Pirate Parties Continue To Grow In Europe As People Get Sick Of Politics As Usual
Found on Techdirt on Thursday, 19 April 2012
While we've seen some successes in Germany, it appears that the party has now become the third most popular party in the country, surpassing the Greens.
Its success in Europe is already driving other parties to pay much more attention to the issues that have attracted so much attention for The Pirate Party: internet freedom, free speech, civil liberties, copyright law, patent law, privacy and much more.
The Pirate Party so far never claimed that they would be able to deal with every problem; they focus on that what's important to them and that forces the old parties to deal with it or watch more voters switching to the Pirates. It's somewhat sad that it takes a new political party to make the established ones react, but if nothing else works, so be it. Or maybe it's also their honesty: they admit when they don't know an answer instead of making up some empty reply just to pretend being a Jack of all trades.