Wait, cosmopolitan, Europeanized teabaggers — many clinging to their non-guns and non-Gods — and yet somehow just as forthrightly pissed as our own backwood rubes and dullards, and like them pretending they know jack-all about how best to rule? Posh. Racist haters, the whole transnational lot of ’em. Probably funded by the Jews, to boot:

-In April, the people of Iceland went to the polls, decisively rejecting a bailout of British and Dutch investors who lost billions in the Icesave bank in 2008. Iceland is the rare example of a nation that allowed its banks to fail in the wake of the financial crisis.

Now it appears to be an example for the whole world, and has inspired protests in Spain and Italy, a movement called M15. Some of the movement’s slogans include, “When we grow up we want to be Icelanders,” “don’t rescue the banks,” “let the culprits pay the crisis,” “banks rob us,” and “bipartisanship is dictatorship”.

While some in the media have characterized the movement as left-wing, it appears to be appealing to individuals across the political spectrum, young and old. One video promoting the movement spoke out against both of the major parties in Spain, the center-right Popular Party, and the leftist PSOE.

And dispelling the notion entirely, the group’s founding website, “Real Democracy Now,” articulates a broad message for folks of all political stripes: “Some of us consider ourselves progressive, others conservative. Some of us are believers, some not. Some of us have clearly defined ideologies, others are apolitical, but we are all concerned and angry about the political, economic, and social outlook which we see around us: corruption among politicians, businessmen, bankers, leaving us helpless, without a voice.”

This all sounds quite familiar. In this narrow sense, M15 appears to at least in part resemble America’s tea party movement. It’s a revolutionary sentiment that surpasses party factions.

— HE SAID “REVOLUTIONARY”! THAT’S THE SAME AS “VIOLENT”! MAKING THE TEA PARTIERS, BY THEIR OWN ADMISSION, VIOLENT REVOLUTIONARIES LOOKING TO OVERTHROW AN HISTORIC PRESIDENT BECAUSE HE JUST HAPPENS TO BE BLACK!

THEY MUST ALL BE ROUNDED UP OR SHOT DEAD WHERE THEY PICKET! FOR PROGRESS! AND FREEDOM!

These protesters, like the tea party, oppose efforts to bail out international banks that bet poorly on housing and sovereign debt. They also recognize — and oppose — the tyranny of the few that has emerged in the wake of the sovereign debt crisis where financial institutions refuse to take any losses on their bad investments.

Notably, the tea party has been noted for its opposition to the bailouts, whether it’s a Republican administration proposing them or a Democrat one. It was similar sentiment that knocked Republicans out of power in 2006 and 2008, only to put them back control of the House in 2010.

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Here in America, as citizens attempt to persuade their leaders to regain control of the nation’s finances with a $14.3 trillion national debt, the largest in the world, they too have been frustrated at the apparent lack of progress made. They were promised $100 billion of spending cuts in 2011 by Republicans, only to see that reduced to $61 billion, and again reduced by a deal to cut $38.5 billion in spending authority that only resulted $352 million in net cuts for the year.

If Republicans cannot find a way to rein in the unbridled spending and borrowing in Washington — which benefits the same international banks that are so unpopular in Europe with hundreds of billions of dollars of interest payments — their newfound majority may not be long-lived.

They might learn a thing or two from the Icelandic revolution that is spreading throughout Europe. The primary lesson is to listen to the will of the people, or endure their wrath at the polls. Because the people are in charge, not the banks.

Meh. If we listened to the will of the people, the presidency would be a three-panel team consisting of Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul, and Stephen Tyler — and Congress would be populated by a series of automated 1-900 numbers.

— Which, now that I think about it…