America has long been known as a “common sense nation” because common sense is the key to understanding American original designs at all levels. Now, President Trump and his “common sense revolution” may succeed in making America a common sense country again.
Undeniable rights and self-evident truth are central ideas of America's founding. These ideas are also central ideas for a philosophical school known as “common realism,” inspired by Adam Smith, Thomas Reed and other representatives of Scottish Enlightenment. In Arthur Herman's words, “Commonsense realism was effectively the official belief of the American Republic…” As historian Allen Guerzo explained in “American Heart,” he wrote, “The Civil War.” Before the “all major intellectuals” was a pupil of Scotland's commonsense realism. ”
The founders were true revolutionaries and believed that people could do their own work thanks to their common sense.
That's what the American founders were With guide By the ideas and thoughts of the general realist. In particular, Jefferson, Madison and Hamilton were thoroughly trained in common sense realism by the teachers who brought those ideas and their ideas from Scotland to America.
Today, the centrality of Scotland's commonsense realism towards the establishment of our country and its continued sense of purpose is unclear. The founders will be amazed at our ignorance towards the men who influenced their work. Certainly, it was a struggle – for over a century, American academia has worked to erase the memories of what was once known by all Americans.
Of course, academia also works hard to destroy “common sense” in normal usage, men and women are arbitrarily designated categories, and all English professors' orders are violent. It claims to be to support the rebellion. As a resourceful friend of mine, I like to say, “I say what you want about liberal arts, but they found a cure for common sense.”
Thomas Payne was a great champion of ordinary common sense at the time of his founding. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of Payne's short book, Common Sense. This pamphlet is a bestselling American book in publication history and remains present, and was read aloud in taverns and village squares. It had a critical impact on the sentiment of the American people in support of the revolution. Payne transformed the spotlight of common sense in monarchy with a devastating effect.
“One of the most powerful natural evidence of the stupidity of the king's genetic rights,” Payne wrote. Lion's ass. ”
The wild and crazy idea of the founder was that people are sovereign. At the time, this structure was a contradiction. The monarch was sovereign. To say that the American people are sovereigns means that the Americans will rule and the American government will represent the people. Talk about turning the world over!
The founders were true revolutionaries and believed that people could do their own work thanks to their common sense. Today, progressive was to dismantle the founder America from the beginning, but Americans often justify their claims of power by asserting that they lack sufficient common sense to control themselves. there is. It is a backward reference to the founder's fundamental role in common sense in America.
Certainly, we feel now engaged in the Titanic struggle to determine America's future. Perhaps the best way to understand the meaning of that struggle is to see it as an effort to restore the rules by the common sense of the American people. President Trump and his common sense revolution were exactly what patriotic Americans longed for and perhaps America had longed for.
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