Greens throw off grip of weird pharma

Forces of woo defeated, at least provisionally. Good for the crusties.

The really encouraging thing about this is that weird pharma is highly profitable. So the Greens are actively rejecting the opportunity to be funded by sugar pill merchants and voted for by their dupes (at least, on those explicit terms). And that would have been presented as moderation: "look these people really want to help us because they share our beliefs and together we can connect with the voters." If the Greens hadn't have done this, it would have been the people reasonably supportive of science who would have ended up being portrayed as risible extremists and marginalised. In more general terms, what's happening here is a stand against modern thinking in politics.

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[Tom]

Actual Green politicians when encountered in the wild tend to be blissfully normal, too, at least in comparison with some of the freaks in other parties. You feel like saying 'hang on, you're supposed to be the wacky mentalists'.

[des von bladet]

The (parliamentary wing of the local) Dirty Fucking Hippies turned out to be fairly sound, too; it turns out to be the fucking pharmacists of all people you mostly have to watch out for.

(Come to think of it, DSquared could probably have pegged them as just the kind of status-anxious lower-middle-class give-em-a-uniform neat-freak types you need to keep a beady eye on at a thousand paces, but I am significantly less wise.)