I claim a Freudian slip.

The Swedish news Web site that wrote about her (thankfully in English) went on to quote her saying, “The primary pursuit of the party is to restructure copyright laws, eliminate patent laws and support the right to be anonymous…I think it’s important that everyone gets their integrity,” she says. “Everyone should have equal rights no matter where you’re born.”

So there’s a reasonable chance that an 18 year-old who believes she shouldn’t have to pay writers, musicians and other creative artists for their work — and who also believes that people who work years to create innovative products and processes should have no legal writes to their inventions — is about to become more than just another self-entitled teenage whiner. If she were to live up to her pursuit of anonymity and limit her damage to evenings spent pirating from her parents basement she would be nothing more than another self-centered and minor annoyance.

But she is about to gain her own stage, which comes with a voice (and a vote) on intellectual property law and regulations in a market rivaling the U.S. in size and value. And here I was worried about gains by far-right parties Western Europe.

Either way, if you dismiss an inane argument as the refuge of the lunatic fringe long enough you invite a damaging result — self destructive though it may ultimately prove to be — when the fringe finds its way into a position of power.