Common Sense Presupposes Something in Common - Granite Grok

Common Sense Presupposes Something in Common

Dr-seuss-character-list-clipart-free-clip-art-images-dr-seuss-character-clipart-3116_1089Seuss-gate, if you’re not aware, involves the snubbing by a School Librarian in the People’s Republic of Cambridge to a gift of books by Melania Trump. Dr. Seuss, you see, is racist propaganda.

“You may not be aware of this,“ she continued, ”but Dr. Seuss is a bit of a cliché, a tired and worn ambassador for children’s literature. As first lady of the United States, you have an incredible platform with world-class resources at your fingertips.”

She goes further. “Another fact that many people are unaware of is that Dr. Seuss’s illustrations are steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes,” she claims.

This feels like a virtue signaling overdose except that it’s Cambridge. In Cambridge they don’t just drink the Kool-Aid they manufacture it and force feed it to future generations via every available conduit including the library and the librarians.

Which leads us to the problem of the day. Common Sense, as Mark Steyn explains below, requires that we have something in common. If the election of Trump tells us nothing else (nationally) it is that large chunks of America do not have anything in common. And without something in common we cannot possibly agree on what is culturally, socially, or politically sensible.

You’d think it an excellent motivation to restore federalism. Block grant everything to the states while you roll back the federal power, but we’re talking about fascists doing fascist things proclaiming themselves to be the anti-fascists, trying to silence such discussion because it’s racist twaddle spewed by White Supremacists.

The middle ground is painfully absent and nowhere in sight. I know this because there are people I know who have swallowed whole the Trump=Nazi narratives without question. Hillary supporters who are more bitter than Hillary, if that’s even possible. In such soil, it is difficult to plant or grow anything.

Here’s Mark on Tucker Carlson making his point.

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