Do You Really Understand Conservatism or Common Sense?
By Russ Minary | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
In the very funny 1987 film, ‘The Princess Bride,’ the character Inigo Montoya clearly identifies a problem that plagues both culture and politics today: people use words without thinking, understanding or agreeing upon their meaning, which leads to needless mistakes, arguments and division.
We often use words like conservative and common sense, assuming that the average American knows what those words mean. But hardly anyone really understands or agrees upon their precise meaning. And there is no such thing as an average American. We are all spectacularly unique beings, unlike zebras or rats.
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