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Reply Thu 13 May, 2004 11:51 am
George W Bush: Punk icon?

By Damian Fowler
BBC reporter in New York

It sounds unlikely, but there is a surprising new subculture emerging in the United States: Republican punk rockers. In his knee-high Dr Martens and with his head shaved, Michale Graves is the Bush-friendly face of punk rock.

He is the front man for the band Gotham Road, which has just kicked off its US tour.

On stage he belts out angry, obscure lyrics, but offstage he is also known for his conservative rants and raves.

"The leftist radical agenda seems to be resonating loudly from within pop culture and we are at war on many different levels," he wrote in one of his columns at conservativepunk.com - one of several new web sites for Republican punk rockers.

Gotham Road is one a roster of bands who are anti-anti-establishment - though they represent a small percentage of the punk scene.

They are not raging against the machine - they are raging for it.

Nick Rizzuto is another self-styled conservative punk, and the founder of conservativepunk.com.

The 22-year-old is a fan of the New York City punk band Bouncing Souls, and has the tattoos to prove it.

But he identifies himself as capitalist punk, railing against the left.

"I don't find anything punk about promoting higher taxes and more handouts to people," Rizzuto says.

"I would see the conservative viewpoint as being more punk than a liberal one, because a conservative viewpoint places a lot of emphasis on personal responsibility."


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plainoldme
 
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Reply Thu 13 May, 2004 12:03 pm
WOW!!! Of course, Republicans and conservatives like Rock n Roll in all it's forms.

An old boyfriend's house mate on Fourth Street in Detroit, just north of Wayne State U was Alice Cooper, a Republican.

Punk represents personal responsibility? I'd say just the opposite and conservatism is not about personal responsibility, that's one of the lies the right keeps saying in hopes that it will be believed. It is the left that represents personal responsibility, as in the people who became civil rights workers and took a stand against racism and the people who were out in the streets, protesting the war. Furthermore, when govt gives aid to children, the indigent, etc., it does so as a representation of the personal good will of the citizenry, a subtilety lost on the right.
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Reply Thu 13 May, 2004 12:57 pm
plainoldme wrote:
Punk represents personal responsibility? I'd say just the opposite and conservatism is not about personal responsibility, that's one of the lies the right keeps saying in hopes that it will be believed. It is the left that represents personal responsibility, as in the people who became civil rights workers and took a stand against racism and the people who were out in the streets, protesting the war. Furthermore, when govt gives aid to children, the indigent, etc., it does so as a representation of the personal good will of the citizenry, a subtilety lost on the right.

To get the full meaning of what he's saying, read his statement about personal responsibility and then read the previous sentence. He's talking about personal responsibility as opposed to the left-wing idea of the "nanny state" where a gigantic government full of agencies and programs is responsible for interfering with your life from cradle to grave.

Alice Cooper lives in Phoenix and has a restaurant called Alice Cooperstown. It's right next to the arena where the Phoenix Suns play, just down the street from the ball park where the Arizona Diamondbacks play.

http://www.alicecooperstown.com/mainlogo.gif
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plainoldme
 
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Reply Thu 13 May, 2004 05:16 pm
Did conservatives work to end racism or the war in Vietnam? As for the state taking care of people, once again, think whether or not those anti abortion people will pay for the educational needs of children their actions cause to be born. The state represents the citizen and when those same small govt people have a brain damaged kid who needs speech therapy and occupational therapy and more, they expect their local public school to supply it.
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