Understanding the Liberal Mind Hive

Victor Davis Hanson has a new piece at Town Hall entitled "Would the Left Finally Explain the Inexplicable?" (H/t Instapundit). Most of the questions deal either with why would the Democrats let tens of millions of illegals cross the border and why trample the law and reputation of government and legal institutions to bring down Trump. For instance, in reference to the flood of illegal aliens:

    But why did Biden or his puppeteers do something so anarchic, so injurious to their fellow Americans?

    Why cost the nation hundreds of billions of dollars in massive new entitlements? Why swamp the social services of our own poor citizens?

    Why turn loose half a million criminal aliens and gang members to prey on our own weak and defenseless?

    Was the idea to alter the demography in one fell swoop? To grow the dependent class, thereby expanding government?

    Was it pure spite born of hatred of half the country?

    Was it to ensure future constituencies, given that the Democratic agenda no longer appeals to most Americans?

    Was it a globalist gambit to demonstrate borders are anachronistic?

There are probably lots of reasons--and I don't hold Republicans blameless either as they did the bidding of powerful commercial and agricultural interests who wanted the cheap labor and expensive housing--but one reason was to fundamentally transform the U.S. into a socialist state. In "Biden Era Was the Ultimate Application—and Utterly Predictable Failure—of the Cloward-Piven Strategy," Mark Tapscott explains:

    Put simply, Cloward-Piven said the way to force radical socialist reform of capitalistic America was to overwhelm the existing system by introducing so many participants that it collapses, thus creating political chaos, which Democrats then promise to end by enacting comprehensive and fundamental systemic changes. 

    If that formula — known ever since the Swinging Sixties as the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" (CPS) — sounds familiar despite its origins seven decades ago, it should, because Democrats are still using it. In fact, the four years of Joe Biden's titular presidency likely represent what amounted to the most sweeping application of CPS  ever attempted.

    Considered in this context, Biden's open border policy was pure CPS — removing every barrier to the entry of so many illegal immigrants coming into the country that Border Patrol and other immigration system personnel were reduced to little more than temporary escorts, housekeepers and travel agents.

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    Not only did Biden's open border policy all but shut down the immigration system, but the unregulated flood of illegal immigrants into major cities, including New York and Chicago, offered the additional benefit of threatening to overwhelm local law enforcement and human welfare systems.

And, per Tapscott, the Democrats are still pursuing this strategy. 

    Combine the idea that the greatest fear of government is that it (the government) might end with "never let a crisis go to waste" and you can see why government and the left, more generally, love to rule by crises. Each crisis results in more power taken from the people and given to government. Sometimes some of that power will return, although not willingly (e.g., at the end of WWII, the government was forced to give up price controls and rations coupons because people spontaneously tore up the ration booklets and no longer followed the price controls; but the government had planned on continuing those programs, at least for a short while). And bouncing from one crisis to the next keeps people off balance and never fully able to adjust and reflect on what just happened. Until one day you wake up in a Big Brother type society where you can't walk to the nearest store without being surveilled by dozens of cameras, your every move is tracked by electronic devices, you can't express thoughts not approved by censors, you have to show papers to travel most anywhere, and your children are propagandized to hate you.