"Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on
registering the poor to vote?" Vadum asks.
"Because they know the poor can be counted on to vote themselves more
benefits by electing redistributionist politicians. Welfare recipients are
particularly open to demagoguery and bribery."
"Registering them to vote is like handing out burglary
tools to criminals," he continues. "It is profoundly antisocial and
un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy
the country-- which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports
registering welfare recipients to vote. ... Encouraging those who burden
society to participate in elections isn't about helping the poor. It's about
helping the poor to help themselves to others' money."
Vadum goes on to claim that "registering the
unproductive to vote is an idea that was heavily promoted by the small-c
communists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven" -- and if that assertion
sounds suspiciously like the similar theories involving Cloward and Piven
promoted by Glenn Beck, it is no coincidence.
Vadum describes himself in his Twitter profile as "Glenn Beck's tutor
on the Left," and the description accompanying a video uploaded by Vadum
to YouTube this July states,
"Glenn Beck learned about the 'Cloward-Piven Strategy' of orchestrated
crisis for the first time ever when he interviewed Matthew Vadum, an expert on
left-wing pressure groups, on Fox News on May 13, 2009."
Two years ago, Raw Story reported on
the agenda of the Capital
Research Center
The idea of starving the Democratic Party of donations by
defunding the progressive non-profits that form a central pillar of its support
is not new. It goes back to at least 1981, when the Heritage Foundation
published a set of over 2000 policy recommendations for the Reagan
administration. ... The Capital Research Center (CRC) was founded in 1984 by a
former Heritage Foundation vice president to implement this agenda by
uncovering the presumably questionable funding sources of progressive groups.
"Currently, CRC senior editor Matthew Vadum -- who
describes himself as 'America's foremost expert on the Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN' -- seems to be carrying much of the weight
of the anti-ACORN campaign through his blog, Twitter feed, and frequent
appearances with Glenn Beck and other right-wing TV hosts.
"Last May, Vadum told Beck, 'ACORN is an immense crime
family ... that has tentacles all though the United
States , and now it's trying to spread to India and Canada
"'Something that needs to be explored is the roots of
ACORN in the 1960s,' Vadum continued. 'It grew out of the radical welfare
rights movement. And the idea behind that was that not enough people were on
welfare and that you needed to pack the welfare rolls with as many people as
possible in order to overwhelm the governments -- the various levels of
government -- and cause social chaos.'"
Vadum's latest attack on the poor appears to be the natural
extension of that same agenda. "Cloward and Piven's long campaign to bring
vast numbers of unproductive people into the political process culminated in
the 1993 enactment of the Motor-Voter law," he writes. "That law
turned welfare offices into voter registration centers and encouraged nonprofit
groups to conduct registration drives. It also opened the door to massive voter
fraud. ... As Benjamin Franklin supposedly said, 'When the people find that
they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.' With
the help of Cloward, Piven, Alinsky, and Obama, we're well on our way."
So that means he does not want the poor to have voting rights, so what about the young and the college students? What is his thoughts of minorities? Also, where is the left media and blogs on exposing this yokel to the whole world and make him defend those extremist views in open public forums instead of just on right wing shows like Fox News and others. Ask the republican candidates if they support these views and if they unhesitatingly disavow them.
ReplyDeleteThey disavow them because rule number one in politics is: Deny the truth for it will cost you votes but always maintain the fight to bring it to fruition behind the scenes. The people will believe whatever you tell them and those that don't, who needs 'em; the sleepers outnumber the awake a thousand fold.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with you on all accounts there, but it is really not fair to the american people to allow their elected officials and representatives both from local, state and ederal leverls to get or atain that much power of them (us). It is high time we really do throw the bums out and replace them with people who mean what they say about community and family, not corporate interests and bottom line profits of common sense. I personally believe that God is getting fed up with what he is seeing on a daily basis and he is warning us to stop hurting his people and his world all in the name of money, greed and power.
ReplyDeleteAh but that is the crux...some of these people claim to represent God...we are indeed in troubled times
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