Americans No Longer Have a "Common" Sense

Don’t you love being lectured to by a sanctimonious prick like Sen. Chuck E. Schumer?  This man purports to speak for the American people.  He claims to be the arbiter of American values and common sense when in fact he understands nothing.  This man is a beltway troll with totalitarian aspirations.

Progressives, like Sen. Chuck E. Schumer, do not believe in the Declaration of Independence or the U.S. Constitution.  I’m reminded of the time when he and a handful of his colleagues demanded the IRS violate the First Amendment rights of Tea Party organizations.  Now he’s using the NRA and its members as a foil to take away our Second.  This man is a menace to liberty and the American creed.  It is time we call out these people.  We need to expose their ideology for what it is: Marxism.

Mark Steyn summed it up on Tucker Carlson’s show by stating, “for a people to have common sense, we must have something in common.”  I can honestly say this country hasn’t been this divided since the American Civil War.  Back then, the fundamental difference was between North and South.  Today, it’s between rural and urban America; blue state vs. red state.

Just to emphasize the division within our country, one only has to look to our churches.  There are places of worship where parishioners don’t bring a Bible, the gospels are forsaken, and Jesus Christ is an afterthought.  They have transsexual preachers who emphasize the importance of not just embracing the sinner, but the sin itself; inclusiveness is more important than salvation.

Last July, I visited Shiloh Battlefield and came across a book that I’ve seen many times before, but passed over.  Because of the polarizing era in which we live, I decided to buy it  and just finished reading.   I recommend, The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, & the Triumph of Anglo-America.  I know the title will irk the snowflakes, but this book is a fascinating read.  Here is an excerpt on the politicalization of churches and divisions therein:

Of the Calvinist churches, closest heirs to the Reformation, the Congregationalists were almost nonexistent below the Mason-Dixon line, the Dutch Reformed  and German Reformed few and far between.  The Presbyterian Church had divided, in several stages beginning in 1837, into a southern-centered “Old School” denomination and a northern “New School.”  The latter was close to Congregationalism in Pennsylvania and the Great Lakes, overtly antislavery by the war’s outbreak, and a favorite church of Yankee businessmen.  The official regional separation came only as the war began.  Upon retiring back to Pennsylvania in 1861, ex-President James Buchanan, an old Presbyterian, refused to join the New School Church.

Church separatism was sectional politics by another name.  The Southern Baptists, too, broke away in 1845 to become a separate, pro-slavery church.  The Southern Methodists had done so in 1844.  The Southern Presbyterians not only defended slavery but worked up a biblical theology on its behalf.  As late as 1864, they formally avowed that “it is the peculiar mission of the Southern Church to conserve the institution of slavery and to make it a blessing both to master and slave.
 

No industrializing nation could have produced such theology, but that was part of what the South lacked: factories.  In 1860, Dixie had just 16 percent of U.S. manufacturing capacity, 35 percent of the railroad mileage, a small sliver of the bank deposits, and under one -third of the nation’s white population.  Northern states had manufactured 97 percent of the country’s firearms and 93 percent of its pig iron.  City dwellers constituted 36 percent of the 1860 population of the North, but only 9.6 percent in the South.

Prior to the Civil War, the citizens of the United States didn’t have common sense because they didn’t have anything in common as a people.  We have reached that point in 2017 and I’m afraid it will only get worse.