Commonsense

Normally as a person matures hopefully they develop what we call commonsense.  Somehow as a nation we have lost that ability.  In today’s reality commonsense has been replaced by political correctness which is the exact opposite in most cases.  Does the fact that we allow students from countries who hate us to come here and learn in our universities and then over stay their visa’s or return home and use their education to build weapons against us make any sense let alone commonsense?  We say it’s right to put restrictions on legal gun owners and purchasers when it’s the illegally obtained guns that are usually involved in shootings.  How does stripping law abiders of their guns that are used to protect society make any sense at all.  We know there is nothing we can do about the millions of illegal guns on the street now so why do we feel we have to inhibit the rights of those who legally have the right via the Constitution to own weapons for sport or to defend themselves. 

Commonsense also tells us that in order to work efficiently government has to find ways of compromise yet political correctness has influenced so many legislators to the point that any real compromise is impossible.  It seems that when we elect some politicians to high office they lose the ability to think for themselves, they allow their party hacks to do their thinking for them.   

Commonsense tells us that when we see a TSA agent frisking a crying 80 year old woman and allowing a person in a burka to pass with just a few questions and no pat down, that maybe something is amiss with our regulations.  Isn’t this is a case where political correctness has inserted it’s stupidity in our system.  The system of Tenure is another thing that defies commonsense.  Our nation’s work places are full of people who really don’t deserve to draw a paycheck, they are there because tenure has made it impossible to fire them.  It is also rampant in our education system, in many cases the teachers union has put the value of the teacher who is not performing above that of our children’s education.  When in our history did we discover that we should honor time served over the value of a great education?  Great teachers are let go for budget cuts rather than the teacher with the poorest grade performance.  

I wonder if the same is true for the Secret Service, does the guy with the poor aim get to guard the President?  Maybe even political correctness has its limits, that’s only commonsense, right? 

Our President seems to be afraid to use the words Radical Muslim Terrorist because some may be offended by it.  I’d rather see him offend a few and call it like it is, that’s just commonsense.  Where is the commonsense that allows radical Muslim clerics to preach hate in our cities under the guise of free speech?  Isn’t that similar to shouting fire in a crowded theatre?   When some cleric in a Mosque is telling people to kill the infidels, Christians, Jews and anyone else that doesn’t believe there are 72 virgins just waiting for them in heaven, it kind of seems commonsense would tell you that this is not what our forefathers meant to be called free speech.  There are so many more cases of political correctness gone wild that it would take a ream of paper to tell them all, isn’t it time to bring the commonsense we were born with back into this society we have done our best to destroy?

That’s my opinion, how does it compare to yours?