Conservative Refocus

Barry Secrest

Is common sense finally making a comeback  in the US ?

It's been nearly three very long years since we began addressing the proverbial death of common sense in America and what it prophetically entailed for our future, and yet a funny thing seems to have happened on the way to Utopia.

We can now begin to sense the formidable torque of an ideological pushback, by the Civil Society itself, from those who not only reside in our heartland, where logic formerly slumbered undisturbed by the goings-on of the "intellectual" Metro-Elites, but even in the fringe areas of the inner cities and beyond.

Something truly monolithic is stirring; what on earth could it be? Not the least of which to consider is the fact that, when the Republican Primary began, only about half of the contestants willingly classified themselves as Conservative.  Now all of them are practically falling all over themselves, some even ready to undertake a blasted polygraph test, to prove their Conservative credentials.

However, back in early to mid 2009, it was indeed a scary time for any and all things Conservative--and yes, even in the heartland. Talk of Left-Wing, anti-Liberty designs, and even censorship, along with a virtual takeover of the Government by Marxist inspired Statists was being bandied about in hushed tones all over America's now liberally-blighted plane. Liberty and its constitutional essence were being crowded back into the darkest of corners, while capitalism and its champions were becoming relegated to a lexicon belonging only to that of certain four-letter words.

That Which Must Not Be Named

During that painful period, the stories brokered outside of the Mainstream Media spoke to Leaders whose designs of community organizing, authoritarianism, collectivism,and even Saul Alinksy radicalism were relatively unknown to the populace, as a whole. In fact, many feared to even broach the subject of Statist collectivism and its sub-American authors in power, in any meaningful public forum, due to the extreme disparagement they were likely to receive. And then, of course, there was always the threat of being called a conspiracy theorist or, even worse, one of "Those people who hears voices inside of their head,"  typically forthcoming, if one but steps too far outside the box of conventionality. This, especially for those who ask the unanswered, outrageous questions, which would inevitably incite a slipstream of withering critiques, soon to arrive.

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