Common sense and politics should not be an oxymoron; but can politicians really be as stupid as they appear or is it a matter of some kind of disease that infects the breed? For example, is Caesar Bush really an idiot or does he just talk and behave like one? But looking at the “leadership” of America throughout the question is a legitimate one of all of these. And no sane person can fail to see our prospects of better leadership is no better whether Republican or Democrat. Which, for example, is really going to secure our borders, without which all talk of “national security” is utter nonsense, and refuse amnesty to millions of illegal aliens?

When it comes to the best laid plans “oft gang agley” I’m an expert on the subject. One particular instance of gaining such expertise in plans gone awry at an early age comes readily to mind.

Notwithstanding Henry Thoreau’s expressed satisfaction with hoeing the weeds in his bean field “filling trenches with weedy dead,” kids being kids weeding was not high on my list of recreational activities; especially when there were more important things to do like fishing or hunting. And, being a kid, work was a matter of interpretation; if I had to do it, it was work; if I wanted to do it, it wasn’t (funny how that never changes). And, being a kid, just like Tom Sawyer I looked for the easiest way to get the job done.

However, unlike Tom who had unwitting victims of his con readily at hand to escape personal drudgery I was left alone to my own devices. So it was that I nearly burned down one of the cabins on our mining claim.

It was summer and the weeds, almost all foxtails, were really dry; a real fire threat. But, I figured, I was smart enough to keep the fire from getting too close to the cabin. And think of all the time and energy I would save in the process. So, laying the hoe aside and striking a match, I lit the stuff off.

It’s truly amazing how fast fire travels in dry weeds. In no time at all it had reached the side of the cabin. It’s equally amazing how fast a kid can move when inspired by the image of a grandfather with belt in hand, ready to administer the appropriate punishment for catastrophic lazy foolishness.

Inspired by the threat of certain punishment at the hands of grandad I immediately, with my bare hands, began to throw copious amounts of sand and dirt upon the threatening flames. My effort would have shamed the most industrious badger going after a ground squirrel.

Helped along by a legion of guardian angels, I managed to extinguish the impending holocaust. Only then did I wonder why, in my “planning,” I didn't have the presence of mind to have a bucket of water handy? Simple; the stupid cabin wasn’t supposed to catch fire! Also, lacking the niceties of electricity and indoor plumbing I would have had to pump the water from the well by hand, and you just didn’t pump a bucket of water unless you really needed it. I was the innocent victim of a plan gone awry. I chopped the rest of the weeds with sore and bloody hands.

Stupid! Certainly; and looking back I can only wonder at such stupidity on my part even as a kid. But nevertheless, there it is; a constant reminder from my past that I have done some really stupid things.

Common sense should have dictated at the very least a bucket of water and a shovel, not just a hoe should have been on hand. That I had not attended to these common sense matters was proof of definite malfunction in brain processes.

Folks, if we are hoping, many praying, for common sense to come to the rescue and prevail among our elected leaders the prospect for such a thing is dismal. In fact, many of the actions on the part of politicians easily equate with the lack of common sense on my part burning those weeds without the essential water and tools at the ready. Stupid!

But politicians are not stupid. They gain elected office through making deals for money; then they stay in office by keeping those supplying them the money happy by legislation increasing the wealth of their supporters. And while not being stupid here is where their acts of stupidity, their lack of common sense derive through greed and avarice, the lust for power and authority over others making them eunuchs of common sense.

That this is an evil system of government that can only aid increasing such evil and the suffering of the great majority of people who are struggling day by day to just make a living is inconsequential to those who rise to power and authority by those who amass wealth through the mechanism of wage slavery. And the mass invasion by millions of illegal aliens from Mexico, that barbarian nation using America to dump its refuse population plays directly into the hands of the powerful whose only interest is in slave labor in order to increase the wealth of the powerful few.

In Key Largo, Bogart tells Rocco he knows what the gangster wants: “More.” To which Rocco replies, “Yeah, that’s it! More!” The line may well have been taken from Jesus who pointed out the love of money is the root of every kind of evil. What does it take to satisfy people like Rocco? More! And those who would increase riches are seldom people of virtue, but on the contrary the distinction between gangster and those “within the law” become quite blurred, and as a class none so epitomize Rocco than politicians.

Those among our elected leadership dancing to the tune of the ACLU intent on either making America over into its image or destroying America will do nothing to prevent the mass invasion of millions from Mexico since all from Caesar Bush on down see only the money generated from slave labor benefiting only the wealthy who pay to elect and keep their politicians in office, not the suffering of American citizens being extorted by taxation without representation to pay the bills.

Long ago it was obvious government jobs were outpacing those in the private sector when it came to wages and benefits. In this manner the number of drones feeding at the public tax trough was being rewarded far in excess of the ordinary working class. In this way a Federal Caesar and lesser state vassals has gained such power and authority as to disdain the masses of people who are becoming nothing more than slaves to this despotic tyrant promising “Forty acres and a mule” to the millions of Mexicans invading and colonizing America.

This worked for corrupt Carpetbaggers and Scalawags intent on punishing and plundering a defenseless South following Lincoln’s War. But the result was a nation divided despite Lincoln’s plagiarizing rhetoric. And the pandering of politicians for votes distinctive of the class has only continued to divide America.

It may take a 9/11 here in my native state to get the attention of politicians who are selling out and betraying us for power and authority, for the sake of slave labor and the “Latino vote.” But whether or not there is no discounting the fact California is fast becoming a nightmare of wage slavery as a consequence of this lack of common sense on the part of our “leadership” to deal with the growing nightmare of millions of illegal aliens from Mexico.

Of this I am certain. While I may have been saved from my own act of stupidity by divine intervention from burning the cabin down, I wouldn’t look for such intervention on the part of either California or America when the leadership acts so stupidly it appears to believe it can burn the weeds while not having the proper tools on hand to prevent the flames from threatening the cabin. That such tools are not available is not the fault of those possessed of common sense, but the fault of those like the ACLU and others that believe you can burn the weeds without the necessary tools on hand to prevent catastrophe.