Thing is, this is just another type of populism. The thought that if only we'd put normal people in charge, everything would be easy. All problems are simple, the elites just choose to press the big red button every day when the big green button is next to it but they refuse to press it because they are evil. If we could get a bunch or normal guys in who, like, read Reddit and stuff and follow memes and do gags and smoke weed and are just chill guys in general, they'd press the big green button every day and everything would go nicely.

> The real question: is this behavior any worse than the "super serious" parties?

Exactly. In a corrupt political system that each voter has little or no faith in, how do they signal this to others so that everyone knows they're not alone?

You can simply not vote, but then you're accused of being lazy, etc and the overall point is lost.

At least with a joke party, it creates an undeniable spectacle to spark discussion.