I struggle remembering who came up with the concept of “overwhelming the system”: Cloward and Pivin or Saul Alinsky. The former pair came up with the idea. Here’s how writer David Horowitz summarizes the malicious concept:

“The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis: 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.”

In the process of a recent attempt to keep things straight, I found myself at a site featuring a September 2008 article written by James Simpson in The American Thinker.

Simpson vigorously warned 2008’s voters that Obama stood trained, primed and eager to use his position as president to “overwhelm the system.”

Simpson gave supporting evidence for his belief that, back in 2008, liberals planned to push for radical political change through a debilitating succession of orchestrated crises.

Considering the events of the intervening six years, this old article made for chilling reading. Prophetically, Simpson had it right. From Solyndra to Babies On The Border via Fast and Furious, Benghazi, IRS harassment et. al., Obama has orchestrated a series of mind-numbing crises, all while never missing a fundraiser or a chance to blame someone else — anyone else — for his country’s distress.

Reagan’s sunny conservatism remedied four years of Carter’s ruinous incompetence; it’ll take a leader of patriotism, vision and courage to remedy the eight years of Obama’s intentional damage.

Unfortunately, Netanyahu’s taken.

Leonard Hoy, Greenwood