COMMON SENSE

In Colorado, a twelve-year-old girl is invited to an after-school art club, only to discover that it is a Gender and Sexuality Alliance “safe space,” where an outside speaker informs the children that if they are not fully comfortable in their bodies, they are transgender. [1]

The Walt Disney Corporation screams in outrage that the State of Florida prevents teachers from spreading LGTBQ doctrine until the third grade.

The education establishment acts like they own the children, not the parents, and can teach the children whatever the establishment wants; parents be damned.

We are living in the Age of the Absurd, according to conservative radio host Dennis Prager. Here are some of the outrageous claims he has identified that leftists profess with evangelical zeal: [2]

• Men can give birth.

• Biological men can compete in women’s sports.

• Defunding police will reduce crime.

• Race, not character, matters.

• Humans do not exist until they are born.

Within ten years, the Left has turned the world upside down:

• States push abortion laws that essentially legalize infanticide.

• Men can become women, and women can become men. A Supreme Court justice claims she cannot define what a woman is.

• Men can marry men, and women can marry women. Marriage has little meaning; so, why bother?

• Police are the problem, not the criminals.

• White supremacists are the nation’s greatest threat but are hard to find, unlike the real threat, which is easy to find and clearly seen on TV, as rioters destroy two billion dollars of property during the summer riots of 2020.

• The January 6 Capital break in is an insurrection, but none of the participants are armed, and many are let in by the police.

Everything is politicized today. The Department of Justice is politicized. It indicts Trump allies, like Roger Stone, Peter Navarro, Carter Page, Steve Bannon, and Michael Flynn but exonerates Hilary Clinton from destroying subpoenaed records from her private server, Eric Holder from refusing to respond to a subpoena from Congress, and Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe from lying under oath.

The military is politicized. Military brass openly criticize President Trump, thereby alienating potential recruits who voted for him, and vow to weed out “white supremacists,” leftist code for conservatives.

Even healthcare is politicized. The government essentially outlaws common, low-cost medications, like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, to treat COVID-19 because Trump used them. The government ignores treatments in general for the disease and instead forces people to get vaccinated, on pain of dismissal.

Our elections are corrupt. The Democrats wail that commonsense voter ID laws, prevalent throughout Europe, are wicked and must be outlawed here and that mass mailings of ballots, nearly impossible to validate when returned, are righteous and must be permitted.

Now, the party in power uses the national police to persecute and prevent their political opponents from holding office. They officially make us a banana republic when they send the FBI to raid Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.

So, what would our country’s founders think? Would they even choose to live here today? Back then, they thought that living here was worth dying for. They signed their own death warrants when they put their names to the twenty-seven grievances against the British Crown, included in the Declaration of Independence, signed on July 4, 1776. They drew a line in the sand; they were finished with the Crown.

Here are just a few of their grievances. A complete list is provided in the appendix to this book.

• He [King George] has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good …

• He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent higher swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance …

• For imposing taxes on us without our consent …

These grievances apply today, and some are included in this book, only using more modern language. For example,

• Our federal government and courts have enacted or are attempting to enact laws that are most unwholesome and violate our religious conscience by allowing abortion, same-sex marriage, and transgender rights.

• Our federal government and courts have created a multitude of new agencies to harass us, including 87,000 more IRS agents provided by the Inflation Reduction Act (hilarious doublespeak at its worst).

• Our federal government has imposed taxes on future generations without their consent by running up a national debt of $30 trillion through profligate trillion-dollar omnibus spending bills.

Thomas Paine published his pamphlet Common Sense in January 1776 to convince the average American to seek independence from Britain. According to some experts, the pamphlet sold 500,000 copies, when the population of the colonies was 2.5 million, and powerfully influenced American opinion.

Paine considered it ridiculous that a tiny island rule over a vast territory like America. He wrote,

Small islands not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. In no instance hath nature made the satellite larger than its primary planet, and as England and America, with respect to each other, reverses the common order of nature, it is evident they belong to different systems; England to Europe, America to itself.

So, it is with our country today, where 6 percent of the population [3], a social island calling themselves the progressive left, rule over the other 94 percent. A majority of Americans oppose the Left’s most cherished dictates, such as defunding the police, opening the borders, replacing capitalism with socialism, discriminating against whites, and familiarizing young children with homosexuality and transgenderism.

This book combines a modern version of Common Sense with a modern Declaration of Independence and proclaims twenty-seven grievances against the Left. When the Declaration was made, the Revolutionary War had already begun, and so today the Left is waging war against us.