Ostensibly in the United States the two political parties rarely agree on anything, but they do seem to be in agreement about making it virtually impossible for rebels, renegades and rogues to form a third political party.
Some cynical pundits may suggest that the Republicans and Democrats in the United States are playing a political variation of the "good cop -- bad cop" strategy for managing the citizens for the one percenters and thus a third party would only complicate the process and therefore such an innovation becomes unnecessary and undesirable in the opinion of most one percenters.
It would be very unpatriotic to believe that the "good cop -- bad cop" political atmosphere in the United States is anything less than idyllic but a niche group that might see things that way might be attracted to the Pirate Party.
The Internet presents the people known as corporations with access to all the consumer/computer user data to expedite the manipulation and exploitation of the suckers -- strike that word and change it to customers -- possible; also, they do not want to miss the opportunity to include extra hidden charges for intellectual property rights (passing those hidden addition monies along to the artists who should get the fees is an entirely different matter) along to their customers. Therefore it seems that the people we know as corporations and the members of the Pirate Party have a cobra vs. mongoose type relationship.
The Pirate Party politicians will appeal to the natural inclination for a new generation of young people to become rebels and innovators by invoking a very popular cultural image that has also provided a very lucrative genre to
Here is a short test to give the readers of this column a chance to see if their thinking has been molded by society or if they have the large canon of knowledge needed to sidestep any efforts to be fooled by conceptual shorthand propaganda.
Can you name any Pirate ship captains who were women? If you didn't quickly rattle off several names; then you have been outwitted by marketing image molding and should consider taking the time to locate and read a copy of "She Captains" by Joan Druett.
Robert Newton was the greatest movie pirate of all time for his portrayal of Long John Silver in "
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