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My problem with most folk-punk is that it's far more folk than it is punk. For the longest time I've been looking for some actual punk, and by that I mean fast, simple, rebellious tunes, but with acoustic instruments. Most of this just sounds like really political folk played by a full band.
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Seriously? I'd say the opposite; Folk Punk to me is nothing more than priveleged kids pretending their fighting for the oppressed because they're bored and overly sheltered. Really, to me, folk has a definite economic and cultural dimension; and priveleged kids from the suburbs playing music and using subcultural symbolism most relevant to other priveleged kids thats about making-pretend Wobbly politics are still relevant... that **** doesn't apply. At all.
There is, after all, a definite reason truckers and farmers listen to Merle Haggard and not The Bike is a Pipe Bomb.