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26 Feb 2020
Alex Jones fabricated a claim that Democrats do not work and adopted the Cloward-Piven strategy to overload the economy with migrants and welfare.

So the issue is that, like, Dems want the market to collapse. Oh, the Dems. Because Democrats don't work. Okay. There are no Democrats working. Okay. The average Democrat does not work. Or they're a tenured professor or government employee show. Or we don't have any money. If they can hurt the free market economy. And then turn people against the nationalist Trump, they'll do it in a heartbeat. In fact, that's what Cloward and Piven's all about. Just one of the communist plans by a U.S. university that was adopted by the Democrats back in the 80s publicly. They said we want to overload the economy with migrants and with welfare and with people having all sorts of rights that don't exist, like to have a comfort pony. The rights that don't exist. That's a real thing. Or a comfort pelican. That's a real thing on the airplane with you. While China doesn't even have any environmental standards or regulations, So we've discussed Cloward and Piven in the past, and it's not what Alex is describing. No. It's not really a plan as much as it is an analysis. These two professors were making the argument that financial hardship was far worse in our country than the statistics we're able to capture, and that a lot of the American public were suffering through things, even though relief was available to them. Part of what allows our system to continue the way it has is the illusion that most people are doing okay. And one thing that would shatter that illusion is if everyone in this country who was eligible for social welfare programs collected on what they were eligible for. This would lead to an overloading of the welfare system, and from that, with the scope of the real problem clear to see, the government would be inclined to finally eliminate poverty by instituting a guaranteed income for citizens. This plan was obviously not adopted by the Democratic Party in the 80s, considering that it was written in 1966 and we don't have anything resembling guaranteed income, and the candidate who was running on UBI, Andrew Yang, has already dropped out of the race. Alex doesn't understand Cloward and Piven, but he knows the name and he knows that his audience is not going to look into it enough to recognize that he's just making shit up. As far as I can tell, Alex is just making up the claim that Democrats don't work. I'd be interested to see where he's getting that from, because from everything I can tell, it's a completely fabricated stat.