"Time for the Spirit"

The recovery is there - at least when it anchors the growth of new parties. While the major parties continue their credibility (losing not only because of their profile-but also because now that the crisis in mind, will again tinker with only symptoms, instead of finally, the reasons to go to the bottom), show others in founding spirits. These, the currently emerging "small parties" in common that they can not be understood superficially as an opposition, and not as a protester with a radical approach, but rather a solution-occur, the whole thing in view.

I want to introduce a selection here:

• Libertas party Germany has launched an offshoot of the Libertas movement (by the Irishman Declan Ganley one of the main person responsible for Ireland's No to the EU Treaty of Lisbon) and was also in other European countries is active. They occur for a fundamental reform "of the European Union and its institutions with the demand for democracy, transparency, accountability and subsidiarity. Specifically, this means that the 3,000-page EU constitution made clear and all nations will be submitted to a vote. Party leader in Germany, Judge Carlos A. Gebauer, some might be a little known from the RTL television series "The criminal court". Although the party in this country until 3 March 2009 was lifted from the baptism, she already wants to compete for the European election - provided it receives enough votes.
• Even younger is the party, the good, the day before yesterday was based in Jena. The program is apparent on the website at the moment rather a list of collected ideas about what should go in the future of our society differently. Also found in the text are numerous spelling mistakes. As a statement said: "We are a brand new party. On this website is therefore still not perfect. We work every day to expand and improve. "Let us by surprise.
  
• The Pirate Party is part of a larger global movement, even here (2009: 18 countries), to participate in the mainly young people. The deceptive at first glance somewhat combative sounding name, because the party just in times of increasing scrutiny, the respectable concerns of a paradigm shift from the "transparent citizen to the glass state." “, etwa mittels verbessertem Datenschutz. Its objectives are therefore the promotion of free knowledge and free culture, above all through a reform of copyright and patent law (eg under Creative Commons), and the "protection against the surveillance state", such as through enhanced data protection. In Germany, the party was on 10 September 2006 launched. She also intends to stand for the European elections, the main issue in the election year is the super-informational self-determination of all Germans.
• The party of the reason was due to the large response, the zeitgeist of a column-writer Oliver Janich in FOCUS Money triggered (we reported). In spite of the concept on behalf of the party has not yet constituted as such, but what should happen soon, according to the chairman Janich. "Courage, truth and commitment to freedom," one reads on the establishment of any party home again too cryptic analysis important issues from the economy and society.

Although some time-existent, but also for a renewal in the holistic sense - and hunting for votes at the 2009 European elections:

• The Purples, founded on 6 January 2001. The reservoir Oriented spiritually.
• Human Environment Animal Welfare, also known as the Welfare Party, founded on 13 February 1993. Most members are - at least according to Wikipedia - a vegetarian or vegan.
• Departure for civil rights, freedom and health, established in May 1998. Chairman is the doctor, author and dedicated mobile critic Hans Christoph Scheiner.
• Human Economic Party, which introduced the ideas of Freiwirtschaft and Geldreformers Silvio Gesell (1862-1930) builds up (in-Heft 1-2007 zeitgeist in a nutshell). Accordingly, the focus is still on the establishment of a "humane economy". Founded on 9 September 1950.

And morality ...: The times that parties were set up purely out of spite, provocation or as a "joke", one thinks, for example, the Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany, the fun party or the PARTY of the Titanic people seem to pass final be. For what now matters is the practical benefit - and thus the real value to the society of tomorrow.

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