Ukraine Common Sense Suppressed

Producers of The Daily Show, which used to be hosted by Trevor Noah, sometimes take cameras to the street and ask voters about the state of America, especially during a few months to a presidential election. Some answers are funny. Others ridiculous, but what lingers in one’s mind is the sadness, that during elections, people voluntarily give up common sense.

Common sense is how parents bring up kids. Don’t touch the kettle or heater with wet hands. Electricity will zap you. Look left or right before you cross the road. Wash your hands before you touch that hamburger.

Kids grow up and they embrace common sense. They even threaten younger brothers and sisters: I’ll tell Mom you didn’t brush your teeth.

Therefore, it is baffling when adult voters over 25 years have no common sense, when it comes to voting, a process that might find their sons and daughters in another part of the world, guns and drones ablaze fighting Tik-Tok creators.

Common sense is embalmed. That is why politicians on the campaign trail make Asia the enemy, when capitalism in Canada and the U.S. have profit-driven laws that send manufacturing jobs to China and other parts of Asia.

Common sense is embalmed when candidates for the White House use race as a problem. Blacks are out there to get you, when African Americans are fighting for the basic right to be alive, in the so-called greatest country in the world, and not shot in the back by police as they shot Jacob Blake, end of August 2020.

It is an issue because there are no records of white men shot in the back by the police, or shot because police thought they were going to commit crimes, by the nature of their whiteness.

Because common sense is embalmed, on hold, candidates convince voters that Americans should vote against each other, and not against capitalism, that has made them lose their homes to live in trailer parks and sons and daughters forced to join the army to keep the family home.

Because common sense is hanging, American troops are in Ukraine fighting Russia, a war they cannot win like the following:

1. Vietnam

2. Iraq

3. Afghanistan

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.