Posted on 03/17/2025 12:54:41 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump declared that he and his supporters were “the party of common sense.” In his Inaugural Address on January 20, Trump returned to this theme. With his flurry of executive orders, he said, “We will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense. It’s all about common sense.”
I agree. But what is “common sense”? At the beginning of his Discourse on Method, René Descartes said that common sense was “the most widely distributed thing in the world.” Is it? Much as I admire Descartes, I have to note that he was imperfectly acquainted with the realities of 21st century America. If he were with us today, I am sure he would emend his opinion.
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Common Sense: Thomas Paine’s 47 page pamphlet.
Common sense in a world severely lacking any, will be perceived and construed as an extreme point of view.
It’s amazing to me that those of us raised by parents with common sense to HAVE common sense have retained ours....look at the changes through the years that have us all scratching our heads. Our parents never imagined we’d be facing the idiocy we’re bombarded with today. I never thought years down the road things would have changed so much! I guess it just comes down to life is indeed a mystery..not the life so much as the “living” it....ups/downs/bumps/bruises
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