How bad is the right wing where you live?

  1. TheRadicalAnarchist
    TheRadicalAnarchist
    As a young anarchist, who dresses in old punk garb, the right wing nuts, or just small minded people, get every chance they get to stare me down. Just about every couple of months or so, the local TEA Party holds a protest down at the local square (I live in a small town in Southern Illinois). Interested, I decided to sit on a bench and listen to what they had to say. Can I just say "Wow," hardly ANY of these nuts knew anything about a small government, economics, our founding fathers, and Christianity. They went on about how people on wellfare should be drug tested, how Obama is really a Muslim from Africa, how the founding fathers would kick out the Mexicans, and how it is impossible to be left winged and Christian. All of these are obviously false. I eventually left, and tried to organize a local Left Wing Convention where leftists of all walks can come to talk about social and national issues. Needless to say, it failed. No one took it seriously, and hardly anyone showed up with any intention other than to see how many people had the guts to share their thoughts. Well, that's how it is in my area, how about yours?
  2. Scarlet Fever
    Scarlet Fever
    Ugh, much the same. The only real political controversy is between the moneyed elite members of the GOP/corporate/religious establishment and the more red neck Tea Party types. Oy...
  3. Chris
    Chris
    Not bad at all, actually. Most people are tend towards the centre-left or left, mostly agrarians, social-democrats, a couple socialists, along with some conservatives and social-liberals too of course. Although, there aren't anyone remotely anarchist or libertarian here. Fairly typical for rural Norway. Have had some rather interesting discussions with one of the neighbours, an old Labour Party politician.

    The most right-winged one I know is the owner of a local camping site (he's the closest thing to an american republican we get here, a Progress Party member), but have never discussed politics with him.

    The only time I have any problem with the rightwing is when I travel to the town, really, which has a lot more rightwingers than out in the woods.
  4. ComradeOfJoplin
    ComradeOfJoplin
    Where I live (Missouri) it is kind of bad. There is a local left population but they are condishond to be quiet unless spoken to. Now the right people tend to and tend to take any comment as an attack to there values. But it is not bad for me because I work for a school and the left tends to be strong here.
  5. UNDEADnihilist13
    UNDEADnihilist13
    I get into fights all the time at school and on the bus. Also thier is these skinheads and they can do what ever they want but if a communist says workers of the world unite that's the infraction!
  6. Wayne Gallivant
    Wayne Gallivant
    In North Dakota, the great majority of people are Republican, and very conservative... However, that said, they aren't the type of conservative you will find in Texas or the South. People here tend to call themselves conservative, yet they support the state-owned bank (the Bank Of North Dakota), and currently, the Republican governor is fighting the oil companies over the extraction tax. That said, I have yet to run into another Communist or other leftists in this area. People here are ignorant to the fact that the reason this state does so well comparatively to the other states in the US is that it was founded primarily by socialists from Norway and Russia.
  7. Comrade Faxman
    Comrade Faxman
    Greetings. I am new to RevLeft, and I am here to bring my ideas for world peace and people's socialism. I am in Tennessee, where there is a horrible right-wing, in many ways equatable to fascism. Racism, a notorious characteristic of fascism (which I am convinced is a stage of capitalism), is rampant, as is poverty. The top 1 percent of the capitalist-fascist gangsters of the United States (although it is more like the American Empire) keep almost half of the wealth for themselves, while the lower 90% have about one tenth of the wealth. As a Leninist, I find this exploitation to be an atrocity. In addition, I hate the way Natives are treated, and I hope that the Parisian movement for a free Native American sovereign state (which is nonviolent) will succeed. Long live the people!
  8. ShadowStar
    ShadowStar
    In the small town I live in Texas, mostly everyone is a republican and the town is very reactionary. When I was in middle and high school, I would often argue with the teachers who were tea partiers.
  9. ShadowStar
    ShadowStar
    In the small town I live in Texas, mostly everyone is a republican and the town is very reactionary. When I was in middle and high school, I would often argue with the teachers who were tea partiers.