(Tony Sifert, Headline USA) Leftist politicians are poised to take advantage of rising food prices and skyrocketing fertilizer costs to implement radical economic changes at the national level, following the “Cloward-Piven” strategy set out by American sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven in a 1966 article in The Nation.
In their article, Cloward and Piven called for a “series of welfare drives in large cities” that would overwhelm the welfare system, causing “severe political strains” that would lead to the breakdown of state and local government and the impoverishment of the middle and working classes.
It’s the Cloward-Piven Strategy. The whole system is being overloaded in every conceivable way.
— Doug Mainwaring (@doug_mainwaring) February 3, 2022
Only when the majority of the nation was “fully integrated” by poverty, Cloward and Piven wrote, could the ruling class find the political will to implement “major economic reforms at the national level,” in particular “a guaranteed annual income” for all Americans as well as the introduction of a kind of martial law.
The “crisis tactics” of the Coward-Piven strategy, in other words, goes one step beyond the Obama administration’s infamous “never allow a crisis to go to waste” line in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, which Obama chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel has since reprised in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2022 there are crises aplenty — not least the war between Russia and the Ukraine — and an expected rise in food prices leading to global shortages may be the most serious.
In an interview with Just the News, Georgia Republican Rep. Austin Scott warned Americans that there is a “tremendous potential for food shortage globally, because of all of the trade in the Black Sea being shut down.”
Scott has asked the Pentagon “to look into what a 5% reduction in the global food supply looks like from the standpoint of geopolitical unrest,” Just the News reported.
Rep. @AustinScottGA08 tells me and @AmandaHead that trade disruptions tied to #Russia’s aggression has “a tremendous potential for food shortage globally.”
Watch more #JustTheNewsNotNoise here: https://t.co/1gRPMA0g2a pic.twitter.com/wzo5L1DM8S— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) March 14, 2022
In a March 3 interview with Tucker Carlson, Ben Riensche of Blue Diamond Farming said that “soaring fertilizer prices are likely to bring spiked food prices.”
“The number one thing is natural gas,” Riensche told Carlson. “But what’s really affecting us are things that could have been prevented.”
“This could kind of be described as the food crisis of the Green New Deal,” he continued. “Policies that have made us more dependent on foreign energy . . . but the kingpin in this . . . is this action that has been taken by the International Trade Commission, the tariffs that they put in place creating monopolies that we can’t buy from friendly parties that have a third of the supplies.”
It can’t have been for nothing that Jeffrey Epstein pal Bill Gates purchased 242,000 acres of American farmland.
It’s not because he loves the good country people.
The proper move here is to confiscate the farmland Bill Gates owns and use it for a new homestead act. Enough land for refugees and young Americans alike to become organic regenerative farmers.
— Dr. Benjamin Braddock (@GraduatedBen) February 24, 2022
