Common Sense: Correct change or a fashion statement?

I find myself at odds as Chicago enters its first non- incumbant bi-partisan mayoral election. I am stupefied by the idiotic rhetoric attitudes and complete lack of common sense.  It seems to have been doled out in truckloads in the fifties and bucolic grandmothers seem to still be able to share a parcel here and there, but now-a-days its just confused for correct change.

Common Sense.

Vital to our existence and entirely out of fashion.

How do we embrace the things that bring us happiness without the basics in "Common Sense"

     All people are equal,
     See the good in others,
     Be kind,
     Be thoughtful,
     Listen politely,
     Let others be heard,
     Speak up when its your turn,
     If you don't have something nice to say, shut yer trap.

All that stuff.

So maybe here and there over the next few months, I can find things that embrace the joys of common sense and also the ways we make it something entirely different.