It's the Stupidity, Stupid

[NanceGreggs]

It seems apparent that the old phrase "not enough common sense to come in out of the rain" has had its day - because we as a society used to count on something that apparently no longer exists: common sense.

Common sense was that thing most people relied on when their fellow citizens had been lied to, because we believed that coming in out of the rain didn't require an explanation more complicated than seeking shelter in a downpour.

We relied on common sense eventually kicking-in when anti-vaxxers noticed that it was the unvaccinated that were flooding our hospitals. We relied on common sense taking hold when anti-maskers insisted that their unmasked children be sent back to school - and their schools had to shut down as the virus spread as a result.

Where are we as a nation when common sense is no longer operative - when citizens stand proudly in a rainstorm while insisting that water isn't really wet, but is just another politically-driven hoax meant to make you believe that it is?

When common sense - that thing that tells you not to believe in anything that is not grounded in actual reality - becomes debatable, the Stupid win.

Don't let them. A nation ruled by the opinions of idiots devoid of common sense is a nation lost.

[Walleye]

1. The Alabama governor talking about the unvaccinated asked, where is common sense

[Whiskeytide]

5. Governor Me-Maw is generally a terrible person, and her pandemic ...

… policies have been pretty vanilla Republican. But at least some of her rhetoric has been pro vaxx. I guess that’s faint praise, but here in Alabama we’ll take what we can get.

[Walleye]

6. I liked the down home southern exasperation with stupidity. She wanted to say God they're dumb!

Of course if she were a good governor she wouldn’t be having all these people without vaccinations in her state. Maryland is doing pretty well. Republican leaders don’t believe in leading. They just react

[gab13by13]

14. They react,

to what ALEC, the Kochs, the Federalist Society, tells them to do. They don't even write their own bills.

[KS Toronado]

2. "opinions of idiots devoid of common sense"

Here's the source of the problem.....FQX non-news, Qanonsense, OAN, 7QQ Club, Breitbart, etc etc.

[gab13by13]

16. You forgot

CNN and MSNBC. Remember when they used to post Covid infections and deaths on every screen? How about "every" reporter declaring how great it is to have thousands of screaming fans packed like sardines for 3 1/2 hours. It isn't just the far right media outlets.

[Atticus]

3. If it was raining soup, anti-vaxxers would run outside with their forks. nt

[Native]

13. +1

[sarge43]

15. OK, another DUzy for your collection

[3catwoman3]

4. I have called it "uncommon sense" for...

…some years now, as so many people seem not to have any.

[BlueJac]

7. Great post Nance!

K&R 100%

[keithbvadu2]

8. When common sense ain't so common

When common sense ain't so common

[kentuck]

9. As Mark Twain used to say...

Don't argue with the stupid. They will just drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

[Stuart G]

21. Thank You for a Mark Twain quote...K and R..your quote, and remember: Stupid is Still Stupid

....Yes, repeat............Stupid is ....Still Stupid.................

[bigtree]

10. true, Nance.

...lot's of swagger behind stupid, these days.

[MissMillie]

11. This is eloquent, and spot on.

You should send it as a Letter to the Editor of you local paper.

[niyad]

12. Spot on, as always,

[Evolve Dammit]

17. Sort like the last 5 years with Orange Boy at the helm?

[bucolic_frolic]

18. To my deeply subliminal ear, MAGA World equates medicine with religion

and thinks the Federal Government should not establish medical rules, all the while MAGA wants to impose their own religious rules on everyone else. These people are crazy. No common sense, no brain, no thinking.

[ailsagirl]

19. Nailed it again, Nance!!

[ancianita]

20. No one with common sense goes along with "reality by consensus," a reality manufactured

by the billionaire ideologues and demagogues of their alt-reality media (see Grass Iz Purpil on Twitter).
Their political bag men obey that manufactured consensus or get publicly purged like Cheney, Kinzinger, and dirty donnie's CPAC hit list of fifteen others.

Would this trump enemies list show common sense about HR1?
Or is their stupidity only as right as a broken clock.

Senators

Richard Burr, NC
Bill Cassidy, LA
Susan Collins, ME
Lisa Murkowski, AK
Mitt Romney, UT
Ben Sasse, NE
Pat Toomey, PA


House Representatives

Anthony Gonzalez, OH
Jaime Herrera-Beutler, WA
John Katko, NY
Peter Meijer, MI
Dan Newhouse, WA
Tom Rice, SC
Fred Upton, MI
David Valadao, CA

Awesome post, Nance. Thank you.

[Dustlawyer]

22. I was saying this exact thing just the other day.

Seeing how many people out there still walking around unmasked and unvaccinated. Watching RW School Boards telling teachers to come to teach with COVID unless they have a fever…

Sadly watching my own cynicism grow by leaps and bounds.

[GopherGal]

24. Another cliche bites the dust: "Avoid it like the plague" is kind of over, too.

with the COVIDiots running around massless and vaxxless seemingly trying to get infected with the "hoax".

[Snackshack]

23. This slow pendulum swing...

That has been taking place over the last few decades (the 90’s is when I remember it starting) to a more “politically correct” society is where I place most of the blame for this.

Certainly as time goes by and society becomes more diverse and attuned to that diversity there are words, terms, or phrases that need to dropped from active status. I have no disagreement with that but the pendulum has swung so far now that in order to not offend anyone people with simply wrong opinions or point of views are treated as legitimate concerns that should be respected when just a few years earlier that opinion or POV would have been rightly dismissed and laughed at.

Today’s anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, stop the steal people are no different then a flat earth person and should have been shut down by the experts and MSM as soon as they started popping up. We would not put a person who thinks the Earth is flat in a seat at the NASA table to save the planet from a comet impact when their idea would be to just turn Earth so the thin profile is facing the comet and it will fly right by. Yet that is what we have done.

Just recently a Congressional Rep. in a Zoom meeting on temperature rise asked the people from the Forestry Service and BLM is there was anyway they could change the Earth or the Moons orbits to reduce temperature rise….?!? This guy is in congress and we are all very familiar with the guy who suggested injecting disinfectants. We need to claw back that space the “stupid” as rightly referenced above occupy right now.

Unfortunately this has been allowed to go on for so long it is going to be very difficult to do but we must or we will be a lost nation.

[ProfessorGAC]

27. Certainly Not Unbelievable

Or at least, the initial target group was selected from flat earthers, fake moon landing, types. That could have been a target base so when the new crazy stuff started popping up, they had a baked in following.
Not necessarily a precursor test, but a launch community.

[senseandsensibility]

29. Exactly.

Non college educated people used to have common sense. They needed it to survive. Now? Not so much is an understatement.