More punk, less hell!

[Edim]

When the ballots had been counted, the Prime Minister of Iceland declared the result a «shock».

The same sense of shock was felt by almost everyone. The old guard, because it had lost. And the new party, because it had won.

There had never been such a result – not in Iceland or anywhere else. Reykjavik had long been a bastion of the conservatives. That was now history. With 34.7% of the vote, the city had voted a new party into power: the anarcho-surrealists.

http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ausland/europa/More-punk-less-hell/story/10069405

[woo me with science]

1. This article is FANTASTIC!

Way to go, Iceland!

[progressoid]

3. No kidding! Read the whole thing DU!

[Enthusiast]

2. The "conservatives" and their deregulation.

At least in Iceland the people recognized the cause and effect of deregulation.

Here, with a strictly controlled media, the people were never allowed to recognize cause and effect. So the solution for everything in the US remains the Republican solution—more tax cuts and more deregulation.

Sucks!

Yay, Iceland!

[TRoN33]

4. K&R!

[safeinOhio]

5. I can relate to this guy

"Everyone, including himself, thought he was stupid. So when he was 13, he made three decisions: he became a punk, he became the class clown («better a clown than a dummy») and he gave up on learning at school. From then on, he read privately. And read he did, extensively: on anarchism, Bruce Lee, Tao Te Ching, Monty Python and surrealism."