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What if everything we believe about crime, poverty, and social breakdown stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of cause versus correlation? Drawing from my personal experience as someone who served over four years in prison, I reveal the uncomfortable truth about what really drives America's most pressing social problems.

The destruction of the nuclear family—particularly in the Black community—stands at the epicenter of our societal decline. In 1960, 80% of Black children were born into two-parent families. Today, that figure has flipped completely, with only 20% having both parents present. This devastating shift wasn't accidental but resulted directly from well-intentioned government programs initiated under Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" that inadvertently incentivized fatherlessness.

During my time behind bars, I witnessed firsthand how virtually every young inmate shared one common factor: they grew up without fathers. Without paternal boundaries, boys lack discipline and direction, while girls often confuse sex for love, seeking male attention at increasingly younger ages—perpetuating the cycle of single parenthood across generations.

Similarly, our approach to drug policy reflects this same confusion between cause and correlation. It's not drugs that cause most crime—it's the artificially high cost of illegal drugs that drives users to theft and violence. If substances were truly legalized (not merely decriminalized with burdensome regulations), most drug-related crime would disappear overnight.

Current approaches to these problems—whether Trump's deployment of federal troops to high-crime areas or government intervention in private industry—treat symptoms while ignoring root causes. Central planning and control inevitably create unintended consequences, regardless of who implements them or how noble their intentions.

The solution isn't to reform these failed systems but to end them entirely. We must stop subsidizing behaviors that destroy families and communities while recognizing that some apparent problems—like recessions—actually represent necessary resets before stronger growth.

Are you ready for a radical reset that addresses causes rather than correlations? Join me in questioning the conventional wisdom that has failed us for generations.

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