Something to chew upon
hmm
Ever heard of the Cloward-Piven Strategy? Me neither.
[that’s just wingnut paranoia.... right? ...riiight?]
This appears to be Part II, or something sufficiently similar as to make no nevermind, though why it would be at American Thinker instead of at the original site, the InterToobs sayeth not.
Further digging [seeking the apparently as-yet-unwritten Part II to the above] led to this further description. In addition, The Delphi Technique is described.
I remember first hearing about the Delphi Technique a couplafew years ago from a well-meaning but slightly dingy acquaintance. She nodded at my skepticism [which I thought I had so carefully disguised] and said, “Just look for it. You’ll know it when you see it.”
And I saw it. In “Citizen Advisory Committees” [CAC] and even in rregular Planning Commission meetings. It’s subtle, and it’s very effective. Members of one CAC even admitted to one another in a public meeting that they really didn’t know what their goal or purpose was there—and they had been meeting for over a year, twice a month. And a month after that meeting, out came “their” report.
...to preserve the illusion that there is “…lay, or community, participation (in the decision-making process), while lay citizens were, in fact, being squeezed out."
They call ‘em/us “stakeholders” and seek their “input” at every turn in order to “achieve consensus.” Watch for those words and then pay close attention.
So please. Kick this around and tell me if I’ve been tragically naive? or am I becoming an over-stressed, delusional Child of the Black Helicopter* Brigade?
* and don’t even ask me about that story
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