Reference Guide to Debunking the Political Flu Pandemic

David Usher

Ethical practitioners of respiratory viral science are correcting the pandemic of false information spread by entitled government “experts” such as Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx.  They have been heavily censored by Google, YouTube, Facebook, and the MSM.

This is the medical truth about the Coronavirus from independent scientists not working for the government.  If you are tired of hearing stories that do not add up, please study this article carefully.

We all should know by now that the wild claims about 2.2 million dead in the United States were entirely false.  We did not suspect that the entitled government medical complex would lead us to unnecessary shut the country down.

By the time the first outbreak of the novel coronavirus was winding down in China and Europe, scientists knew that the mortality figures for the new virus were probably about the same as other flu viruses.

They also knew that about 80% of people display no symptoms and recover naturally.  We learned that hospitals do not come close to being overwhelmed if people quickly get antibiotics if their infection turns into pneumonia.

The Elite of the government medical community knew that Covid-19 is just another run-of-the-mill flu bug.  They knew that lockdowns and social distancing do not save lives for communicable respiratory viruses.  They knew that lockdowns of the ill, but not the healthy, are last-resort measures required only for quarantine of untreatable fatal diseases such as Ebola.

The government also knows that lockdowns extend the flu season into the future.

Interviews with ethical doctors and epidemiologists prove there is no medical need to keep the healthy locked-down.  In fact, with what we knew from China, there never was sound reason for America’s lockdown in the first place. China’s death rate per 100,000 was not extraordinarily high, revealing the truth that the virus cannot possibly be a killer virus.  European metrics show that the virus came and went in all countries with similar death metrics for both lockdown and non-lockdown countries (Sweden, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia) and countries that opened up early (Denmark, … ).

Below are highlights of accurate and informative interviews with Knut Wittkowski, Ph.D., the former head of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design at The Rockefeller University Hospital in New York City.   The more important statements are in boldface.

An interview with Knut (pronounced “Kah- Noote”):

Knut has a Masters in Biostatistics, Ph.D. in computer science, a Doctor of Science in Medical Biometry. He is CEO of ASDERA, a company developing patented interventions for autism and age-related diseases with a common underlying mechanism (high levels of endocytosis), including cancer, MS, Alzheimers, Parkinsons, Huntingtons. The same mechanism is used by (corona-) viruses to enter cells.

Below are key quotes from one of Knut’s video interviews and extended telephone interviews with David R. Usher.  The below has been verified and approved by Knut:

  • Knut does not play politics: “I’m not paid by the government, so I’m entitled to actually do science.”
  • “There are no indications that this flu is fundamentally different from any other flu.”
  • “The virus could be eliminated in weeks and herd immunity developed quickly if most people were allowed to lead normal lives.”
  • “Social distancing was employed to prevent hospitals from overflowing, which did not nearly happen. It was not needed then and it is not needed now.  Everything done to date was a useless precaution.” (quote from Rossini’s ‘The Barber of Seville.’)
  • Vaccines are not a precondition for opening the economy. “Vaccines would help create herd immunity … but for some reason we do not understand … nature has a way of making sure that we survive”.
  • “There is never a 10-fold increase in cases from one day to the next ….. There is nothing to be scared of, nothing is fundamentally different from the flus that we see in other years”.
  • Knut says that the internet is spreading panic and chaos.    He says that social distancing is causing depression.
  • “The number of infections does not matter …. The number of asymptomatic cases matters.”
  • We have a political pandemic, not a medical one.”
  • “Dr. Fauci is not an epidemiologist. He does not understand the dynamics … Dr. Fauci studied viruses where you cannot develop immunity.  He is looking at respiratory diseases as if they are like HIV or Ebola.”
  • “It is absurd to shut down the country for a flu during the flu season.”
  • “This happened because one person in Britain made a scary prediction of 2.2 million U.S. deaths and nobody in the United States dared to question the methodology.”
  • “As medical professionals, we must first do no harm. Shutting down the economy had no efficacy and everybody knew it would cause harm.”
  • Regarding the shutdown: “Nobody who took the Oath of Hippocrates could have done this. We must show efficacy and safety.”
  • “Flattening the curve only extends the pandemic”.  “We should protect the elderly and fragile, because when they get pneumonia, they have a high risk of dying off of pneumonia ….  On the other hand children do very well with these kinds of diseases ….. and so they should keep going to school, which means after about four weeks, at the most, the elderly people could start joining their family.”
  • “With all respiratory diseases, the only thing that stops the disease is herd immunity. About 80% of the people need to have had contact with the virus, and the majority of them will not even recognize that they were infected or had very mild symptoms.  So it is very important to keep schools open … to get herd immunity as fast as possible …. And the elderly people should be separated and nursing homes should be closed … they can come back and meet the children and grandchildren after about 4 weeks when the virus has been exterminated”.
  • “ ‘shelter in place’ is causing more cases and death in the elderly population because herd immunity is delayed. It may also cause a second wave.  If we had herd immunity now, there could not be a second wave in autumn … herd immunity lasts at least a couple of years” ….  “If we are preventing herd immunity from developing, it is almost guaranteed that we will have a second wave as soon as we either stop social distancing or climate changes with winter coming” … “the second wave is a direct consequence of social distancing”.
  • Regarding the “lockdown”, Knut says “it’s not the first coronavirus and it won’t be the last …. for all respiratory diseases we have the same type of an epidemic. If you leave it alone it comes for two weeks, it peaks, and goes for two weeks, and its gone”. This is what happened in China, South-Korea, Iceland, Hungary, Latvia, ….”
  • “If there had been no intervention, the epidemic would have been over like every other respiratory disease epidemic … about 2% of all symptomatic cases may die.’”
  • Shelter in place causes more infections. “Spending more time outdoors … because outdoors the virus cannot be easily spread.  That is a form of containment.   “Going outdoors is what stops every respiratory disease.”
  • Data shows that the pandemic [in the U.S.] peaked before governmental responses were implemented. Knut reports that social distancing made no difference in infection or death rates in China and other countries (including the U.S.) because it was not implemented until “after the infection rates had peaked …. herd immunity had already been reached … but by installing social distancing, they prevented it to actually getting to the final point … that is why we are still seeing new cases in South Korea several weeks after the peak. That stopped after three weeks and the recent appearance of 101 (‘more than a hundred’) cases in a Seoul amusement district is of no epidemiological relevance. “
  • “You cannot stop the spread of a respiratory disease within a family … and you cannot stop it spreading to neighbors … even in times of social distancing they still have contacts”. The infection “will go on forever unless we let it go”.
  • Knut found that our reporting systems are not following standards established during the AIDS crisis. “every case was reported with the day of diagnosis and the day of reporting ….so we cannot deconvolute this data”.

Knut Wittkowski’s recommendations:

  1. Keep schools open. Children rarely die. (The only child who died in Switzerland was born in 1911, not in 2011, as originally believed.)  They catch the flu easily and quickly spread it through the community so herd immunity develops quickly.
  2. Keep everything else open. There is no reason to run the economy into the wall.
  3. Close the doors on nursing homes as soon as a flu begins and keep it locked until the virus passes in about 4-5 weeks. Pay workers extra to live in the building and not leave.

Another Interview with Knut Wittkowski:

  • “There is no fundamental difference between the flu and COVID”
  • “With the flu, vaccines are not that great, it might help a bit, yes, but it does not make much of a difference.”
  • “Every virus that spreads is a new virus. We may have vaccines for similar viruses, that have something called cross-immunity … that might help a bit.”
  • “Regarding Sweden, which is mostly open; what we have seen in Sweden is not disaster that people have expected. …. The collateral damage is more devastating than the disease itself.”
  • “South Korea was very proud not to shut down the country …. It lasted about three weeks, and the epidemic was over”.
  • “We must differentiate between virus testing and antibody testing. Antibody tests are important for the epidemiologist because it tells us how many people are already immune.   If we were to open up everything today, if there should be a rebound, it would be very low.”.
  • “Schools should be opened immediately. We should open everything to move towards herd immunity.”
  • One opportunity and obligation we have as scientists to reach out to politicians even if they don’t like that we have something to say and there are things we can provide to prevent further damage from being dumb”.

Interview with Urgent Care:  with Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Massihi. These doctors own  the largest urgent care facilities in Kern County CA.  The entitled medical Orthodoxy has been very critical of them without stating valid reasons.  This interview brings out the facts and the science. 

  • “There is a 0.03% chance of dying of Covid in California.”
  • “This is our own data”.
  • “Millions of cases – small amount of death … you will see this in all states.”
  • “The initial models were so inaccurate.”
  • “There is a 0.1% chance of dying from Covid in New York …. Similar to flu
  • “We always have between 37,000 and 60,000 deaths in the US every year … no pandemic talk, no shelter-in-place, no shutdown.”
  • “In Spain, 0.05% chance of dying of Covid, and a 90% chance of recovery without visiting a hospital.”
  • “Sweden had no lockdown, an a little bit of social distancing. Norway had lockdown. The difference in death between these two countries is statistically insignificant.”
  • What is the cost of social isolation – secondary effects of Covid – things that last a lifetime?
    • Child molestation is increasing
    • Spousal abuse
    • Alcoholism, anxiety, depression, suicide spiking
    • Economic and education collapse.
    • Homelessness is increasing
    • Oil shutdown
  • “We are following the science.”

How does the immune system work?

  • We do not put children in bubble wrap and say go have a safe life.”
  • Immunity comes from developing immune responses to infection.
  • You need interaction to develop your immune system.
  • Sheltering in place decreases your immune system.
  • “We have never responded to a virus like this before. Why are we doing this now?”
  • “We are not seeing what they have been talking about for the last 6-8 weeks. We are actually seeing the patients.  Fauci is in an ivory tower and has not seen a patient in 20 years …. Academics and reality are two different things.”
  • *Early on, the truth changes every two hours.”
  • We are not wearing masks. Why is that? Because we understand microbiology and immunology, and we want a strong immune system.
  • The flu and Covid are similar in prevalence and in death rate. Now that we know the facts, it is time to get back to work.”
  • “People die of co-morbidities. They do not die from Covid.  25 years of cigarette smoking killed them.”
  • “Why are we being pressured to add Covid on death certificates? To add to the numbers and make them look worse then they are?  I think so.”
  • “There is no reason to quarantine the young and the healthy. During leprosy, they isolated the sick, not the healthy.”
  • “It is not statistically different between lockdown and not locked down.”
  • We all need normal flora. Bacteria that are not virulent are our friends.  They protect us from opportunistic infection.”
  • “90% of those who die have co-morbidities — heart failure, emphysema, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, HIV. “

Conclusions:

  • “Do we need to shelter in place? Our answer is emphatically NO.“
  • “Do we need business still shut down? Emphatically NO.
  • “Do we need to test them? ”
  • “The secondary impacts we went over are a significantly more detrimental thing to a society than a virus that has proven to be similar to the flu.”
  • “We need to put measures in place so that an economic shutdown does not happen again.”
  • “Quarantining the sick is what we do. Not quarantining the healthy.”
  • “If you are going to dance on somebody’s Constitutional rights you better have a really good scientific reason and not just theory.”
  • We need to open schools.
  • “Big businesses are open, little businesses [such as cafes] are not. There is no science behind that.”
  • “If you have no symptoms, you should be able to return to work.”
  • “We eventually treat this like we treat the flu. If you feel ill, go home, recover, then come back.”
  • “Going outside is healthy. Why can’t you go to the park and walk around when you go to Home Depot without wearing a mask? The inconsistencies and incongruencies make no sense.”
  • “We need to let everyone know that it is OK to go see the doctor.”
  • We think the risks of social isolation are too high.”
  • “An ER doctor from Wisconsin … says it eloquently “I’m walking into this war zone. Our ICU’s are empty.  I’m scared to go to my own place of work. There’s no patients, but we have people in hazmat suits checking my temperature when I walk in the door.  There is something else going on here.  This is not about science.  When the say the word “safe”, it’s all about controlling you.”
  • [Paraphrasing]: We must open the hospitals and make people feel safe. They are afraid to come in for testing.
  • “Who says what’s safe? Are you smart enough to know what’s safe for you?  Or is the government going to tell you what’s safe for you? As soon as they use the word “safe”, that means control.   We know what’s safe for you.  You are too dumb to understand disease.  And so, they are going to use this model for different things.  We get a bomb threat from China and everybody stays home for three months.  They are using this to see how much of your freedom they can take from you.   Will you roll over and stay in your house?  And it’s working!  If you notice how many Americans are responding?  If you go to any gun store they are out of ammo ….  People are mad … posting photos of themselves on Facebook saying “let’s roll”.   What I am saying is … lets avoid all that.  That has one ending …. And that is violence.

© 2020 David Usher – All Rights Reserved

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The State Marijuana Cartel: The Sixth Phase Of The Democrat Plantation

Our extensive new Report: The Costly Fraud of Marijuana Normalization reveals the dark truths and frightful economic costs of the Democrat agenda.  Progressives fooled everyone by claiming that “medical” marijuana (a subterranean synonym for “recreational” pot) must be legalized as a painkiller for victims of disease, old age, and ultimately minor pain and stress.   In this report you will see that the sea of red ink caused by state-sponsored drug addiction is horrendous and unsustainable.

Marijuana normalization is a progressive social justice smokescreen allegedly ending discrimination against black and Hispanic drug gangbangers who end up dead or in prison.  This “West Side Story” is cover for the tobacco lobby — the big money pushing pot legalization – devoted to switching people from cigarettes to marijuana.

Why are Progressives from Joe Biden to Claire McCaskill throwing their political futures behind pot legalization?  The answer is not the Oleanna you might imagine.

When the State establishes a monopoly drug cartel fronted by doctors acting as protected drug dealers, the state becomes a criminal enterprise running a plantation of drug addicts.

Progressives rewound the clock back to the 1960’s – with doctors “recommending” pot just like they once recommended Lucky Strike cigarettes.   Second-hand pot smoke stoning unborn babies, kids, and the 93% of Washington D.C. that does not smoke pot is considered a sign of an advanced civilization.

We are witnessing the Sixth Phase of the Democrat Plantation.  The Sixth Phase consists of state-owned monopoly marijuana cartels drugging their citizens into permanent failure, indolence, and guaranteed blue-state votes.  A drugged populace is a Plantation Populace, unable to think, work, or succeed, living in prison or the welfare state.  This is the criminal Fascist gangsterization of state government.

The Sixth Phase has recently taken control of major urban cores (in marijuana-cartel states) marked by invasions of homelessness and record levels of drug-related violence.  Cities impacted include San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Seattle, Portland, Washington D.C., Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, Cleveland, New York, -++and even St. Louis (the gateway for drug distribution to the East).

Democrats had to change strategy in the post-Obama era because President Trump’s policies are capping the 5 Phases of the Democrat Plantation identified by Dinesh D’Souza.

Phyllis Schlafly’s surprise endorsement of Donald Trump effectively put an end to Democrats stuffing the ballot box with illegal immigrants.  Marijuana is stuffing the ballot box with drug addicts and a corrupt state vote.

States that “normalized” pot are demanding and often implementing some combination of free housing, universal basic income, free health care, free food, and heavy corporate and private taxes to pay for the homelessness and other crises that drug addiction causes.  We do not see this happening in non-marijuana-cartel states.

I use the word “normalized” instead of “legalized” because non-state-sponsored marijuana is still illegal.  When marijuana is “normalized” there are more arrests.  There is more crime and violence when foreign cartels and upstart local gangs battle the state and each other for a piece of a much larger drug market.  When the entire state reeks of pot, it becomes as endemic as soda pop.

Is marijuana really a problem?   When lots of people use serotonin-impacting drugs such as opiates or meth, all hell breaks loose.  Marijuana similarly impacts serotonin receptors and causes the same life-failures as other Class II drugs.   Trading opiates for pot is far more dangerous because the tobacco-lobby (funding pot “legalization”) has everyone brainwashed into thinking that pot is good for people.

Drug use is the primary predictor of gun and domestic violence.   Crime, violence, homelessness, divorce, unemployment, welfare, school failure, lost children, and poverty are some the wreckage we always see – but we rarely understand where these problems begin.

State-sponsored drug addiction is a fraud on many levels.  States take the marijuana taxes and run.  Local jurisdictions, Chambers of Commerce, police, prosecutors, schools, businesses, and taxpayers get stuck with nearly all the economic, social, and criminal consequences.  The tobacco lobby, Willie Nelson, and a few politicos get rich.  Local jurisdictions in states that legalized pot drown in red ink.   They are spending at least 10-20 times more on unfunded socioeconomic wreckage than the state makes from tax receipts.  Local taxes jump in vain attempts to save your city.

We must litigate to end state-run drug monopolies.  Most state constitutions require the state to serve the general welfare of the citizens.  Drugging them back to the dark ages is without question unconstitutional.

At the federal level, enforcement of all applicable federal laws must be vigorous.   America  cannot afford “Sanctuary Drug States” sopping the nation’s gravy.    The criminal, social, and welfare data are a disaster driving record federal spending on everything from crime to means-tested welfare.

Beyond this, President Trump can empower the little people to un-drug states with our “Family Substance Abuse” order.  It is a simple but effective legal power tool families can easily use to drive substance abuse and violence out of their families and neighborhoods.  The deaths of Fred Trump and Michael Brown need not be wasted.  Our policy will save millions of lives if President Trump is willing to order state-level pilot programs.

© 2017 David Usher – All Rights Reserved

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Marijuana Is A National Political And Health Crisis

Marijuana “legalization” is a hoax far more dangerous than Al Gore’s global warming agenda.   States have become monopolistic drug cartels enriching their political friends and generating large sums of slush funds while destroying the lives of their own citizens.

There are Thirteen key facts about the Left’s drug coup that reek to high heavens:

America’s greatest problems begin with substance abuse:   Gun violence, domestic violence, and a long list other downstream consequences such as marriage-absence, poverty, crime, deficits, and massive nanny government begin with substance abuse.    That is why Democrat Communists want to increase drug abuse and reconstruct a debauched Weimar Germany.

Fraudulent politics:  The term “Medical marijuana” often used fraudulently.  It often refers to growing and distributing the mind-blowing “recreational pot” plant, not the controlled CBD extracts (containing less than 3/10 of 1% THC – the only true form of non-mood-altering “medical marijuana”).   The high downstream costs of marijuana legalization far outstrip revenues.     Taxpayers are stuck holding the bag for costs arising from the myriad of social problems caused by drug abuse.

Addicted to fake science:  Activists claiming that marijuana makes them feel better are no different than drunks bragging that Jack Daniels solves all their pains and problems.  Getting high is fake science, not a a panacea.  The old traveling medicine shows were a similar problem.  Hawkers sold laudanum (opium), morphine, marijuana, cocaine, and other drugs until the Federal government made them controlled substances.

How Addiction Works: Marijuana is a Schedule-I drug that is both physically and psychologically addictive.   Thirty percent of users develop a serious “use disorder”.  The rates of addiction 400-700% higher for those who begin using pot before age 18.

In the short run, all mood-altering substances make it easy for people to happily ignore their problems. But in the longer run folks become less able to deal with life’s problems because they “blow them off”.  Folks often fall behind in life, buried under more stress and anxiety.  They are far more likely to end up divorced, unemployed, disabled, in poverty, in prison, in a fatal car wreck, or a suicide.

Candyland Government: Medicine has precise doses. It is not marketed with hippie names like “Soul Assassin” or “Kryptonite”.  And it is not sold in head shops.   You will never see prescribed medicines with such profound negative impact on heart, lungs, memory, brain development, and motivation.  The FDA would never approve it, and no manufacturer would dare risk it.

Drunk and stoned:  Alcohol sales had a small decrease of 15%-20% in the 21 states that legalized “medical” marijuana.  Some are getting stoned instead of getting drunk — but many of those who still drink are getting drunk and stoned – a much bigger threat in terms of health and highways.

“Medical marijuana” increases opioids abuse: Researchers at Stanford University and the University College in Cork, Scotland found that people who use “medical” marijuana were 60% more likely to also use prescription drugs such as opioids, and more than twice as likely to take prescription (opioid) drugs for “non-medical” purposes.    Opioids and alcohol become a “perfect storm” driving white working-class suicides and overdoses according to Stanford Doctors Angus Deaton and Anne Case.   Senator Claire McCaskill is tooting both ends of her horn being “Mad as Hell” about Naloxone prices while supporting medical marijuana in Missouri.

Money-losing government drug cartels:  States are being converted into monopoly drug cartels — oligarchies enriching liberal political buddies while harming citizens and leaving taxpayers holding the bag for a large list of very costly social, criminal, and enforcement expenses.  It robs the taxpayer to finance the liberal political model by bleeding drug addicts for donations.

Longitudinal impact statements were intentionally left out of fiscal notes in prior legislation legalizing pot.  A few years later, we now read many frantic stories from municipalities and states drowning in social and economic problems states brought on themselves for lack of legislative honesty.

Missouri Republicans are playing with fire legalizing medical marijuana.  The state is predicting a small profit in its flawed fiscal note review, and is planning far more production facilities and sales than can be supported by the limited use of extracts.  After increases in costs for expensive illegal grow interdictions and environmental cleanups, opioid abuse and treatment and incarcerations are added, Missouri will lose a lot of money – which will then become the war cry for full legalization of recreational pot.

Blue States Forever:   Phyllis Schlafly warned us that Democrats intended to turn America forever “Blue” by importing the dregs of the world through illegal immigration.   Marijuana is another addictive weapon intended to turn states into permanent blue-state drug cartel plantations.  The entire Democrat party is pumping  marijuana in many states.  Chuck Schumer even autographed a bong in a sickening move to politicize pot.

This drug revolution is similar to the “sanctuary cities” insurrection.    State’s rights were never intended to to destroy the whole cloth of our Free Republic or render America dysfunctional in a mass stupor of pot smoke and related drug addictions.   The Democrat drug insurrection has the same endpoint as slavery did.  Both are intended to enrich and empower a chosen political class, while keeping large numbers of citizens down and out, addicted, failing in marriage and work, trapped on the Democrat plantation.

Health, social, economic, and criminal Consequences:  Marijuana imposes very serious health problems for adults and children – far worse than cigarettes or alcohol.  Any possible “medicinal” value is negligible balanced against known risks.  This is why “leaded” marijuana could never pass FDA approval for any purpose.  The Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (RMHIDTA), a very large, 22-year longitudinal study, recently issued a scathing master report documenting the serious social, medical, psychological, mental health, suicide, criminal, educational, homelessness,  car accidents, and other problems plaguing states that legalized medical or recreational marijuana.  The list of problems is far too long for this article.  I have hundreds of other citations proving that marijuana should not be legalized.

The Constitutionality of unfunded mandates:  The federal government cannot force states to execute federally-mandated mandates not funded with federal dollars.

State Initiatives containing unfunded or undisclosed mandates can also be struck down.   The Montana Supreme Court found Marsy’s law unconstitutional  because it “deprived Montana voters of the ability to consider the many, separate ways it changed Montana’s constitution or explain the significant administrative, financial, and compliance burdens its unfunded mandates imposed upon state, county and local governments”.

Marijuana “legalization” ballot initiatives and state legislation claim significant tax revenues, but never report massive longitudinal social, criminal, educational, welfare, and enforcement costs the state and taxpayers will bear.    State Attorney Generals should sue to kill legislation and remove ballot initiatives that lie to voters about fiscal liabilities

The Constitutionality of the State knowingly harming its citizens: The Missouri Constitution Article 1 Section 2 declares that “constitutional government is intended to promote the general welfare of the people” … ”that to give security to these things is the principal office of government, and that when government does not confer this security, it fails in its chief design”.  The Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area report and the broad body of peer-reviewed science proves that THC-containing marijuana  is so harmful as to be unconstitutional on its face.   State Attorney Generals should sue to kill legislation and remove ballot initiatives legalizing high-THC marijuana.   The harm to citizens is too certain, too serious, and too broad to let stand.

Marxism on drugs:  The sex and drug revolution initiated by Marxist Herbert Marcuse and his peers in the 1960’s was the first successful Marxist attack creating serious class conflict in the United States.   It separated kids from parents and sent them on a decadent riot that has become a much more serious and violent movement.  A large and irrational class of drug-using millennials are now driving dangerous emotional uprisings about free speech, education policy, Constitution, religion fascism, racism, sexism, President Trump.  Abbie Hoffman’s “Revolution for the Hell of It” finally came true.  It is no secret that Karl Marx was an opiate addict.   Sigmund Freud developed his gratuitous sexual theories while addicted to cocaine.  Good luck finding a professional liberal whose “realities” are not jaded by drugs.     

Making the Republican Party Great Again: Senator Cory Gardner should be booted from the Republican Party for suborning national security to pot legalization.

The Koch Brothers pretend they are not liberals …. But they are.   They claim that federal government regulation of marijuana violates free market principles.  The Koch Brothers have joined George Soros’s “Open Society” team of globalists demanding erasure of our borders.  Their dark money hopes to turn the Republican party blue.  Liberals running as Republicans on Koch money must be outed and exported.

I will give the Koch Brothers the short morning coffee lecture they richly deserve.    Free market principles do not include enriching liberals by turning states into drug cartels to the deep detriment of the Citizens of the United States.  Great wealth imbues great responsibility.  In this, the Koch Brothers are a failure.

© 2018 David Usher – All Rights Reserved

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Feminism Is America’s Second-Greatest Threat

Next to illegal immigration, feminism is the second-greatest seminal threat to American Independence.

My mentor Phyllis Schlafly often wrote about the Supremacists – of which feminists are the most entrenched and dangerous of all anti-American movements.   Feminism is the hub of Communism, Marxism, socialism, fascism, the Democrat Party, and the Communist Party in the United States.

The Communist Party USA is illegal under federal law but its platform operates openly under Democrat Party auspices.   In 2008, we elected a Communist president with fascist leanings.  Democrats seized 1/6 of the economy under the guise of National Health Care, made everyone wards of the federal government, and flattened our economy for eight long years.

Upon election, President Obama quickly gave interdisciplinary cabinet-level control of all departments to lesbians running the National Organization for Women, who dictated cabinet policy from the White House Office on Women and Girls (WOWG).  The feminist sexual revolution agenda was broadly forced upon other departments, most notably the military and education, sometimes enhanced by destructive Presidential orders and letters that are still operative today.

Fake rape statistics were used to take over college campuses.  “Star Chamber” administrative campus tribunals now apply phony definitions of sex abuse to kick men out college, while women have carte-blanche rights to slam down beer, do drugs, and sleep with anybody they want with no risk of repercussion.  “Microaggressions” established an unintelligible encyclopedia of punishable “patriarchal crimes”.

Feminists are well on the way to forcing everyone to live according to radical feminist dicta under phony “Yes Means Yes” laws requiring men (even married men) to get permission to hold a woman’s hand (and everything beyond that) or be presumed guilty of a sexual offense. This law was sponsored by radical feminist Senator Claire McCaskill, and reflects her demand that men “shut the hell up” on a broad range of issues that are the sole domain of feminist Supremacists to manage.

Feminist harangues about sexual violence are as phony as Al Gore’s global warming agitprop.  Sexual violence has decreased 60% since 1995, with colleges being the safest place for women.  About half of rape allegations are false and many more unfounded.

When President Trump won the presidency in 2016, “nasty women” promptly declared “the future is feminist”.  That is exactly what liberals are doing right now.

I am here to warn everyone that feminists (who already broadly control levers of power in the swamp, media, education, law, and politics) are executing a coordinated takeover of the U.S. Congress, state governments, courts, and perches of economic power in business, media, and academics by hurling mostly-false sex allegations at men.

History has already proven this will win in 2018 regardless of the issues in each race.   Feminists have been perfecting their “Mother of all bombs” for over 130 years. 

The history begins in the mid-1880’s when the first feminists in the Women’s Ku Klux Klan commonly used false sex allegations against black men to drive discrimination and bloody mob lynchings (as documented in the movie Rosewood). Feminists then, as today, wanted a lot more than equality.  They got it by establishing dual standards based on extorted chivalry.

“The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world” was the WKKK Supremacist motto. Divorces have thusly been won for over 100 years with Allred-style false child or adult abuse allegations hurled at men, up to 77% of which are false.

In his new book, “The Politics of Sex”, Stephen Baskerville describes how feminists are succeeding every day all over America:

“In the years following Tailhook the military was besieged with accusations of the same gender crimes now familiar in civilian life: rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment. When these produced too many acquittals, the rules were changed to ensure more convictions.”

This is precisely what is happening right now all over America.   Allegations take two minutes to make, are impossible to disprove in most cases, and often result in knee-jerk firing or expulsion of men.  The avalanche of accusations has crushed sanity and made case-by-case analysis impossible in the media.

Harvey Weinstein went way overboard and was quickly declared guilty.  Men who did nothing worth sneezing at often end up fired or pariahed because they are the same sex as Harvey Weinstein.  The feminist meat grinder wins because spitting out volumes of false allegations costs nearly nothing, while it is very expensive and perhaps impossible to prove innocence.

Feminists never mention how Elizabeth Taylor and other screen sirens wore out their casting couches.  They never talk about the epidemic of female teachers sexually abusing children in our public schools.

The vast majority of men destroyed by feminists did nothing that women were not happily doing alongside them at parties, in dressing rooms, offices, and everyplace else imaginable.  The results are vastly unequal: men get sacked while women get payoffs, a book deal, and pandering appearances on talk television.

Sex crimes are horrid life-destructive crimes – and so are false sex crime allegations.  Both should be punished with equal vigor.  But they are not.  Amidst the howling roar of the feminist rape riot, nobody dares mention serious collateral damage done to innocent men.    Everyone runs, ducks, capitulates, or hides – which is exactly what feminists want them to do.

This is big business.  Women were paid up to $750,000 to hurl accusations at President Trump.   Dark-money from George Soros and other political sources expose the real purpose of this Bolshevik revolution.

The list of men being destroyed is exploding faster than we can tally it.  Men fired on allegation alone are nearly always replaced by women.   Jeff Bezos is considering only women to replace the head of Amazon Studios.  Feminists are such a sexist threat that even liberal gay men are abandoning the feminist movement.

Time magazine exulted the Supremacist coup with a callous proclamation:

“These now disgraced men are not being replaced by women as an act of revenge, but because the women are the best candidates for the job. It’s promotion of the fittest. It’s evolution.”

This is a massive sexist violation of employment laws and mass persecution like never before witnessed in American history.

Feminists are quickly erecting city “takeover” Commissions similar to the “Yes Means Yes” campus tribunals.  Hollywood’s Commission on Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality — headed by Anita Hill — says it all.  Women can get anything they want by dressing like Phyllis Schlafly and hollering “abuse”.  Sex abuse and female entitlement were muttered in the same breath when Oprah hinted an angry run for the presidency in 2020.

Liberals are experts at emotionally leveraging conservative principles against us.  Feminists hijacked the election from Judge Roy Moore.   Phony allegations of pedophilia froze conservative voters into staying home on election day because rational thinking dies when conservatives hear the serotonin-inhibiting words “sexual abuse”.  Spineless snowflakes running the RNC quickly abandoned Moore.  The Democrat turnout was 95% of 2016, but the Republican turnout a dismal 50%.

The sacking of Judge Roy Moore guarantees that political races in 2018 and beyond will be panopticons of sex allegations against men.

Politics has become so risky that many good conservative men are quitting politics.  A record number of 31 Republican Congresspeople – 26 of them men – will not seek re-election in 2018. Most of them cite family reasons.  Who dares risk the job, home, and family before a firing squad of feminists?

Democrats need flip only 23 seats in the House and one in the Senate to control Congress.   The wildly effective recent conquests of media and politics indicate this will be the Democrat’s nuclear weapon this fall and in 2020.

I suggest it is time for Rush Limbaugh to update his original definition of feminism: “Feminism Was Established So As To Allow Unattractive Women Easier Access To The Mainstream Of Pop Culture”.  It should be “Feminism was invented to empower Marxist sacrifice of nations before a pink pedestal of predatory chivalry”.

David R. Usher is President of the Center for Marriage Policy

© 2018 David Usher – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail David Usher: drusher@swbell.net



Establishment Republicans Endorse The Communist Party

A shocking event took place after the University of Virginia Charlottesville protests.  Establishment Republicans including Mitt Romney, John McCain, Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Gary Cohn, Fox C.E.O. James Murdoch,  and many other Republicans endorsed Antifa, the radical paramilitary wing of the Hitler-era Communist Party.

It all began with President Trump correctly saying “I think there is blame on both sides. You look at both sides.  I think there is blame on both sides,” …. “You also had some very fine people on both sides”. President Trump understands that the main players in the recent spate of protests are Leftists and Anarchists — a fact also noticed by observant writer Dave Urbanski.

Antifa aggressively calls for “pre-emptive violence”, including gun violence, property seizures, and “all out revolution”.  Antifa appears to be the unofficial “jackboots” of the Communist Party U.S.A  (but liberals refuse to admit it yet).   The CPUSA party platform boldly endorses violence to achieve party goals.  There is some evidence that Antifa may also be a multipurpose ACLU tool to paint immigration enforcement as fascist.  Antifa is the Alt-Left, not the Alt-Right, as falsely alleged by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

So who were the “very fine people” on both sides?   I attended Knox College with John Podesta in the radical days of the early 1970’s.  Our campus was occasionally lively due to Saul Alinsky community-organizing military exercises (seizing and “liberating” a large Freshman women’s dormitory was one of them).  Whenever something happened, a lot of us normal college kids not caught up in “Revolution for the Hell of It” went to see what was going on.  My friends were mostly unimpressed and though the ruckus to be rather idiotic.

Who are the Leftists raising “Cain” all over the country?  They range from socialist, Marxist, Communist, to Fascist.   They are all headed for Hell, but fight about the best way to get there.

White supremacist leader Jason Kessler, a leader of the Occupy movement and leftist organizer, ran a chat server and was aware of the plan to run over Charlottesville protesters.  Leftist street gangs such as Identity Europa, Traditionalist Worker Party, & Vanguard America were instructed to take orders from Kessler.

Richard Spencer presides over groups of white nationalists at these events with folks waving Confederate or “Kek” flags (an imaginary Egyptian throwback based on the Nazi flag).  Confederates are leftist, but these “confederates” are also hard-core Marxist.

The radicals at these staged university protests have four things in common.  They are leftists, mostly men, mostly white, and often feminist.  They are powerless liberal males scrambling for power in a Democrat party that has been controlled by radical feminists for decades.  But where are the women?   Campus feminists are the organizers.  Feminists also organized Occupy, Black Lives Matters, gay marriage, lesbian rights, transgender, Ferguson, Baltimore, and hundreds of other viral power memes since the early 1960’s.   Feminists control every piece of the campus pie via the campus “Students Against Sexism” office, a funded conglomerate of all things Leftist on campus.

With the rise of Donald Trump, feminists have seen a string of recent failures.   Illegal immigration went down in flames.  Black Lives Matter, the U.V.A./Rolling Stone fake rape power grab, and transgender hijacking  of administrative policy backfired badly.   Campus feminists (especially at U.V.A) are  rattling cages to ensure continuing chokehold control of academics.

Marxists have been steadily goose-stepping across the United States since the 1930’s, and now have control of our major institutions.  Race, sex, gender, and economic disparity are their lightsabers – all of which have been swung full-force since Donald Trump entered the Presidential arena.   The powerful feminist grip on politics, academics, law, psychology, government, military, and most notably “the swamp” (which revolves around feminist policy) is threatened by President Trump.   That makes our quivering claque of politically-correct feminist Republicans very nervous.

The rise of multi-issue Marxist/Communist/Fascist/”Anti-fascist” protests has been very effective keeping the President and Republicans disoriented, distracted, divided, and conquered.   We must strictly and quietly enforce federal protest laws, ignore the hysterics, and they will go home.

House and Senate Republicans are making a fatal mistake opposing President Trump.  The “swamp” is run by liberals who will never vote Republican no matter how much money we throw at them.  Trump is a wizard dealing with political correctness.   Liberals threw the book and him and lost. Republicans should trust the President and stay out of these necessary battles with the “alt-swamp”.

The Republican base is very unhappy with Congress.  Republicans will be facing an angry and vindictive voter base in 2018 and 2020 if they continue sandbagging the President.  Republicans are repeating history – they foolishly lost the House and Senate in 2006 and gave Obama a truculent victory in 2008 because they achieved nothing impressive with the 1994 Republican landslide.   Republicans are in far worse shape today because the only people they are making happy are Democrats.

Removing disruptive illegal immigrants is a minor problem compared to extensive internal damage to society, government, and law wrought by revolutionary radical feminists in government and law.  In “The New Politics of Sex”, Dr. Stephen Baskerville proves that “The potential of sexual politics therefore is not the extremists, but the steady erosion of family integrity, personal privacy, critical thought, and civic freedom, through the relentless politicization of private life by an ideology to which we are now so acculturated that we are largely immune from realizing its effects”.

I urge President Trump and Congress to de-fund and dismantle feminist control over academics and law schools.  Women’s studies, women’s interdisciplinary studies, women’s jurisprudence sections, racial studies, psychology, and media are implicitly discriminatory sexist institutions causing widespread anomie.  This Machinery is how Marxists seized control of everything from our universities to the  Supreme Court.   They are the radical Leftists who replaced marriage with big government  — the primary factor killing the American family — driving uncontrolled deficit spending and high taxes .  The Fascist Feminist Revolution must be “deported” to Make America Great Again.

© 2017 David Usher – All Rights Reserved

E-Mail David Usher: drusher@swbell.net



A guide for presidentially challenged voters

This Presidential race has seen the most colossal battle of rumors, revelations, and revilement in political history.

I discovered that a surprising number of my friends and neighbors are still torn about Tuesday. They do not like either candidate for a variety of reasons.

I have helped many friends and neighbors by reminding them that this election is not about personality. The only thing that matters is policy – what the candidate will do as President. To hell with the rumor mill.

Donald Trump had some perhaps slightly racy years, matured, and has been living a clean Christian life since marrying Melania. After giving up on both the Democrat and Republican parties, he walked away from a comfortable 1% insider life and spent over $58 million of his own money taking on the uni-party beltway globalist establishment. He loves America enough to make a great personal sacrifice as a true American patriot.

Donald Trump’s Contract With The American Voter is exactly what President Trump will do. It will reconstruct the hearth and soul of our Great nation. It will reverse the great calamities impacting millions of Americans.

Everyone who reads the Contract will find themselves in it. Please share this article with your perplexed friends. It is all they need to know to be comfortable when they vote on Tuesday.

DONALD J. TRUMP CONTRACT WITH THE AMERICAN VOTER

“Therefore, on the first day of my term of office, my administration will immediately pursue the following six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC:

• FIRST, propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress;
• SECOND, a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health);
• THIRD, a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated;
• FOURTH, a 5 year-ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service;
• FIFTH, a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government;
• SIXTH, a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.

On the same day, I will begin taking the following seven actions to protect American workers:

• FIRST, I will announce my intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205
• SECOND, I will announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
• THIRD, I will direct my Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator
• FOURTH, I will direct the Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately
• FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal.
• SIXTH, lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward
• SEVENTH, cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America’s water and environmental infrastructure

Additionally, on the first day, I will take the following five actions to restore security and the constitutional rule of law:

• FIRST, cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama
• SECOND, begin the process of selecting a replacement for Justice Scalia from one of the 20 judges on my list, who will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States
• THIRD, cancel all federal funding to Sanctuary Cities
• FOURTH, begin removing the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won’t take them back
• FIFTH, suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur. All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered extreme vetting.

Next, I will work with Congress to introduce the following broader legislative measures and fight for their passage within the first 100 days of my Administration:

1. Middle Class Tax Relief And Simplification Act. An economic plan designed to grow the economy 4% per year and create at least 25 million new jobs through massive tax reduction and simplification, in combination with trade reform, regulatory relief, and lifting the restrictions on American energy. The largest tax reductions are for the middle class. A middle-class family with 2 children will get a 35% tax cut. The current number of brackets will be reduced from 7 to 3, and tax forms will likewise be greatly simplified. The business rate will be lowered from 35 to 15 percent, and the trillions of dollars of American corporate money overseas can now be brought back at a 10 percent rate.

2. End The Offshoring Act Establishes tariffs to discourage companies from laying off their workers in order to relocate in other countries and ship their products back to the U.S. tax-free.

3. American Energy & Infrastructure Act. Leverages public-private partnerships, and private investments through tax incentives, to spur $1 trillion in infrastructure investment over 10 years. It is revenue neutral.

4. School Choice And Education Opportunity Act. Redirects education dollars to gives parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice. Ends common core, brings education supervision to local communities. It expands vocational and technical education, and make 2 and 4-year college more affordable.

5. Repeal and Replace Obamacare Act. Fully repeals Obamacare and replaces it with Health Savings Accounts, the ability to purchase health insurance across state lines, and lets states manage Medicaid funds. Reforms will also include cutting the red tape at the FDA: there are over 4,000 drugs awaiting approval, and we especially want to speed the approval of life-saving medications.

6. Affordable Childcare and Eldercare Act. Allows Americans to deduct childcare and elder care from their taxes, incentivizes employers to provide on-site childcare services, and creates tax-free Dependent Care Savings Accounts for both young and elderly dependents, with matching contributions for low-income families.

7. End Illegal Immigration Act Fully-funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5-year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.

8. Restoring Community Safety Act. Reduces surging crime, drugs and violence by creating a Task Force On Violent Crime and increasing funding for programs that train and assist local police; increases resources for federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to dismantle criminal gangs and put violent offenders behind bars.

9. Restoring National Security Act. Rebuilds our military by eliminating the defense sequester and expanding military investment; provides Veterans with the ability to receive public VA treatment or attend the private doctor of their choice; protects our vital infrastructure from cyber-attack; establishes new screening procedures for immigration to ensure those who are admitted to our country support our people and our values

10. Clean up Corruption in Washington Act. Enacts new ethics reforms to Drain the Swamp and reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics.

On November 8th, Americans will be voting for this 100-day plan to restore prosperity to our economy, security to our communities, and honesty to our government.

This is my pledge to you.

And if we follow these steps, we will once more have a government of, by and for the people.”

© 2016 David Usher – All Rights Reserved



Donald Trump’s war of independence

Donald Trump is leading America’s third war of Independence (the first two being in 1776 and the War of 1812).

Donald Trump’s declaration of independence from the Establishment in both parties was long coming. He bounced between parties for two decades before coming to the conclusion that both parties worshipped globalism. He had no choice but to run for the Presidency. His candidacy is in fact America’s Third War for Independence.

Trump’s campaign touched the taproot of the Electorate. Most Americans cannot quite put a finger on the reason, but understand one thing: they know they have been sold to international kingmakers by both parties.

Brexit is the United Kingdom’s Declaration of Independence from the European Union – a takeover by lawyers, globalists, and Communists who achieved on paper what the Romans, Hitler, Hannibal, and King Charlemagne temporarily accomplished by military force.

Trump’s War of Independence is far more complex than anything before it. Prior to 1960, geographic borders were the primary boundaries buttressed by military strength. Those simple days are long gone.

Sovereignty in a high-technology world today depends on what I call “The Five Elements of Independence”, but protected by aggregated military and technological prowess:

1. Geographic borders
2. Economic/monetary borders
3. Legal borders
4. Political borders
5. Social borders
The United States and Western Europe are in grave trouble because of the rise of Globalism, which places the “interests” of the entire world above those of individual nations. Globalism calls for replacement of the Five Elements of American Independence with rule by unelected Libertopian academics beholden to the investor class. The primary machinery involved is the United Nations, World Court, the IMF, NATO, and the European Union.

Globalism is a Frankenstein hybrid of John Maynard Keynes and Karl Marx. Nations are placed on a chess board to be remotely manipulated by the Investor and multicultural academic classes. Jobs go to low-paying countries. Corporations and investors locate corporations and take profits in countries that specialize as tax havens. The working class has either subsistence pay or no work at all. The richer nations on the chessboard with larger populations see shrinking tax bases, mounting poverty, slow-lane economies, powerless and corrupt government, deficit spending, and growing poverty and crime because they are essentially being robbed in broad daylight by international Marxists.

Financial consequences cannot be contained forever in the patchwork of survival monetary gimmicks. Risky debts are sold as assets. Banks, governments, and stock markets are floated by endless quantitative easing and free money. Driverless economies plod along like zombies focusing on survival. Stock markets convulse like heroin addicts upon any hint that quantitative easing or zero-percent interest rates will end.

Driverless economies have no ability or drive to succeed. There is no incentive to excel and every incentive to take on more debt under IMF global socialist policy masquerading as banking policy. While the world displaces financial pain, the investor class continues to expand wealth at the expense of the little guy.

Private world debt is now $152 trillion, red-lining at 225% of Global GDP, nearing Japan’s current toxic record of 229% of GDP.

The United Nations and the World Court are direct threats to our legal independence: foreign lawyers and courts can conveniently manipulate American’s legal, economic, social, and political at the whim of Libertopians.

The E.U. was established by Brussels globalists to establish a profitable Empire serving the investor class that Romans, Hannibal, Hitler, Napoleon, and Charlemagne, and the U.S.S.R. could not accomplish by military force. Brexit is the first shot across the bow returning the nations of Europe to Independence.

The porous nature of international finance brought devastating consequences to our political system. Foreigners openly meddle in our electoral system via PACs. We now have strong evidence that foreign policy has been influenced by the Clintons and John Podesta profiting by sales of military technology to Russia.

We now have a “one party” corporate-political complex comprised of Republicans and Democrat Globalists terrified that Donald Trump will take down the Globalist Kingmakers in November.

I greatly admire Donald Trump’s policy. He calls for a return to a balanced economic model closer to Mercantilism that will make America rich again. “Fair” trade is not “isolationism” — the phony rhetoric globalists misuse.

Trump’s policies empower the little people to have jobs and get ahead – which is still the American Dream. Hillary’s policies empower government to fail trapping the little people on managed plantations.

Donald Trump looks to the best non-beltway specialists for policies to turn America around. Hillary looks to John Podesta and the Center for American Progress to keep America chained to the Democrat hitching post.

Those who criticize Donald Trump’s for being a “selfish rich guy” owe him a big apology. His trade policies will make his caps and T-shirts (made in China) cost 35% more. In fact, Donald will probably move manufacturing back to New York City to avoid the import penalties – along with a very long list of globalist manufacturers who cheated America out of work and trillions in tax revenues for decades.

Do I mind paying more for goods? Wait – the moderator asked the wrong question! When my taxes decrease 20% or more, the net cost to me will be negligible.

I am greatly looking forward to a reborn Great America with sound finances, a government that says what it means, and a satisfied working class rising from the ashes of our urban cores.

Donald Trump is the first candidate I have seen capable of turning America around. Bringing jobs back means big reductions in poverty, more contented middle-class marriages, reduced expenditures for welfare and prisons, a new generation of children who succeed, and a balanced budget. This is a brilliant recipe for success no Republican candidate before has ever undertaken.

On election day we have a simple choice: we can vote for Donald Trump or for the globalist kingmakers.

© 2016 David Usher – All Rights Reserved



Making America great again requires a new approach

For thirty years, Republicans have looked to beltway organizations for social policy – organizations whose policy people are former administrative agency heads making work for their friends rather than turning the problem around.

The results have been no better than what liberals do and possibly worse. Republican welfare reforms enacted in 1996 failed to stem the trajectory of the Great Society. Poverty is at record levels despite record welfare expenditures along with other low-income metrics such as drug abuse, crime, gun and domestic violence, incarceration rates, and murder.

The Center for Marriage Policy’s supply-side socioeconomic model explains why Republicans failed and how socioeconomic policy must not be done in the future. Like illegal immigration, the problem must be turned around from the front-end.

Half of the equation to “Make America Great Again” involves making marriage great again. The productive, educated, motivated work force businesses need depends decisively on relatively large numbers of married families in the middle and lower income groups.

Social issues are fiscal issues, and they are inseparable. Social spending (the largest line item in federal and state budgets) can be contained only by strategic new policies building marriage.

Our chart showing the longitudinal relationships between trend lines of non-marriage, poverty, health insurance, economic downturns, unemployment, and illegitimacy metrics visually demonstrates that the single biggest factor driving our greatest social problems and uncontrollable social spending begins with marriage-absence. In addition, many other costly ongoing problems such as crime, violence, education, and mental health also correlate most highly with structural marriage-absence.

Supply-side socioeconomics is the only way to turn all these problems around. The principles are simple to understand. Most economists know that supply-side economics works better than any other model. Supply-side socioeconomics works the same way, but builds marriage instead of business. Add the two models together and we have the complete recipe to make American great again.

Once everyone understands that marriage-absence is a reversible structural problem, it can be turned around at the front end.

Existing demand-side social policies do not give citizens the choices they want and need when they have economic or serious family problems. Government offers only choices that kick off a downward spiral of consequences.

We establish inexpensive power tools everyone can easily use to keep their marriages on track. That is almost always everyone’s first choice – and the reason why most people will prefer it over existing policy. We empower individuals to fix their family problems and get ahead.

We can easily knock $200 billion off current social spending (currently in excess of $1.1 trillion) by focusing on marriage-building policy. That puts us most of the way to balancing the budget with a total spending decrease of $500-billion.

The beauty of this model is that it works by harnessing self-interest, not forcing people to do things, and without dumping them in the streets with hard cuts.

For example, substance abuse is the greatest factor in divorce, domestic violence, and gun violence. It is also a central factor in the riots in Ferguson Missouri and other cities. Under existing law, the only way do deal with a family problem is to live with it or get a divorce. Our policy gives folks what they want. The responsible spouse has a power tool to drive the substance abuse problem out of the family. Nothing will clean out drug problems and violence in urban cores more effectively than citizens having the ability to grab the bull by the horns and send the problem packing.

Changes are needed to Health Care laws. Presently, many couples are forced to divorce to protect retirement accounts from depletion under Obamacare rules.

Changes must be made to welfare so that it becomes bridge financing that leads back to marriage. Married couples have twice the human resources and time needed to raise kids, get a better education, and get ahead.

No-fault divorce laws are a costly, combative mistake that must be replaced with our hybrid model where most divorces occur via an inexpensive “Mutual Consent” model, with a tightly-woven “Responsible Dissolution” method for cases involving serious issues. This will prevent most families from ending up bankrupt when marriage has to end. After a decade of development and vetting by lawyers and judges, Our policy model is ready to launch.

Marriage Savers is a particularly effective, proven marriage support model. Any couple can find a local support meeting and be guided out of marital troubles by a mentor couple who survived the same problem. These programs only need room space in any public building or church to bring about big increases in marriage rates and matching decreases in divorce and illegitimacy rates.

Our policy model promises shrinkage of demand for a wide variety of expensive consequential government programs such as mental health, remedial education, delinquency, incarceration, drug abuse, homelessness, suicide, and other problems. In addition, married couples pay taxes – something that and astonishing 45% of the nation does not do today.

Economic globalists will have no need to push for Constitutional or legislative changes to erase borders, import large numbers of foreign workers, or offshore their operations when American workers become the educated, motivated workforce businesses need, and taxes can shrink to levels making American manufacturing more competitive.

Voters will no longer feel the need to vote for Democrats to stay above water after Republicans drain the swamp. It is well known that married voters are the ones most likely to be Republican and to attend Church too.

One does not have to be educated, rich, or powerful to understand and benefit from marriage. When we stop destroying marriage in the middle and lower income groups, America can and will be great again.

© 2016 David Usher – All Rights Reserved



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