Self-Serving Politicians Spawned Today’s Festering Dystopia

Voltaire’s purported remark about “common sense” not being so “common” has no greater application than modern Democrats and their philosophies. The 18th-century French philosopher Voltaire is to have once remarked, “Common sense is not so common” when assessing the lack of logic and basic reasoning prevalent in France during the Age of Enlightenment. He certainly had a knack for distilling his views of humanity in that era. The dominant questions confronting society in that time were markedly different than those which the U.S. currently faces, but his stark observation can still be applied to a distinct segment of American society...