I base that on a parallel thing where I’ve seen a lot of far right people presumably in the US latching on to Irish rebel music.
I believe that these people who genuinely believe in their hearts that they are rebels are probably redeemable if they get the correct political education. They genuinely want to fight something that is getting them down but are misguided as to what it is. They find in this music that spirit of rebellion against the oppressor but they mislabel the oppressor because of their lack of political education.
Correct me if I’m wrong but most of these people are dirt poor rednecks.
I’m thinking specifically of boogaloo, libertarian, AnCap, anti-antifascist, etc. types. There is very much a vibe stateside among reactionaries that upholding state violence and resisting social progress is how they rebel against “the system.” So I’m specifically talking about people who are reactionaries first and then choose these tunes because of their meme status.
On a more general line, sure I agree there are a lot of working-poor proles that see themselves as having a sort of rebellious spirit who could be redirected with the correct political education.
I believe that these people who genuinely believe in their hearts that they are rebels are probably redeemable if they get the correct political education. They genuinely want to fight something that is getting them down but are misguided as to what it is. They find in this music that spirit of rebellion against the oppressor but they mislabel the oppressor because of their lack of political education.
Correct me if I’m wrong but most of these people are dirt poor rednecks.
I’m thinking specifically of boogaloo, libertarian, AnCap, anti-antifascist, etc. types. There is very much a vibe stateside
among reactionaries that upholding state violence and resisting social progress is how they rebel against “the system.” So I’m specifically talking about people who are reactionaries first and then choose these tunes because of their meme status.
On a more general line, sure I agree there are a lot of working-poor proles that see themselves as having a sort of rebellious spirit who could be redirected with the correct political education.