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September 4, 2003
Contact:
Ph: 760 753 5000 or Dick Woods, Campaign Manager, 760 753 2220
E: warren@warrenfarrell.com,
or farrellforgov@aol.com
Web: www.warrenfarrell.com
Dr. Warren Farrell's Official Statement Confronting
the California Democratic Party at their Convention, September 13,
2003.
The Democratic Party is my Party. It is the Party of sensitivity
and inclusiveness. Yet in some ways we are being insensitive and
exclusionary. We care about families, but are disenfranchising dads
after divorce. We care about education, but are ignoring why our
sons are less likely to graduate from high school and college, and
are neglecting the recruitment of male teachers. We care about inclusiveness,
but support scholarships for women only. We care about integrity,
but ignore paternity fraud. We care about health, but are ignoring
the six times greater suicide rate of our sons and the six year
earlier death rate of our dads. We care about jobs, but tax the
job creators until they leave the state. We care about minorities,
but miss how our failures disproportionately hurt minorities. We
call ourselves progressive, but fail to update policies from the
"women's crisis" of the 20th Century to the "men's crisis" of the
21st Century. We are driving dads out of the family, men out of
the party, and businesses out of the state. My "Ten Theses Toward
a 'Reformation' of the Democratic Party" will restore congruity
with our values and save the state billions. See
www.warrenfarrell.com.
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Dr. Warren Farrell, Democratic Gubernatorial
Candidate, Claims Democrats Have Driven Men Out of the
Party and
Businesses out of the State
Farrell to ‘Nail’ to the Capitol Door His “Ten
Theses Toward a ‘Reformation’ of the Democratic Party”
CARLSBAD, Ca. Almost 500 years after Martin Luther nailed his 95
theses to the door of the castle church at Wittenburg, Dr. Warren
Farrell, with a Ph.D. (in political science) in his pocket and
a “hammer” in his hand, will “nail” to
the Capitol door in Sacramento his “Call for a Reformation
of the Democratic Party.” The “nailing” will
occur at 10:15 am pct. on Friday, September 5 at the Capitol’s
main entrance.
Dr. Farrell is the first California Gubernatorial Candidate to be
listed on the ballot as a “Fathers’ Issues Author.” His
Ten Theses envision a three-part Reformation. First, a Reformation
of the Democratic Party’s propensity for driving men out of
the party; second, a Reformation of the Party’s propensity
for driving businesses out of the state; and third, a Reformation
of the Democratic Party’s focus on pleasing constituencies
by putting out fires more than by preventing the fires.
First, the “men’s crisis.” The Democratic Party
has become the prisoner of feminists. Dr. Farrell congratulates the
women’s movement and the Democratic Party for being so successful
empowering women and empowering each other that they have virtually
ended the “women’s crisis” of the 20th Century.
Now, though, a “men’s crisis” has emerged: “men
today are where women were in the 1950’s; the ‘women’s
crisis’ was to the 20th Century what the “men’s
crisis” is to the 21st Century” says Farrell. Quite a
statement, coming from the only man in the US ever elected three
times to the Board of Directors of the National Organization for
Women (NOW) in New York City. Farrell challenges the Democratic Party
to take the lead with men as it did with women. “The Democratic
Party has pushed the pendulum of the women’s movement to the
point that feminism has become the one party system of gender politics.
Bureaucracies have been created that are both self-perpetuating and
anti-male. The Democratic Party must remember that as many families
have sons as have daughters; that when either sex wins both sexes
lose. Temporarily, we need less of a women’s movement and more
of a men’s movement; ultimately, we need a gender transition
movement.”
Second, business. Farrell believes the Democratic Party has driven
away business by taxation that kills the goose that lays the golden
egg of job creation. On the other hand it has not attacked vigorously
enough the tax loopholes such as off-shore banking that indirectly
increase the taxes of the honest taxpayer.
Third, prevention. Farrell proposes that the billions we spend on
prisons and social services can better be spent preventing the need
for those prisons and social services. He says, “The voter
who asks only ‘What will you do to solve the budget crisis
immediately?’ will get politicians focused on slashing health
care expenses today rather than, for example, creating the prenatal
care that minimizes the need for health care tomorrow. Budget crises
are made, not born.” His Ten Theses implore the Democratic
Party to stop solving budget crises defensively—to “take
the offensive by becoming preventive.” They all involve social
solutions that create financial solutions. The result, he feels,
is that we raise taxpayers rather than raise taxes. We create sound
families and sound budgets.”
For an early copy of “Dr. Warren Farrell’s Ten Theses
Toward a ‘Reformation’ of the Democratic Party” call
760 753 5000 or 760 753 2220, and leave your email; or email: warren@warrenfarrell.com
and/or farrellforgov@aol.com.
Dr. Warren Farrell’s Ten Theses Toward a ‘Reformation’ of
the Democratic Party
Social Solutions that Create Financial Solutions
- Equal Father and Mother Involvement, Especially if there
is Divorce.
Worldwide research reported in Father and Child Reunion makes
clear that children of divorce do best when they have equal
time with both
mom and dad. The savings are billions less for prisons, education,
special education, social services, and unwed teenage pregnancies...
When moms know that anything other than 50-50 parenting will
cost a court fight, there will be less taxpayer money spent
subsidizing
fights in courts and more balanced children at home.
- Universal prenatal care. An anxious or undernourished mom
means a child damaged for life. Nine months of prevention saves
ninety
years of intervention.
- A Men’s Birth Control Pill and a Paternity Fraud Bill.
A men’s pill means fewer children who are not wanted by their
dad because the dad felt tricked into fatherhood; a paternity fraud
bill means fewer men falsely named “dad.” Both
will reduce the child support enforcement bureaucracy that
currently,
at great
expense, chases down mens who are hiding from the fatherhood
into which they felt tricked.
- Intensive Communication Training Taught from First Grade,
with Simultaneous Retraining of Parents. Both families and businesses
are destroyed by poor communication—our inability to handle
criticism is our human Achilles’ heel. It is more cost-effective
to prevent divorce and business inefficiency than to repair it — to
communicate rather than litigate.
- Schools with More Male Teachers--Men Who are as Responsive
to the Needs of our Sons as our Daughters. For most of the 20th
Century
fewer women than men graduated from high school and college;
now the reverse is true. But we have thousands of programs and
scholarships
exclusively for women as if they were the sex in crisis. Boys
go from mother-only homes to female-only classrooms, and then,
without
positive male role models, we wonder why they join gangs. The
result is a “boys’ crisis.” The costs are emotional and
financial: increases in our sons committing suicides, leading to
Columbines, suffering from ADD, doing worse than girls socially,
emotionally, physically and in all subjects except math. Our neglect
of the “boys’ crisis” costs California billions
to “pick up the pieces” by hiring more teachers
per class, special education, and special schools. The solution
begins
with
confronting our double standard: when girls do worse, we blame
the schools; when boys do worse, we blame the boys.
- Prioritize Long-term and Win-win Economic Solutions. Caring
about labor means caring about businesses that create the jobs
for labor.
Which means creating incentives that attract business and jobs,
not taxes that drive them away. Work safety standards need stronger
enforcement
(to counter the easier profits of neglect), but workers’ comp
needs caps. The fiercest attack must be on tax loopholes such as
offshore banking that indirectly increases the taxes of the honest
taxpayer. California must increase its tax incentives for alternative
energy development, and the development of long-term pacts with Canada
that has 40% of the world’s fresh water supply.
- Update California’s Institutions to Reflect the Shift from
the “Women’s Crisis” of the 20th Century to the “Men’s
Crisis” of the 21st Century. Today men die sooner of all 15
leading causes of death; our sons’ suicide rates are increasing
even as our daughters’ are decreasing. These gaps are magnified
by Commissions on the Status of Women, and by Offices of Women’s
Health, even as we neglect equivalent studies for men. In California’s
universities, Women’s Studies without Men’s Studies create
a hostile environment for men that keep men away from the social
sciences. (See The Myth of Male Power and Women Can’t Hear
What Men Don’t Say for full documentation.)
- Empower our Daughters with Long-Term Female Empowerment
rather than Short-term Female Victim Power. The Women Industry—from
Diversity to Domestic Violence, from Affirmative Action to Women’s
Studies, from Family Court to Social Workers—is invested in
the magnification of women’s status as victim. The woman
who portrays herself as a victim gets power. Thus Female Victim
Power.
The dismantling of the Women Industry means billions of reduced
costs, and thousands of our daughters being self-empowered
rather than dependent
on victim power.
- Discourage the Government-as-Substitute-Husband. When the
state of California offers a mom more than the dad can provide
if she
does not marry the dad, it bribes the mom to “marry” the government—the
state turns itself into the Government-as-Substitute Husband.
We now know that children from poorer families living with both
mom
and dad do better emotionally and educationally than children
from wealthier families without dad. (See Father and Child Reunion.)
The
bureaucracies and social workers that oversee WIC, welfare,
food stamps, housing subsidies and the host of substitute dads
wastes
money that could better be spent on dad involvement. Money
is no substitute for daddy.
- Recognize How Our Neglect of Reforms 1-9, and especially
our Neglect of Fathers and Men, has had a Disproportionate Impact
on Working Class and Minority Communities. Ironically and
tragically,
the problems these reforms address have had a disproportionately
negative impact on the very constituencies -- African-Americans,
Native Americans and Latinas/os, the poor, the less educated — about
whom Democrats care deeply. Subsidized prenatal care is
crucial to poor women; the combination of Government-as-Substitute-Husband
and
the disenfranchisement of fathers after divorce has destroyed
poor families, and especially African-American families.
The
Democratic
Party has unwittingly supported dependency as if it were
afraid that a less dependent constituency would vote Republican.
For more information, see www.warrenfarrell.com, or email: warren@warrenfarrell.com or farrellforgov@aol.com.
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