Common Sense

Before anyone beats me to it, I'm claiming the name The Common Sense Party of the United States and forming said party as a union of Americans who reject the idiotic notions, misinformation, disinformation, secrecy, ulterior motives, and exploitation of ignorant Americans that pervades politics in the US and embrace rationality as a guiding principle.

The first principle that must be embraced here is that in the US the terms "liberal" and "conservative" have been turned on their heads. Plainly speaking, the US was founded on liberal principles pertaining to both civil and economic rights. So, Americans who embrace civil rights, are by definition conservative Americans. And, those people who would sacrifice their civil rights are not conservative, but rather thay are fundamentally anti-American radicals. They're just too stupid to to recognize this fact. The formation of the existing constitution, adopted a decade after initial efforts to confederate the original colonies, was a product in part of the weakness of the original confederation regarding taxing authority and provision for defense. So, it is as well contradictory to be anti-tax and conservative. Those claiming to be both are...you got it--stupid. To denounce "tax and spend liberals" is stupid on more levels than just the fact that it is the role of the federal government to spend money to "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." It stupid because if you spend without an income (taxes) you accumulate debt. If you do too much of this you will be overcome by interest which must be paid on the debt and will not be able to ever pay off your debt. And, then you're fuct.

And, this country has indeed become so fuct by the clowns running the show, that we need to reaffirm common sense as a national quiding principle.