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To: rktman

This article is utterly garbage, #FakeNews, and revisionist history.

Of course some punks are diehard leftists. But even The Dead Kennedys who this article champions - no fan of Republicans - wrote California Über Alles, about when President Jerry Brown and other "zen fascists will control you...you will jog for the master race...". While you're at it, check out the lyrics to Holiday in Cambodia. The Kennedys were anti-fascist but

A search on FR for "conservativepunk" show about a dozen articles covering that movement. Indeed, Andrew Wilkow was a big force in that movement.

Former Misfit and current Undead leader Bobby Steele put it best:

Bobby cleared up the most popular misconception about conservative punks, "That we're Nazis – National Socialists. It's impossible for someone on the right to follow the teachings of socialism, which is a left wing belief. There's also a misconception that we're blindly following President Bush. We're not. If you were to read the opinions expressed at Conservativepunk.com, you'd see there are a lot of criticisms of the way things are being done right now. I'd say the thing that really brings us all together isn't so much that we're conservative as it is that we're sick and tired of being dictated to on how we must think to be punks. The left has consistently shown itself as the 'Thought Police.' We believe in the constitution, human rights, free speech and freedom of the press."

Right after the election, there was a well-written article on this topic called Is Trumpism the new punk rock?. In short, yes.

Trump may get lost in the details, but he gets the big things attitudinally right. Put another way: He may know only three chords, but Wattenberg says his followers hear the "right three chords."

I'd rather have a coffee with your average punk fan than your average Springsteen fan.

6 posted on 09/10/2017 6:01:16 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

The folks who bill themselves as modern punk, like Green Day, want everyone to know how cool they think big centralized government that tells everyone what to do is. Hard to take someone as a rebel when they’re telling you how awesome the master is.


9 posted on 09/10/2017 6:13:31 AM PDT by Bogey78O (So far so good.)
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To: DoodleBob
"The Kennedys were anti-fascist but "

but, what?

30 posted on 09/10/2017 9:19:54 AM PDT by jackibutterfly
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