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[anotherusedpage]

FUCK fuck fuck fuck they've elected in a BNP counsellor in Barking. Fuck. Fuckit. Fuck.

Fuck. Fuck I don't want to go back. That actually makes the idea of going home more than a little scary. BNP voting neighbours. Fuckit.

(Not actually my constituency, but the boundary's about three doors down the road....)

ETA: Eleven out of thirty-nine counsellors in Barking. And a new BNP counsellor in my home constituency too, too...

knew I should have committed electoral fraud

*spits*

Comments

[mejoff.livejournal.com]

The political compass has been known to put radical socialists on the far right for no reason I've ever been able to determine. It's just wrong. Also loving your use of the word 'darsardly'.
How far to the right do you have to be to see the BNP as left wing?

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

knirrir is pretty much a libertarian. He's, technically speaking, to the right of almost anyone else I've ever met... but we get on just fine as long as we don't talk about taxes :P

[knirirr.livejournal.com]

It depends on your definition of right. ;-)
This may be of some small interest (apologies if I've bored you with it before).

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I'd not actually seen it before.

Faintly creepy, though, in that it seems to assume that most people have absolutely no political nouse of their own and will believe the spin you put on something...

I do think libertarians would have a better time of it if they'd give over assosiating themselves with the right, though. Apart from anything else, the right don't want you... and it does generally give a 'vibe' as the article says of various unpleasant things. Like you said, mostly about race and sex, and mostly from people who don't know what they're talking about, but even so...

[knirirr.livejournal.com]

it seems to assume that most people have absolutely no political nouse of their own and will believe the spin you put on something

That would be a fair assumption to make based upon our current political system. ;-)

I think that the article does make a useful point that re-phrasing what one has to say will assist people in understanding it. Because of these 'vibes' I have great difficulty in explaining to anyone what libertarians are interested in. For example, if I say "the welfare state has failed the poor by keeping them trapped in poverty, we should abandon it" they hear "f**k the poor", and so on.

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

That would be a fair assumption to make based upon our current political system. ;-)

Yeah, well, that's why it's so fucking creepy. God don't people think *growls*

if I say "the welfare state has failed the poor by keeping them trapped in poverty, we should abandon it" they hear "f**k the poor", and so on.

Mostly I just think 'can't see another way working any better...' I think the welfare state is fixable.

But then you knew that already.

[knirirr.livejournal.com]

Dastardly is a good word, and describes most politicians admirably.

As for your other question, it depends on what you mean by "left" and "right". As I see it, all these parties are collectivists, and the labels refer mainly to a metacontextual world view. As an anarchist, I don't approve of any of them.
Of course, fascism is a form of socialism anyway.