Common Sense is Extinct

Would somebody please tell me when common sense went extinct? It happened so slowly that most of us were lulled into sleep and didn't notice it fading into the horizon. It's like listening to the sound of a drum hypnotically making us numb. The current polarization within our government is a case in point. Everyone has an opinion. Nobody has a solution. I nominate an ex-drug dealer to fix it. One of his mottoes is "Don't be a complainer, be a fixer." Why can't our government do that? (Yeah, no he can't run for office. It's that convicted felon thing.)Complaining about the other guy is just an exercise in futility, as unless there is forward movement on an issue, it's just beating a drum with a stick.Bam bam bam...I've heard a lot of nonrhythmic drums lately. It's election season, ya know...bam bam bam.Yawn. Instead we get Presidential edicts instead of cooperation and common sense. We get Congressional stone-walling rather than intelligence and wisdom. Our government grinds to a halt more often that it should, and when it's not stopping its work entirely, it's scheming and plotting on how to bypass the legislative process by subterfuge. We have power hungry people in office who could give a rip less about the regular folks. Afghanistan: yes, we're leaving. Too soon, no doubt. The policy of our government, even since Vietnam, is to leave a job unfinished. A lot of good men and women die because a job is left unfinished. Cut and run isn't common sense, it's a waste of lives. NDAA,"Green policy," the Keystone Pipeline, etc: we've got a lot of hidden agendas in these "acts" of legislation. People don't bother to check into them. I don't have a problem with green policies, as long as they are based on common sense and not someone's personal power agenda. I love the earth and its creatures and we should take good care of them. But it isn't cool when no one tries to balance the need for oil with the environment. It's not one or the other, it should be common sense to have both. I don't have a problem with anti-terrorist polices until it threatens the freedoms of law-abiding citizens. Gun Control is a simple power-grab by people with an agenda. Safeguards are important. Common sense is missing. We should be fixers not complainers. Point is, when everyone is pointing the finger at everyone else, nothing is being accomplished. Common Sense has gone the way of the Tyrannosaurus.