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Over seven hours went into writing last’s week Palestine column. That’s about a minute for each of the allotted four hundred words. It took that long to research the points of truth and figure out what to say and how to say it. A smart guy could do it faster. When challenging liberal fantasy with conservative realty , creativity and persistency are fortunately IQ compensators.
Per confusions sown by leftist manipulators, like our current President, and conservative pretenders, like his predecessor, the word “conservative” has been dreadfully disfigured. I value righting that wrong, and this column, with liberal colleague Chris Dixon, has provided a fruitful weekly platform.
One should right their own house first, and I’ve appreciated the opportunity to annoy fellow Republicans selling political mischief as principled leadership. Foreign military adventurism, borrow and spend addictions, district gerrymandering, and the Constitutional piracies of the Patriot Act have nothing to do with conservatism – everything to do with the corruptions of political opportunism and power politics.
Unfortunately, in comparison, donkey mischief makes elephant missteps appear virtuous. The fraudulent delusions of liberal progressive socialism, marketed behind the banner of the Democratic Party, represent a venomous threat to America.
The left’s efforts to attain power by tricking political mascots with the promise of something for nothing is evil personified. I believe they’re winning the struggle between our country’s traditional partnership with liberty, opportunity, and responsibility and the hollow seductions of socialism.
No matter how much liberal apologists protest otherwise, a political platform advocating government control of production and distribution through taxation, regulation, and income redistribution is backdoor socialism – period. Conservative thinkers know there’s no such thing as big government and big people at the same time. Sincere conservative columnists resist socialists for the same reason parents resist child abusers.
I’ve also had great opportunity to share conservative perspective on local issues. The legislative theft of Asheville’s billion dollar water system, A-B Tech’s ill-advised vanity tax, our city’s predatory drug culture, and the failure of city administrators to police stripteases on our city fountain are a few standouts.
Thanks is due Jim Buchanan, Randy Hammer, and the Citizen-Times family for taking a chance on this adventure and no doubt fielding a fair share of criticism. They’ve provided a candid conservative with generous editorial freedom and weekly access to a large body of thinking people. I am smart enough to be grateful – those minutes passed quickly.
(400 words) Carl Mumpower is a practicing psychologist and a former U.S. congressional candidate and Asheville city council member. Contact him at drmumpower@thecandidconservative.com
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