From what comes across my news, there isn't a real outbreak of racism-related violence.
I do think that the 'teabagging' movement is attracting the radicals of the anarchist/nationalist/neo-con stripes. There's a lot of popular support for the general goals of the Tea Party, it's a heterogeonous blob that wants less government, less spending, more responsible government. Obviously that grants more freedom to do reprehensible things as well. So you have some very bad elements wanting freedom for /their/ actions too. Unfortunately, there's very few sane politicians willing to step up and be a responsible leader towards the goal of freedom(which will reduce their power).
Up in this area we used to have Butler, but honestly? there never seems to be popular support/nostalgia for him. Granted, I live in a University town, and they are always much more comfortable with highly diverse populations.
What we do have is Doug Wilson(Page relating to him and his band of theocraticists. But I think they've diminished in influence.
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Date: 2010-01-11 06:47 pm (UTC)From what comes across my news, there isn't a real outbreak of racism-related violence.
I do think that the 'teabagging' movement is attracting the radicals of the anarchist/nationalist/neo-con stripes. There's a lot of popular support for the general goals of the Tea Party, it's a heterogeonous blob that wants less government, less spending, more responsible government. Obviously that grants more freedom to do reprehensible things as well. So you have some very bad elements wanting freedom for /their/ actions too. Unfortunately, there's very few sane politicians willing to step up and be a responsible leader towards the goal of freedom(which will reduce their power).
Up in this area we used to have Butler, but honestly? there never seems to be popular support/nostalgia for him. Granted, I live in a University town, and they are always much more comfortable with highly diverse populations.
What we do have is Doug Wilson(Page relating to him and his band of theocraticists.
But I think they've diminished in influence.