Do you ever look around and think, “There’s no way all of this is just incompetence”?
The runaway spending, the bloated welfare state, the constant expansion of government into every corner of life—it all seems too perfectly chaotic to be accidental.
And of course, it isn’t. It’s a tale as old as time.
Back in 1966, two radical sociologists—Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven—outlined a strategy that aimed to collapse the American system on purpose. Their idea was simple: overwhelm the government with so many demands—welfare, war, social programs—that it would buckle under the pressure.
And once it all came crashing down they had the “perfect” solution. They believed the people would rise up and demand a new system… preferably one that looked a whole lot more like socialism.
Lovely.
Fast-forward to today and it looks like things are shaping up exactly like they’d hoped.
We’re $36 trillion in debt. Cities are crumbling under the weight of their own bad policies. Millions of people are dependent on government programs that politicians promise will never run dry (spoiler alert: they will). And instead of actually solving any of it, our so-called leaders just keep printing money, growing the bureaucracy, and pushing policies that make everything worse.
What separates us from others is that we recognize that this isn’t a bug in the system. It’s the entire point of the system.
The Cloward-Piven strategy was never about fixing what’s broken. It was about breaking it—on purpose—so something new (and worse) could take its place.
This is why I keep saying that we don’t need better politicians; we need better people. People who understand how the system works, and how it’s being manipulated to bankrupt us and steal our prosperity, peace, and worse—our kids’ futures.
Their evil plans have been pretty successful so far. That’s why we’re working so hard to help parents raise kids who grow up learning about incentives, tradeoffs, personal responsibility, and the dangers of central planning.
It’s exactly why we created the Tuttle Twins books.
Our stories teach the foundational ideas that keep society free and functional… even when powerful people are working to undermine both.
Decades before Cloward and Piven, economist F.A. Hayek warned in The Road to Serfdom that central planning always ends in tyranny. He taught that when governments promise to take care of everything, they eventually have to control everything—and freedom dies along the way.
We thought that was such an important lesson that we adapted it into a kids book.
The Tuttle Twins and the Road to Surfdom (yes—Surfdom because there’s a beach trip, some bureaucrats, and some serious consequences) shows how even well-meaning plans can spiral into disaster when liberty isn’t the priority. It shows how systems that grow too big eventually break, and how sometimes that’s an accident but sometimes… it isn’t.
If you want your kids and grandkids to understand the world they’re inheriting—and how to protect their liberty in it—our books are a must.
Because if collapse is the plan, then strong family and home-education has to be the resistance.
—Connor
