Here's an old (miss) quote that I have been forced to use too many times before:
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good people do nothing."
...which is why these racist thugs have been democratically elected. And if we're going to deal with this democratically, an awful lot of people are going to have to take their arses down from the nice comfortable fence. I personally doubt whether the so-called folk community has enough clout to influence this directly, but in the words of the much-loved Ian Campbell, (your dad knew him) "by christ we'll have to try." I believe that this, above or below the line, is an appropriate forum, if only to examine our own thoughts.