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posted by janrinok on Wednesday October 05 2016, @11:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the shiver-me-voters dept.

A party that hangs a skull-and-crossbones flag at its HQ, and promises to clean up corruption, grant asylum to Edward Snowden and accept the bitcoin virtual currency, could be on course to form the next Icelandic government.

The Pirate Party has found a formula that has eluded many anti-establishment groups across Europe. It has tempered polarising policies like looser copyright enforcement rules and drug decriminalisation with pledges of economic stability that have won confidence among voters.

This has allowed it to ride a wave of public anger at perceived corruption among the political elite - the biggest election issue in a country where a 2008 banking collapse hit thousands of savers and government figures have been mired in an offshore tax furore following the Panama Papers leaks.

The left-leaning party is part of a global anti-establishment typified by Britain's vote to leave the European Union. But their platform is far removed from the anti-immigration policies of the UK Independence Party, France's National Front and Germany's AfD, or the anti-austerity of Greece's Syriza.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-iceland-election-idUKKCN11Z1RV


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  • (Score: 2) by Username on Wednesday October 05 2016, @02:22PM

    by Username (4557) on Wednesday October 05 2016, @02:22PM (#410605)

    Late 80s early 90s. When Gen X started taking over. First generation raised in front of the tv by the media. Think of the last time it was acceptable to tell someone their kid is a waste on school resources and wouldn’t be allowed to attend, or when it was ok for a women to have or agree with her husband.

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  • (Score: 3, Troll) by turgid on Wednesday October 05 2016, @02:24PM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 05 2016, @02:24PM (#410606) Journal

    That's nothing but a pig steaming pile of dogs' jobbies. I've never heard such a crazy argument.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2016, @02:30PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2016, @02:30PM (#410611)

      You are right, he's an idiot. During the 80s and 90s the left were in retreat. The only way Clinton even got elected was by embracing all kinds of policies from the right like mass incarceration, NAFTA, war on drugs, and gutting welfare.

      • (Score: 2) by Username on Wednesday October 05 2016, @08:17PM

        by Username (4557) on Wednesday October 05 2016, @08:17PM (#410800)

        Well, at least I’m not too big of an idiot to assume the establishment is purely presidential. Still, Clinton was a pot smoking hippie with a tree hugger VP, and he beat out a sitting republican president. It also was the start of the PC culture. By the 90s all schools were completely ran by liberals. Majority of companies as well.

        Clinton is still the establishment. She was chosen by the DNC and everything was rigged in her favor. The GOP establishment hates trump, they were forced to take him. All mainstream media outlets hate trump. Even fox news tried their best to sink him, but now are forced to back him. He’s ross perot without the dirty pictures, and enough balls to force the GOPs hand.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2016, @09:49PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2016, @09:49PM (#410850)

          It's too bad about that GOP platform, though. Also too bad about the alt-right. I really hope the comments I've read here about tobacco causing cancer and cannabis having medical uses being a PC thing are just trolling, but I haven't seen anybody who might be "with" the alt-right correct those. What a ball of wax. I really didn't want to vote for Clinton. Trump doesn't seem too terrible. He should have tried his hand at running full independent or Libertarian.