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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
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Username on Wednesday October 05 2016, @03:01PM
If the right is big everything then how do you explain the tea party movement?
Trump is most certainly not a globalist, and the only big thing he seems to want is a wall. Pretty sure he is against obamacare, and any other type of big government that will burden US citizens.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2016, @04:03PM
Given Trump's incoherence and continual flip flopping, I don't think it makes much sense to try to classify Trump by political ideology.
Trump is all about Trump. That's the only constant I see. He is leading a cult of personality.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday October 06 2016, @10:57AM
If you meant "Trump is definitely in the two quadrants to the right of the centre line at per political compass charts" then you are indeed correct, but your statement carries as much information as "water is wet", as almost all US polititions are deeply embedded in that zone (and in the upper quadrant at that).
I interpreted "right of center" to mean "the band just to the right of the centre", say 0.0-0.4. "right" would be 0.3-0.7, say, and "hard right" would be 0.6-1.0. I'd guess Trump was 0.6-0.7 right, and clearly not in the band right of centre.
I'll now go off and see if the political compass has done a 2016 candidates plot...
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday October 06 2016, @12:03PM
Scores a healthy +0.9 on the -Libertarian-+Authoritarian axis too, for reference. It looks like they don't place anyone with finer than .05 granularity, so they probably had exactly the same guestimate as me.
Of cours there is a larger than normal margin of error because there's probably a huge gap between what he says (which is all over the place), what he means (likewise), and what he'll eventually actually do - which is the most predictable, even though it's the bit that hasn't happened yet.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves