Are you shocked? Amazed that someone could admit to such a dastardly crime? If so then you know what we all know, that thanks to the media, the schools and the political establishment the idea of being “Right wing” is now practically considered a crime.

According to such sources “left wingers” are compassionate, kind, thoughtful, loving, caring, good to strangers, loving to neighbors and their fellow man and probably great in bed as well. Which all makes one ponder; if being left wing gives you all these qualities, who in their right mind would even consider being right wing?

Well I do.

Sadly thanks to the almost total agreement between major parties in most countries on issues of importance the terms “Left” and “Right” have lost almost all meaning in a political sense. But if you look back in history, or even to today’s America, you can still see some traces of a time when the political class did not so totally agree with itself.

In short left wingers are Authoritarian and right wingers are Libertarian. A left winger believes that there is no such thing as human nature, that all humanity is a blank slate to be manipulated and forced into a perfect society by means of social stigma and brute force. This is the attitude of the current political establishment.

You can see it almost everywhere, in the call for a second Irish vote on the Lisbon treaty, in the attempt to force BNP members out of their jobs and to round up gangs of brainwashed thugs to physically intimidate anyone who questions the status quo. These are the calling cards of the left, and today such ideas dominate across Europe.

It has even entered the public discourse, when average people have a problem we don’t ask “How can I fix it” we ask “How can the government fix it”. We have become totally reliant on a political class because we expect all our problems to be solved by an all powerful nanny state. This culture of dependency has been built up over many years by successive governments who have grasped more and more power over our everyday lives.

The results are everywhere, not so many years ago in many neighborhoods one could keep ones door unlocked safe in the knowledge that a strong community would make crime an unlikely event. Children used to play in the streets safe in the knowledge that someone’s aunt or grandmother or even just a friendly neighbor would be watching. Now that we have delegated all our responsibility for safety to the government we live in fear, knowing that when seconds count the police will be only minutes away.

It is the idea of a perfect government which will fix all the problems of the world and turn a drab existence into a shining utopia that has led us to the edge of the great drop. When activists complain that not enough people come out to help, how many realize that the reason people stay at home is because they trust the government to sort it out, or if they don’t trust the current government, that voting in a new one will fix all the problems.

Reconquista, a very wise contributor to the discussions on this site and others suggested the other day that simply hoping that a BNP government would solve all of our problems is naïve and unrealistic. He is right. No government can fix the problems that this loss of self reliance has brought upon our societies.

As a Libertarian and a proud right winger it occurs to me that perhaps another government is not the answer to the problems that have been created by governments in the first place. A right winger believes that if government is kept on a leash then people, businesses and communities can usually find ways to solve their own problems without wasting thousands, or sometimes even millions or billions of pounds of taxpayer funds.

After all the government departments in charge of solving problems don’t want to see those problems actually solved do they? It would put them out of a job!

I agree with the chairman of the BNP Nick Griffin when he says that any problem capable of being solved at a local level should be solved at a local level. The only way to remove the damage to democracy that the main parties have wrought is to decentralize as much power to local communities as possible.

Letting people feel that their ideas and their thoughts and feelings actually DO matter is the first step to recreating a healthy society. Currently people feel that they don’t matter, that no matter what they say or do or no matter how they vote that it’s all going to end up the same in the end. That’s why people don’t bother to vote, its not simply “Apathy” as the political class claims, if they thought voting would change anything they would do it.

And this is the task facing nationalists across the world, convincing people that a vote for their party would actually change anything. After seeing so many changes of government bring nothing but the same people are fed up with it. They simply don’t see the point anymore. The left wing culture of leaving everything to a small technocratic class who claim to know how to fix everything has hollowed out communities and society in general. Only by returning democracy to communities can those communities be allowed to fix themselves, or if the rot has gone too far, to simply fail.

Green Arrow in an earlier post suggested that the BNP may be losing a touch of its anti-establishment edge at the polling booth. People have been voting BNP for change for a while now, and change may not be coming as rapidly as they wish.

It’s time perhaps to be even more anti-establishment than before, and what is more anti-establishment than promising to take away the power of the establishment? Promising to give as much power back to communities as possible? If people don’t want a mosque or a huge block of flats in their street then shouldn’t they be able to decide for themselves?

Everyone knows the BNP’s views on immigration, how about pushing a radical line on electoral reform?

What are the thoughts of the readers here? Would such a strategy work?