A Little Common Sense

I honestly hate to help the left. Unfortunately however, being the compassionate caring human that I am, I can not help but follow my nature.
So here goes....Listen up progressive guys and gals...and you just may learn something.
Since the election you’ve harped, over and over, on how it isn’t your stance on the issues that most Americans find appalling, it is simply the 'framing of the message'. You say the Republicans ‘defined’ their message better.

Per Chuck Graham(D) 24th District Rep. from Missouri...

“You can’t let the other side define what the issues are. We need to define ourselves better as Democrats and the Democratic Party. We need to be talking about the things that matter to people. We need to understand why they vote the way they do. And we need to make sure we’re speaking to those issues.”

Do you know what, he’s right. But, would you like to know what really matters most to ‘the folks’? What they really look for in ‘the message’? Common sense. That’s it. Not elitists spouting from academia. Not rich Northeastern spoon-fed neo-moralists telling them how they pity, and thus honor, the poor. Not lawyers, made rich feeding off the coffers of large corporations, telling them how those very same corporations are the root of all evil. But instead, simply common sense.

And you know what libs? You are not getting off to a very good start.

Lets look at the way you’ve handled two somewhat similar situations in the news recently.

First we have Larry Summers, president of Harvard University. He had the gumption, yea even the audacity, to state though somewhat sheepishly, what most right thinking sensible people already believe. That men and women are inherently different. That they think differently. That this difference can and does affect one’s performance and decision making. This, progressives, is that elusive ‘common sense.’

From ‘Brain Differences in Males and Females’ Tarleton State University:

‘Because of the physical differences in brain morphology, men and women use their brains in
different ways. Men tend to rely on single cues to process information and make judgments (Heim, 2001). When shown a series of photographs and asked to explain the emotion that was depicted, men tended to observe only broad, obvious cues. Women, on the other hand, noticed not only the obvious cues, but also the subtle cues. As a result, women tended to identify the correct emotion more often than men, but they took slightly longer to do so (Heim, 2001).
Spatial ability is located in the left hemisphere (Peek, 2001). Because this area tends to be larger in men than women, men had an advantage in hitting targets, mentally manipulating maps, compute mathematical problems, and breaking items into their basic components (Sutter Health System, 2001). By comparison, women scored lower in hitting targets and computing math problems (Chadwick, 2001). Researchers noted that when asked to manipulate maps, women changed the physical orientation of the map itself; men, however, could make the perspective change in their heads. Women had a more “global” understanding of word problems than men, and tended to understand how mechanical gadgets worked on a “theoretical level” rather than on a technical level (Eby, 2001).’

Interesting...

So how have you reacted to Mr. Summers blasphemous comments? His ‘freedom of speech’? By crying for his head. By forcing apology after apology from a man who made the unfortunate mistake of stepping on your PC toes. You do not back him. Do not fight for his speech that is obviously ‘protected by the first amendment.’

Alas, ‘the little people’ see this for what it is.

Contrast the above, to the way in which you have dealt with our next little item of interest...

Mr. Ward Churchill, the professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado.
A man that has called the innocent men and women killed in the 9/11 massacre ‘Little Eichmanns.’ The man who stated:

'As to those in the World Trade Center ... Well, really. Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire - the 'mighty engine of profit' to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved.'

And...

‘One of the things I’ve suggested is that it may be that more 9/11s are necessary. This seems like such a no-brainer that I hate to frame it in terms of actual transformation of consciousness.’

And...

‘I want the state gone: transform the situation to U.S. out of North America. U.S. off the planet. Out of existence altogether.’

OK, well that was fun.

And how have you, the left, treated this ‘great thinker’? With awe.

‘His first amendment rights must be protected.’ ‘He has the right to his beliefs. This is America after all.’ ‘To fire him would violate his civil rights.’

‘Regular Joes’ see right through this.

And here is what they see. A party who attacks a man for stating what is simply common sense to most right thinking humans. A man, shredded by the left for stating a fact(though many may not like to face it)of life. A party that does nothing to protect this man’s freedom of speech. While at the same time, screams bloody murder when the ‘freedom of speech’ of an anti-American, anti-Semitic, pseudo American-Indian screams for death to America and its people. They see a party that hates America, and thus, them personally. This is what they see.

Is this the ‘message’ you want to send? Is this how you ‘define’ your position? Is this your ‘common sense’? Because this is exactly how the average American perceives you. And this is why your party as it is now ‘defined’, is destined to be voted, in your beloved Mr. Churchill’s words...’out of existence altogether.’

Crossposted @ BNN