Overloading the Healthcare System with Illegals - The Cloward-Piven Strategy
- Rayne
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The Cloward-Piven Strategy—outlined in 1966 by leftist sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven—isn't just an academic exercise in welfare reform but rather a blueprint for engineered societal collapse, designed to dismantle America’s capitalist foundations and replace them with centralized socialist control. The core tactic - flood public systems with unsustainable demands until they buckle, creating chaos that justifies radical government overreach. This isn't accidental; it's a weaponized playbook used by progressives to erode self-reliance, balloon debt, and entrench dependency, ultimately paving the way for universal basic income (socialism). Today, we see this playing out in live time through unchecked illegal immigration overwhelming the healthcare system—a tactic that exploits compassion to bankrupt resources meant for citizens.
Core Mechanics of the Strategy
Cloward and Piven's original plan targeted welfare: Mobilize the poor to enroll en masse in existing programs, straining budgets and bureaucracies to expose "flaws" and force a crisis. The overload would spark unrest, fiscal meltdown, and political panic, compelling the federal government to step in with sweeping reforms like guaranteed income for all. Let’s call this what it is, manipulative class warfare—turning entitlements into a loyalty racket where beneficiaries become a permanent voters for big-government Democrats. It preys on human nature: Promise "justice" to the masses while quietly shifting power from individuals and states to Washington elites.
The beauty (from a leftist view) or horror (from a conservative one) is its self-perpetuating design:
Mass Mobilization: Use activism to flood the system legally or semi-legally.
Crisis Amplification: Media and NGOs hype the "humanitarian" angle to guilt-trip opposition.
Collapse and Rebuild: When systems fail, blame capitalism; propose socialism as the "fix."
Dependency Lock-In: New beneficiaries owe their survival to the state, ensuring electoral dominance.
This isn't hyperbole—Piven herself has praised modern figures like AOC for echoing these tactics in recent years.
Application to Illegal Immigration: The Border as the New Welfare Frontline
Biden-Harris era's border policies, with lax enforcement and "catch-and-release"—aren't incompetence or compassion. They're a turbocharged Cloward-Piven rollout, importing millions of illegals to overload every taxpayer-funded system at once. Instead of the 1960s' door-to-door welfare drives, it's a global call: Flyers in Central America promising free everything, sanctuary cities as magnets, and NGOs busing/flying illegals to swing states. The goal? Turn red-leaning areas blue by sheer numbers, while crashing infrastructure so "reforms" can be demanded.
Numbers Game: Over 200,000 illegal entries monthly under Biden, many funneled into welfare-adjacent programs like emergency Medicaid or food assistance for "unaccompanied minors" (often not minors at all). This echoes Cloward-Piven's enrollment surge, but scaled up: Birthright citizenship abuse doubles the load via anchor babies, creating instant citizen chains.
Electoral Weapon: Counting non-citizens in the Census boosts Democratic House seats and electoral votes—Biden's Day One reversal of Trump's executive order ensured this. Future amnesty? Instant 20-30 million new voters, per conservative estimates, locking in one-party rule.
Economic Sabotage: Illegals depress wages for working Americans (e.g., 2024 wage stagnation in construction and service sectors) while spiking housing costs—classic induced scarcity to inflame resentment and increase demands for more government "help."
The facilitated invasion via illegals was engineered to replace "misbehaving" American voters with “grateful” dependents, funded by printing money, devaluing the dollar, ushering in its inevitable collapse. This is replacement theory in action, weakening national sovereignty in favor of globalist one-world governance.
The Healthcare Blowout: From Emergency Rooms to Full Entitlement
Healthcare is ground zero for this overload. Illegal immigrants are barred from full Medicaid or ACA subsidies, but they access emergency care under EMTALA (1986 law)—unreimbursed costs hitting $20-40 billion annually, per FAIR estimates. States like California and New York extend state-funded coverage to “undocumented” adults, adding billions more. The result? ERs are turned into de facto free clinics with wait times exploding for citizens, and rural hospitals closing.
The Overload: Illegals arrive with untreated conditions, straining systems already blown-out by Obamacare. Conservatives point to recent shutdown fights: Democrats blocking funding unless it restores "alien Medicaid eligibility," potentially costing $200 billion over a decade—enough to fund CHIP twice over.
The Crisis Pipeline: Flood ERs → Skyrocketing uncompensated care → Hospital bankruptcies → Public outcry → Push for "universal" fixes like Medicare for All, where everyone (including 30+ million new dependents) gets cradle-to-grave coverage. It's fiscal scorched earth: Taxpayers foot the bill now, but post-collapse, it's rationed socialist care—long waits, denied treatments, like Canada's system on steroids.
The Endgame: Universal healthcare as the "guaranteed income" of medicine. This creates a subservient and dependent class out of the illegals who will vote for Democrats to ensure they keep receiving their freebies/benefits, while the middle class vanishes under taxes/debt.
This isn't policy failure; it's asymmetric warfare on America and her citizens. Globalists (Soros-funded NGOs, UN migration pacts) amplify it, using "equity" rhetoric to shame those of us who want secure borders as racists. Meanwhile, Americans wait months for specialists while ERs triage illegals; veterans die on waitlists as necessary funding for their care is diverted.
Piven's own words—"make the most of [the crisis]"—fuel the fire. The antidote? Secure borders, defund sanctuary cities/policies, and repeal EMTALA expansions. Expose the strategy publicly— It’s neo-Marxism in illegal immigrant clothing—overload, panic, destroy, replace.
Wake up, America: This is how freedom falls, one "compassionate" crisis at a time.
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