Common Sense and Being Heard

I think what felt like a total denial of American common sense in the pig in a poke November election now seems somewhat assuaged by the response, reaction, what have you, to the health care rush of the Last Self-Help Administration.

What G. K. Chesterton called "common sense" belongs to the common man; neither Hodge nor Godge, neither "energetic progressive" / socialist nor "obstinate conservative" / industrialist-capitalist. At heart the American heart and mind is Distributist unless led under the folly of either of these Scilla or Caribdis economical monstrosities.

And why is that? Because the common man in the West of Chesterton is cut from the fabric of Christendom. And no cynical executive branch of American governance is going to foist shoddy thinking of euphemisms and "just trust me" folly upon Americans. (The same package can and probably will be foisted on us with more smoke and mirrors, however. Count on it.)

The "Town Hall" disruptions are not conspiracies. They are the common man saying if you don't listen to me, I will raise my voice until I get heard, loud and clear. PARTICULARLY, if you are trying to shove something suspiciously like totalitarianism down our throats. Oligarchical ninnies shouldn't get their shorts in a bunch. After all, we are Americans; remember our beginnings. The template is still there.

And one last thing: the greatest folly of all is trying to pretend that Americans believe that government is a legitimate voice of true transcendence. As if. Ultimately, all of us must aim past these four score and ten, past good times and bad, past "health care," and Americans still remember this.

Ultimately, we must come face to face with the same Creator Who came among us, full of grace and truth, our Judge and our Hope. And THAT is the greatest common sense of all.