Don’t look now, but the US of A is a battlefield and you and I are in the middle of the fight.

Yes, I know, war hasn’t been officially declared, but make no mistake that this is a war that makes Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and now, Iran, look easy-peasy. 

That conclusion comes from the fact that we’re fighting for the future of our culture against an enemy harder to define than the no-longer-with-us Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Ironically, this gentleman — accountable for more generational deaths and terror acts than anyone of this century — was nicknamed “Mouse Ali” for his tendency to run to bunkers whenever threats appeared. This time he didn’t run fast enough.

No one with a head on their shoulders and a heart in their chest will miss him.

If you have any friends or loved one who died or suffered at the hands of IED’s during our ill-advised foray into Iraq, take a moment to smile at the justice of Mouse Ali’s departure. The Iranian regime was responsible for the vast majority of the very effective shaped charged explosives that did most of that damage.

Here’s to hoping his successor has a life script that steps toward something more meaningful than murder, madness, mayhem, and Muslim jihad.

By the way, do you find any irony in the fact that the protestors supporting those two people killed by ICE have now switched over to protesting our military bombing a guy who has recently killed 30,000 of his own country’s protestors?

It’s just another example of our society’s upside-down state-of-war. Here are a few more.

Fifty percent BS — Though the far-left likes to pretend that half of America is on their side, don’t buy the charade. Most Americans are conservative, mainstream, or somewhere in the middle of the political spectrum. That’s why today’s liberals spend so much time beating up on Trump and his administration. They don’t have enough people to win anything unless they con folks into buying their pretense and/or voting with them as a means of voting against Trump. 

Success is failure — Nothing marks insincerity better than a negativity obsession and refusal to endorse the success of the opposition. In theory, aren’t all national politics supposed to be about uplifting America? Watch any Democrat commenting on the news and if they don’t have a oppositional fact to criticize, they will invent one or pull up an old one. Do that long enough girls and boys and you lose your ability to see truth. Witness an example in Joe Biden at the recent memorial service for – being as nice as I can manage – race provocateur Jessee Jackson. I’m “a hell of a lot smarter than most of you,” mumbled former President Autopen. Actually, on reflection, as regards those buying into Jessee’s rap, in this particular instance he may have been right. 

Immigration as an act of war — Indiscriminately taking on people running from their bad reality, bringing their bad habits with them, refusing to assimilate, and exploiting their host country is an act of war, not compassion. Republicans have been passive and ineffective in addressing this matter until Trump took charge. He’s had to fight every step of the way and has had the courage to recognize this Democrat-led charge for what it was (cultural destruction), not what we were being told it was (cultural enhancement). 

The debt clock is on fast forward — Our national indebtedness is no longer a concern – it’s an emergency. 

Three things happen when a governance model fails: (1) There is great suffering (2) Confidence in historic success equations is shaken (3) Someone comes along with a “new” solution that promises remedies for our pain. That remedy will be predictably be authoritarian socialism. Our national debt is setting us up to replace an abused free-market system that has worked remarkably well with a fantasy system that has never worked for long anywhere. That’s war by very tricky means.

How might conservative thinkers and other realists best respond? Well, let’s start with the idea that being tolerant does not require us to tolerate the intolerant. 

That thinking comes from a former Marxist/Socialist — professor Sydney Hook — who later in his life figured out that the left was full of baloney. 

We can remain good and compassionate people without embracing the nonsense of those who hate us. 

That list included race hustlers — rainbow activists — left-minded protestors — habituated baby mamas — liberal extremists — socialists/communists/nihilists/anarchists and other political opportunists — people of perversion — drug addicts — criminals — power-tripping politicians — and far too many immigrants, legal and otherwise, who are flooding and robbing our country.

 Yes, we are at war and we don’t have to surrender to it. We can stand firm without hating anyone.

 Does our “no” really mean “no?”

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Carl Mumpower is a practicing psychologist and former member of Asheville City Council. He can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .