Have you noticed how the liberal media avoids the words “illegal” and “aliens” when addressing the issue of illegal immigration.  It’s a duplication of the effort of the North American Man-Boy Love Club’s effort to conceal their mission of molesting children.  Calling illegal aliens “immigrants” avoids the central issue – these folks are violating the law when the cross our borders and again when they use fake identities to stay here.  That’s just the beginning of the greatest conspiracy in our country’s history to break down the rule of law.  This team effort

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involves politicians from both parties, employers wishing to side-step the self-corrections of our free market economy, and enablers wishing to get a feel good fix.   Replacing the rule of law with the rule of emotions or the rule of greed is a poor trade.  A society that corrupts or abandons justice inevitably betrays its future.  No one will be uplifted by a broken American Dream.

Bad guys do not think they are bad

If you’ve ever wondered how so many people do crazy, harmful, or evil things, look no further than the word denial.  Anywhere you find addiction you will find an equal measure of denial.  Thus the more you do something, the less aware you become of its impact.  People who pick their nose in public are usually in denial about how unpleasant it is to others.  Evil doers are especially prone to denial because the truth would impair their behavior.  People who do bad find a way to believe it’s justified or otherwise OK and politicians are no exception.  In the  Republican Presidential debates every candidate is practicing denial in one form or another.  And that’s from the party with the closest dedications to reason and reality.  Liberal Democrats often appear to be out of touch because they are.  An addiction to the promise of giving or receiving something for nothing is out of touch with reality — and thus very much in touch with denial.

U.S. gets no pass on accountability

Conservative Barry Goldwater once offered that “extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice.  And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”  He’d recognize we’ve lost our way on both counts in today’s America.  All three branches of government — legislative, executive, and judicial — are putting control before liberty.  Most Americans

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are passive or even supportive of this slide away from our traditions of freedom.  We don’t seem to believe that dark things that have happened to other cultures can happen to ours.  It’s already happening.  Spending beyond our means, spending tomorrow’s defense and Social Security dollars today and increasing citizen dependency on government are doing great harm to our society. These harmswill show up later – when it’s too late to alter the outcome.  It’s sort of like the guy who claims he can fly, jumps off the building, and for awhile, appears to be correct.

U.S. remains exceptional only by choice

Most liberal progressives bristle at the idea of American exceptionalism.  Their dedication to the inevitable mediocrity of socialism runs in competition to the extraordinary potentials of a responsible and free society.  Unfortunately, that’s not today’s America.  We’re trying to run a hybrid combo of crony socialism and crony capitalism that’s exceptional only because its dysfunctional.  We’ll remain a bright beacon to the world only if we make bright choices.  The values we talk and walk today will set the course for our future — and those must be good to work good.  The replacement of liberty, productivity, and responsibility with dependency, consumption, and entitlement is the left’s mission in word and deed.  Conservative thinkers should challenge this exceptional effort to corrupt America.  The side, right or left, which works the hardest will secure an exceptional future or assure our exceptional failure.

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Carl Mumpower, a former member of Asheville City Council, may be contacted at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it