Leftists double down on this idea when they support turning welfare offices into voter registration centers. It is a subversive, antisocial act, as I argued in my recent American Thinker op-ed, "Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American."
That's why Richard Cloward, Frances Fox Piven, ACORN, and a host of other left-wing, Saul Alinsky-inspired community organizing outfits were so delighted with the Motor-Voter law signed into law in 1993 by President Bill Clinton. These activists wanted to encourage welfare dependency and grow government. Even worse, they wished to foment revolution, or more precisely, counter-revolution. They knew that getting welfare recipients to vote in great numbers was one way to stoke the flames.
In my op-ed I argued that it is destructive to register welfare recipients to vote so that they can vote themselves more government benefits. It is even worse that our tax dollars are used to register welfare recipients to vote while at welfare offices. It is a policy that would cause the Founding Fathers to roll over in their graves.
As I report in my book, Subversion Inc., Cloward and Piven, who were small-c communists (not "liberals" as many in the media would have you believe), said so fairly explicitly, or at least as clearly as verbose academics could. They said "massive numbers of new voters" had to be registered.
[E]nlisting millions of new and politicized voters is the way to create an electoral environment hospitable to fundamental change in American society. An enlarged and politicized electorate will sustain and encourage the movements in American society that are already working for the rights of women and minorities, for the protection of the social programs, and for transformation of foreign policy. Equally important, an enlarged and politicized electorate will foster and protect future mass movements from the bottom that the ongoing economic crisis is likely to generate, thus opening American politics to solutions to the economic crisis that express the interests of the lower strata of the population ... The objective is to accelerate the dealigning forces already at work in American politics, and to promote party realignment along class lines.
In other words, Cloward and Piven wanted to promote class warfare in order to tear asunder America as we know it. They wanted to use the "weight" of the poor to destroy the American constitutional republic. Encouraging those who live at the expense of others to vote for politicians who want to give them more unearned benefits is an excellent way to bring down the existing order.
This is not a call to extinguish the voting rights of anybody, as Rick Hasen of Election Law Blog, and a chorus of shrieking leftists contend. This is a call for Americans to reconsider the wisdom of voter registration drives and registering welfare recipients to vote at welfare offices.
But leftists will continue to shriek. That's what they do best.
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America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.
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Of course, nothing that you've typed is, in any way, "shrieking."
ReplyDeleteCheck your eye for beams before bringing up the motes you fantasize in other's eyes.
And stop lying about what you really meant.
I wrote what I meant and I meant what I wrote.
ReplyDeleteOnerous voting requirements are the hallmark of juntas in banana republics - those who applaud them are showing their true colors.
ReplyDeleteMost folks outside the US would find the requirement to re-register for each & every election ridiculous if not bordering on criminal. I had to register once, & now only need to show ID or recent mail to my address on voting day.
The only "massive voter fraud" in the US I know of was the GOP using (illegal) vote-kiting to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters (nearly all of them blacks) in 2004 ... a crime that resulted in exactly zero convictions. Sorry, but ACORN filing legally mandatory submissions of registrations for "Donald Duck" or "Mickey Mouse" that are then thrown out don't really pass the laugh test, irony notwithstanding.
PS: After decades of obscurity, suddenly I've begun to hear much online praise for the tactics of Saul Alinsky in the last few years, as set out in "Rules For Radicals" - all of it from conservatives, none of it from liberals.
I wrote what I meant and I meant what I wrote.
ReplyDeleteYeah, you did. And for that you should be shunned by civilized people everywhere.
The supreme irony is that I'm sure you consdier yourself to be one of the "producers" without whom the country would cease to function. Yet you "produce" something that is not in short supply - BS. You like to think of yourself as a deep-thinking conservative "philosopher" when in actuality, you're a lowbrow propagandist riding the wingnut welfare gravy train.
ReplyDeleteGo on and go Galt, and let's see how long it takes for the withholding of your "productivity" to bring the nation to its knees. I'm guessing that will be never.
This is not a call to extinguish the voting rights of anybody
ReplyDeleteWhyever not? The founding fathers designed the US constitution to work only with high-value citizens directing the path of government.
The first major country to give in to "universal franchise" - i.e. welfare voters - was The USSR - indeed the universal franchise is the absolute foundation of communism.
The Tea Party's move to restore the original, unamended constitution will thankfully remove all the vestiges of communism from the US disaster of the 1960s-1980s. Reagan started the job, but it falls to this generation to finish it, and if not the "extinction of the right to vote" then at least not extending the franchise to any more indigents, unionists, D'RATS, welfare queens etc is absolutely required to return good government to These United States, as designed by the founding fathers.
A good point. Vadum's article accurately illustrates the problem, but lacks the courage of convictions to advocate the proper solution.
ReplyDeleteSimply not registering the poor doesn't go far enough- there will still be thousands of non-productive members of society who have already been registered by ACORN.
In order to prevent the uneducated and poor from exercising the franchise, we should implement poll taxes and literacy tests. It's the only truly "American" solution.
Once again, a Republican's pronouncements make perfect sense when you consider the concept of "projection".
ReplyDeleteThey declare working-class people "unproductive" and want to disenfranchise them because they fear that one day we will figure out that it is the managerial class who are "unproductive", and disenfranchise them.
They're wrong, of course. All we really want is the one-man, one-vote system that we were promised, rather than our current one-million-dollars-one-vote system.
Defense contractors have ripped off the U.S. taxpayer for orders of magnitude more money than the poor get in benefits. Shall we deny them the franchise? I'd be happy with denying them the ability to buy politicians.
ReplyDeleteThe below is a particularly idiotic comment. In my American Thinker op-ed I argued that providing a subsidy to welfare recipients by registering them to vote at welfare offices is wrong and destructive. However, obstacles should not be erected to prevent people from voting. Requiring photo ID is hardly an obstacle.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
A good point. Vadum's article accurately illustrates the problem, but lacks the courage of convictions to advocate the proper solution.
Simply not registering the poor doesn't go far enough- there will still be thousands of non-productive members of society who have already been registered by ACORN.
In order to prevent the uneducated and poor from exercising the franchise, we should implement poll taxes and literacy tests. It's the only truly "American" solution.
September 4, 2011 7:18 PM