Thanks for reading it, so we don’t have to. From the comments it sounds like die Piraten are just the Occupy movement rebranded, only not quite so intellectually coherent. They aren’t anything new, just Rousseau in a new wrapper.
LOL. You could hardly be more wrong.
For what it’s worth, Die Welt is basically the conservative Springer group’s leading paper, a kind of German Wall Street Journal (or The Times). So the suspicion of liberal tendencies is unfounded.
As for the Pirates, well, there are already three parties in Germany occupying the whole liberal/socialist spectrum - the Social Democrats, the Greens, and the “Left” (i.e. the former east German communists).
Believe it or not, the Pirates stand somewhere else.
Ha, ha, you’re welcome. I’m the kind of person who reads the back of cereal boxes. That at least makes sense.