>>9286715 Lazy Faggot faggit keeps getting it wrong.

>>9286710 FTA: It’s not hard to believe that some Democrats are rooting for the worst. It was just eight months ago that comedian Bill Maher said he hoped America would suffer a recession. “I really do,” he enthused. “We have survived many recessions. We can’t survive another Donald Trump term.”

Democrats had few cards to play regarding the economy prior to the pandemic. Unemployment was at a historic low for African Americans, women, and Hispanics. The numbers have since flipped. Unemployment now is at a historic high, dealing the Democrats back into the game. This November, it will be “It’s the economy, stupid” all over again.

Given the political advantages that accrue to the Democrats from a poorly performing economy, the question arises, “Are blue states extending lockdowns to purposely delay an economic recovery, as a means to unseat President Trump?

This may seem cruelly cynical, but far leftists once bankrupted New York City to try to enact their socialist agenda. The political strategy was crafted by socialist academics Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. New York City, at the time, was providing very generous welfare benefits, but not everyone who was eligible to receive them was enrolled. Cloward and Piven published an article explaining how this situation could be exploited to create a political crisis that “could lead to legislation for a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty.”

Far left activists embraced the strategy. Over the next several years, they boosted the number of single-parent households on welfare from 4.3 million to over 10.8 million. New York City could not afford the additional cost and was forced into bankruptcy in 1975.