Glenn Beck was a guest tonight on 9-11 Truther Andrew Napolitano's show on the Fox Business Network. During the show, Napolitano came out strongly against raising the debt ceiling, calling it “an easy” decision. Beck did take a clear position, but at one point, he said that if Republicans went along with Obama's call to raise the debt ceiling, “that will be the beginning of the end of the Republicans.”

Since refusing to raise the debt ceiling would cause the United States to default on its obligations, it would basically throw the country into turmoil. Thus, as conservative blogger Allah Pundit has noted, Napolitano (and possibly) Beck are embracing something resembling the supposed Cloward-Piven strategy of creating a crisis in order to bring about reforms.

Indeed, Beck said that if Congress does not raise the debt ceiling, “the rest of the world flees from America,” “that means we crash things” and that “our monetary system could collapse.” Napolitano said that refusing to raise the debt ceiling “would mean there won't be enough money to pay the troops,” and “there won't be enough to pay Social Security.” Napolitano added, “It means the government will have to make very hard choices and that's what we elected them to do” and we will learn that “nobody will lend us money in the future and we will have to stick within our means.”

One might think Beck would be against such a deliberate collapse of the system. Beck attacks Cloward & Piven all the time for trying to do this. In fact, just today, Beck attacked Frances Fox Piven herself saying that Piven was trying to “cause a revolution by financially collapsing the American system.”

So apparently in Beck's mind, progressives who supposedly advocate “financially collapsing the American system” are evil and must be stopped. But when his buddy Napolitano calls for the collapse of our monetary system, that might just be a good idea.

Incidentally, Piven says she was not advocating revolution or a total collapse of the American system. Rather, she was campaigning to ensure that all poor people receive welfare benefits, which would overburden cities who could not afford what they promised and necessitate “federalizing the program to relieve fiscal pressures, and improving it to satisfy the minority poor.”