The Wokeness of Common Sense
I’ve said this before and I’ll probably say it again. There’s a reason that common sense has a high value. That value is derived as a wave of probabilities. Take that old saying about folks who live by the sword die by the sword. Sword guys can have lots of sword encounters, but sooner or later there is an unusual probability that kind of washes up on the shore, and poof, you lose the sword encounter. It’s just common sense. I think that’s where the quit while you’re ahead concept may have originated. In other words, fate doesn’t always punish stupidity, but it always punishes habitual stupidity. Duh, that’s just common old horse sense.
It is truly amazing to me that politicians are the best source of illustrations for these kinds of common sense ideas. Look at Rod or Ron down there in Florida. Whatever that guy’s name is. A couple of months ago he was being eyed as a candidate for the big office, but he hadn’t applied a whole lot of common sense to what he did to attract attention to himself as a white (ish, thank you George) right wing (ish) rebellious bad boy who could perhaps out-outrage even the master outrager himself. But… Seems Rod or Ron Di De Da has a past and in his past he had perhaps out done the outrage by pushing to pass Florida law to his personal benefit and limiting what people can say and what people can do and even what people can be. Even if what they are is because of who they are. It’s just common sense that folks will be offended by some if not all of those actions.
But Mr. Di De Da doubled down on offensive and actually attacked Mickey Mouse. It’s just plain old common sense that you ain’t going to win anything by attacking a cartoon character because the character in the cartoon says you can’t insult people. I have trouble considering that event as an example of woke. I see it more as an example of dumb. Mickey has the right to say what he likes, especially if he is not harming anyone. It’s kind of a common sense calculation. Mickey is the founding father of the Magic Kingdom. Does anyone think that the Magic Kingdom could live up to its hype if it litmus tested every visitor to the Kingdom for wokeness?
What if we created a conspiracy theory to kind of expose the blatant stupidity of this whole sordid affair? Wouldn’t that be fun? I mean if that Georgia Peach with the recently moistened lips can create one, then so can we. What if we told R or R Di De Da that the CDC, on a tip from Dr. Fauci, found a wild African virus that causes woke to occur in humans? The scary part of this virus is that it is transmitted by telepathy. If you hear an actual woke thought once, it will invade your brain until you are all woke, commonly known as the state of being awake. The Gov has been exposed to all multitudes of ANTIFA members who are radical leftists and have demonstrated wokeness in his presence and unfortunately Mr. Di De Da is now infected and sadly doomed. It was the Deep State that discovered he’d been exposed, apparently at a pizza parlor in Washington DC, and they just can not afford to buy him the Oval Office seat they once thought they could. What if he turned woke in the middle of a four year term? Fortunately, the application of just a smidgen of common sense will show that none of the above can occur. Viruses can not be transmitted by telepathy and the Oval Office can not be purchased. Besides, the Deep State wouldn’t allow any of this to get out so this whole conspiracy theory has to be made up.
This common sense issue seems to be a defining issue for the current GOP, because sometimes their moral sense precludes them from using common sense. Does anyone really think there will not be a backlash against these Republican inquisitionists? Punishing women for being women has been popular with men in power forever. It has always ended the same way. Women suffer to a point, then the women push back. I think these guys have forgotten that women used to not be able to vote. Then they got together and flexed their political muscles and prohibition came about. It was an idea which was not ready for mainstream consumption as it were. People like to drink and get drunk. Prohibiting them was a dumb idea, but it seemed correct at the time. If you’re a woman and your old man gets drunk, then comes home to beat you up every night after a stop at the bar, you might want to prohibit your old man from buying booze too.
Prohibition was one of those common sense things that dawned on everyone later. But there are some common sense things that really should never be put off until later. I suspect that there may not be a lot of common sense displayed at a famous hotel down in Florida. I doubt that it was something that a little rich kid from the Big Apple would have experienced growing up. It’s just common sense that if you’re trying to take mementos from your sojourn in the White House marked top secret and various of your lawyers are saying no way do you take those things and you do it anyway, you are demonstrating a decided ignorance, at least of common sense.
The group that still floors me due to their total lack of any vestige of common sense are the Big Orange cover bands. Sarah Huckleberry is not going anywhere with that Karen act. Greg can’t even keep the lights on in Texas. All of Idaho has lost touch with reality and are making it up as they go along. Common sense should alert some of those ranchers out there that you can put up fences, but if a cow wants to go visit a neighbors ranch she’ll go visit in spite of those fences. But there’s all these guys and gals trying their best to copy all the Big Orange-isms. Then there are the guys who want to burn the barn down to get the insurance. I mean that Freedom Caucus bunch was seriously talking about defaulting on the national debt. I doubt the insurance would have covered the loss, but then these guys don’t have a lick of common sense.
Let me think a moment…who are the people who make up the Freedom Caucus? Jimmy Jordan, Louie Gohmert, Mark Meadows, Scotty Perry and of course Mountain Laurel herself, along with her newish squeeze, David Koresh. Bastions of common sense one and all. Would you consider them as likely political long haulers? There may be a lot of folks who think of them in that manner, but one would have to wonder if those folks are the same bunch that wants to give kids automatic killing machines to right all their supposed wrongs, but would rather those same kids don’t read books which are too complicated for the Freedom folks to understand and that makes those books way too woke for a child to read much less for a child to listen to a drag queen read it to them. I just do not understand how listening to a guy who dresses as a woman, which is nearly hilarious to a kid, is more dangerous than an angry young man with a grudge and an AR-15. That angry young man is the leading cause of death in children. When did a kid die from listening to a drag queen? Common Sense, remember?
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