Cloward Piven is to overwhelm the system with financial demands that can never be met. This has already happened with the Obama welfare state: you know, all the free stuff this government is giving out and the trillions of dollars the Fed is printing.
  I believe what's happening with Benghazi is using the same approach; this administration is feeding so many farcical explanations, lies and feints into the public consciousness that we are overwhelmed. 
  You really can't believe any of the absurd stories being spun so why believe any of them?
  After a while, the average citizen simply tunes out, doesn't listen or question the absurdities anymore.
  And the press doesn't ask because they don't care and because they know the stories are so stupid no one will believe them anyway. 
  But mostly they don't care.
  These behaviors are part of a pattern, of course.
  We see it with the continual bombardment of "If you question (______), you are a racist/homophobe/sexist)" accusations that have overwhelmed public discourse to the point that any Black person/woman/homosexual in the administration can say anything with impunity, knowing that disagreement will be immediately crushed, swamped with all manner of scurrilous accusations and press conferences with said aggrieved "minorities" denouncing the morality of even questioning the integrity or truthfulness of any Black person/woman/homosexual in the administration.
  Cloward Piven at work, only applied politically rather than financially.
  Take, for example, the whole ridiculous contraception debate.
  If you'll recall, the topic was introduced by former Clinton official and NBC employee George Stephanopolous when he asked a puzzled Romney, out of the clear blue heavens, if he still beat his wife wanted to ban contraception.
  This opened the door to lots of public stage screaming about how mean Republicans are because they want to save babies' lives don't support free public abortion camps, the embarrassing Sandra Fluke episode and that horrible HBO person who claimed voting was like losing virginity.
  And it's not the first time this administration, which appears to pick its dummies spokespersons carefully, has sent someone like Rice out to state stupid controversial positions.
  Recall Hilary Rosen whose impeccable lesbian credentials entitle her to say anything who boldly proclaimed committed a political gaffe by declaring that Ann Romney hadn't worked a day in her life.
  In what was no gaffe, Rosen then retreated from the stage leaving Republicans to defend their nominee's wife, whose health problems and courage were suddenly insignificant compared to the supposition that, to be a real woman, a mother must be paid with dollars in addition to or rather than love.
  Soon Republicans were beating back suggestions that they (and their candidate) were stuck in the fifties when women worked at home as mothers didn't work and lived in a gauzy, unreal Pleasantville that should never be replicated again because of its stifling bigotry and rigidity.
  What I'm suggesting is that the Obamabots have entered into a Cloward Piven approach in rhetoric and press releases.
  Overwhelm the system and you won't have to actually articulate the truth or, as we have so far seen, face reality.
  There's a limitation to this sort of philosophy. The economic goal of Cloward Piven is to establish a minimum guaranteed income for everyone, ultimately relieving anyone of the tiresome task of taking responsibility for one's own life.
  The limitation is obvious.
  As even liberal progressive evangelical Tony Campolo might say, it's Friday now.
  But Sunday's comin.'
  Oh, Sunday's comin.'

1 comment:

  1. I like your Piven analogy. This administration carpet bombs us with deception, not just on Benghazi but on every issue. They are fully aware that it takes longer to refute a falsehood than to advance a falsehood. As we refute their lies, they move on to another subject and promote newer, fresher lies.

    The only solution I can see is for Republicans/Conservatives/Tea Partiers to change their relationship with the media. Cease all communications with the national media and utilize social networking to spread the word without Obamamedia input.

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