The New York Post posted an article today with the headline, “Progressives unveil new agenda to pressure Joe Biden to the left.” First of all, does anyone thing Joe Biden has the intestinal fortitude to stand up to pressure from the left wing of his party–particularly when his running made is part of that left wing?

The following information is from oathkeepers:

Cloward-Piven is a strategy first proposed in 1966 and named after  Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven (both longtime members of the Democratic Socialists of America, where Piven today is an honorary chair), the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

…The authors noted that the number of Americans subsisting on welfare — about 8 million, at the time — probably represented less than half the number who were technically eligible for full benefits. They proposed a “massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls.”  Cloward and Piven calculated that persuading even a fraction of potential welfare recipients to demand their entitlements would bankrupt the system. The result, they predicted, would be “a profound financial and political crisis” that would unleash “powerful forces … for major economic reform at the national level.”

Their article called for “cadres of aggressive organizers” to use “demonstrations to create a climate of militancy.” Intimidated by threats of black violence, politicians would appeal to the federal government for help. Carefully orchestrated media campaigns, carried out by friendly, leftwing journalists, would float the idea of “a federal program of income redistribution,” in the form of a guaranteed living income for all — working and non-working people alike. Local officials would clutch at this idea like drowning men to a lifeline. They would apply pressure on Washington to implement it. With every major city erupting into chaos, Washington would have to act.

Fast forward to  “”The Working Families Party’s “People’s Charter,”” introduced yesterday. The article at The New York Post states, “Eight members of Congress — including AOC, Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) — are backing the program.”

Some highlights from the Charter:

Eliminate restrictive local zoning rules that keep housing and schools segregated by race and class. Aid Black families, and other people of color harmed by redlining in buying homes.

Translated that means the end of the single-family home in the suburbs.

Raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour everywhere.

Sounds good, but will result in the loss of jobs and the loss of employment opportunities for teenagers just entering the workforce.

Make health care free and universal and take hospital and health insurance profits out of it.

When companies, doctors and hospitals don’t make profits, they go into another field. Unfortunately, a profit motive will eventually increase the quality of any product. Taking away a profit motive does not produce a quality product.

The Charter continues:

• Provide safe, affordable housing for all. 

• Guarantee home and community based services for everyone, including mental health care. 

• Cancel student debt, an unfair burden on working and middle class young adults.

• Tax the giant corporations who don’t pay their share, and the wealth of the billionaires, who have gotten richer during the worst economic collapse in 90 years.

It sounds wonderful, but it would collapse the American economy (as desired). Just for the record, if student debt is cancelled, someone will pay it. Are you asking Americans who didn’t go to college to pay the debt of those who did?

Please share this article. Americans need to know what they are voting for. These policies will advance the Cloward-Piven Strategy and move us closer to socialism and the end of the freedom that we currently have. We all need to remember that there is no free lunch.