🇩🇪🏴☠️🎉 Starkes Signal für uns alle: Fast 9% für die tschechischen #Piraten! 🇨🇿 Einzige progressive Kraft im Parlament, stärker als die Rechtsextremen. 👊 Ihr kämpft für uns alle gegen die autoritäre Welle & für #Transparenz! Wir stehen an eurer Seite! ✊
🇪🇺🏴☠️🎉 A strong signal for the entire #Pirates movement: Nearly 9% for the Czech #Pirates! 🇨🇿 Back in parliament as the sole progressive force, stronger than the far-right. 👊 Your fight against the authoritarian wave & for #Transparency is our fight too. ✊
@Jan Pospisil You were right to make this clarification, which is very interesting, especially for those who don't follow Czech politics from abroad. However, it's worth remembering a few things: - the Czech population is completely right-wing; As in all former satellite states of the USSR, anti-communism created a stigma for anyone who even promoted a vague social democratic thought... - what you call the purge of the left from the Czech Pirate Party wasn't a true political purge, but rather a carnage that took place between the losers: those who mistakenly believed they would be elected in the European elections and those who already knew they wouldn't be elected, those who failed slightly versus those who failed dramatically, those who went looking for a place in Volt and those who barricaded themselves in their European seat behind the Greens' sandbags... The fact that the left lost out at the national level is a simple consequence of the right-wing trend currently present in Czechia and many other European countries.
I'm not capable of making more complex analyses of the Czech situation, and I'm certainly not capable of offering advice to the Czech Pirates, who, compared to the Pirates of the rest of the world, have at least won a few seats in parliament. Of course, I too would be very happy if the Czech Pirates developed a more progressive sensibility, but I also believe the Pirates' added value is their "secularism," their specific program in favor of transparency and education, their ability to propose solutions to political corruption, and their opposition to techno-surveillance. If they can do this, then they can be credible. Conversely, if they decide to present themselves as just another tiny and irrelevant left-wing party, then the only result they will achieve is to be just another tiny and irrelevant left-wing party in the Czech Republic.
It would be good if this concept were clear to other Pirate Parties around the world, but I fear that at the moment only the Luxembourg Pirates have grasped this political strategy.
the Copenhagen Criteria should have been made permanent membership criteria. The EU has given all its power to the least compliant and biggest drains on EU funds. The 2004 expansion was a big mistake.
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Jan Pospisil
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in reply to Jan Pospisil • •@Jan Pospisil You were right to make this clarification, which is very interesting, especially for those who don't follow Czech politics from abroad.
However, it's worth remembering a few things:
- the Czech population is completely right-wing; As in all former satellite states of the USSR, anti-communism created a stigma for anyone who even promoted a vague social democratic thought...
- what you call the purge of the left from the Czech Pirate Party wasn't a true political purge, but rather a carnage that took place between the losers: those who mistakenly believed they would be elected in the European elections and those who already knew they wouldn't be elected, those who failed slightly versus those who failed dramatically, those who went looking for a place in Volt and those who barricaded themselves in their European seat behind the Greens' sandbags... The fact that the left lost out at the national level is a simple consequence of the right-wing trend currently present in Czechia and many other European countries.
I'm not capable of making more complex analyses of the Czech situation, and I'm certainly not capable of offering advice to the Czech Pirates, who, compared to the Pirates of the rest of the world, have at least won a few seats in parliament. Of course, I too would be very happy if the Czech Pirates developed a more progressive sensibility, but I also believe the Pirates' added value is their "secularism," their specific program in favor of transparency and education, their ability to propose solutions to political corruption, and their opposition to techno-surveillance. If they can do this, then they can be credible. Conversely, if they decide to present themselves as just another tiny and irrelevant left-wing party, then the only result they will achieve is to be just another tiny and irrelevant left-wing party in the Czech Republic.
It would be good if this concept were clear to other Pirate Parties around the world, but I fear that at the moment only the Luxembourg Pirates have grasped this political strategy.
@Patrick Breyer
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in reply to Patrick Breyer • • •Ich habe das Gefühl, das Europäische Experiment ist gescheitert.
Gegeneinander statt miteinander, kleinkariert statt einheitlich, teuer statt günstig.
Der Brexit-Schuss nach hinten wurde nicht gehört.