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Also because it's clearly a misnomer. "common sense" is ironically not that common 🙃

A revolver in the hand of every youngin you say?

Thought-terminating cliché, it’s used to dismiss arguments and shut down critical thinking. It’s a tactic associated with cult language.

Because there isn't a real reason besides idiocy and hate, if they try to rationalize it, it falls apart, they have to face or give away that they're just hateful idiots. Saying it's "common sense" is an easy scapegoat to tidy up the truth, even if it's just for the benefit of their cognitive dissonance.

It's a way to pretend their opinion is reasonable without having to justify it.

in addition to the reasons (rationalizations) other commenters have covered, the reason (casuality) that they reuse this particular phrase so much is because it's commonly used in the media they consume. from limbaugh to rogan it's always been a staple.

They think that way because that's as far as their thoughts go. They do not have a deeper reason. They're just judgemental morons that jump to conclusions to make themselves feel better.

The "common sense" answer is generally broad and vague. It purposefully avoids nuance and reality. "If I want to build a garage on my property, why does the government need to be involved?" That person doesn't think of the drug dealer doing that to cook meth right next door and possibly blow up the block or the idiot that doesn't understand how to build a structure and it collapses in the first stiff wind.

Sheeesh, and ya all wonder why no one listens to the left.

If you know shit about topic, you can only skim the surface. That's common sense. More police = less crime. More military = less risk of being attacked. More goods = smaller prices. That's common sense.

What it doesn't account for is, for example, too much police = more corruption, too much military = expansionist ideas, too many goods = oversaturation and sharp drop in said goods. Because that requires deeper knowledge. Yes, not much deeper, but you need to know these things are in fact factors, and that the problem is more complex than what's seen at a glance.

Edit: Forgot to answer why it's overused by racists etc. If you know black do most crime out of all, it's common sense to want them pacified. If you know drugs are bad and mexicans are known for cartels, it makes sense to not want mexicans which can be smugglers. It all falls apart as soon as you read on it or do anything, but what these people have most of is willful ignorance.

Depends how u interpret what people say. If someone where to say 13% of the population in the us commit 50% of the crime. Some would interpret that as wow maybe we should target our resources at that 13% to prevent said crime. Then u can have a discussion about if said targeting of resources should be called dei policy or fascist targeting of minorities.

The right would argue "more police = less crime" and the left would argue "something something disadvantage let's not address the crime problem with police cos that's racist or fascist". Common sense would tell us that perhaps cops prevent crime and perhaps targeting those resources at the heigh crime areas would reduce crime. So u tell me what's the common sense solution here?

BTW that stat about 13% is true according to the FBI (yes it was the same under bidden so it's not trump fucking with the stats)

For me, it is common sense that arrest quotas are a terrible idea, because one of my great-grandfather was sent to a gulag due to that. For business types, it's just "efficiency".

The point is "common sense" is the justification people gove when they don't have reasons for their beliefs.

I assume and hope you could give 1 good reason for each of those things you do.

Yeah I'm a little confused by this. It's probably an american thing.
If >50% of your voters pick a racist party, racism must be "common sense" over there.