Today a blog that you would normally not expect to appear on my account so quickly. A blog full of political current affairs. Today in the Netherlands is a day dedicated to politics. The elections were brought forward after the fall of the last Rutte cabinet ever.
A new political era starts
For the first time in no less than 13 years, the Dutchman cannot color the dot in red next to the name "Mark Rutte". The man who seemed to have more political lives than a cat with nine lives has left his political rollercoaster. It seems that he has finally had enough of the political circus and is looking for a new challenge, perhaps as a magician, where making promises disappear is his specialty. Hopefully, he will also suffer less from memory loss there, and his old faithful Nokia will again have sufficient memory to store SMS so that he no longer has to delete important conversations.
Umbrellas and beer bottles
But let us not dwell too long on Mark's absence, because even without Mark there is still more than enough life in the political brewery. Thierry Baudet, the man who elevated the art of controversy to an art form, was attacked yesterday for the second time in a month. First, it was a crazy Ukrainian man in Belgium who came to hit him on the head with an umbrella. And yesterday it was a 15-year-old left-wing extremist activist who hit Thierry on the back of the head with a beer bottle. You could say that Thierry has become a target for those who think political discussions are best conducted through physical attacks. This is a bit reminiscent of 2002 when another activist took action, and ultimately Pim Fortuyn had to pay for it with his life. It seems that the Netherlands has not yet learned much from the past. There are currently no deaths, but we can say that umbrellas and teenagers now pose major threats to Dutch democracy.
Is it democratic to exclude someone?
And then let's talk about Dilan Yesilgoz, the VVD party leader who makes a spin bigger than a merry-go-round at the fair. At first, she wanted to govern with Geert Wilders' PVV, but one evening before the big day she spins like a top and excludes the PVV. How democratic is that? And what example are you giving to the population? Her own voters have often indicated that they would like to see a VVD / PVV bloc, but Dilan does not really care about that. Geert Wilders, in turn, laughs about it and says that the VVD is starting to get scared now that it looks like his party will collect a lot of votes.
Get the money from the rich!
But is it only about the right and more right in the Netherlands? No, we also have Groen Links / PVDA with party leader Frans Timmermans. Just like Rob Jetten's D66, they stand firmly for the climate, and they also want to ensure that social security is better guaranteed. He wants to introduce additional tax brackets (as if we don't already have enough), tax inheritances, and especially tax assets. He literally says that he wants to get money from the rich Dutch. Since I'm not rich I would think I don't have to worry. Only, of course, there are catches. What if all people siphon off their wealth, or if the really rich people where Frans wants to get the money leave our country, which is not entirely impossible? If I had built up a lot of wealth through years of hard work, I would not be happy when Frans Timmermans came along and said, "You have money? Cool! Now you're going to pay 60% tax".
Pieter Omtzigt wants to appear steadfast, but changes his mind faster than you can say "Prime Minister".
And then we have Pieter Omtzigt, the man who has such a poker face that he would make even a robot jealous. He doesn't say too much, but when he does speak, the average Dutch person quickly loses the thread. However, Pieter, with his party called "New Social Contract", does not seem as social as the name suggests. Social security is his thing, but the question remains whether his views are as volatile as his opinion about whether he wants to become prime minister. He has changed his mind quite often in the run-up to the elections. Yes, no, yes, no, yes, no. It looked like a political shadow play that would even confuse Houdini. As quickly as Pieter seemed to turn around in the proverbial shackles of his own words.
Left or right? What's it going to be?
Then there are a lot of small parties, about 26 parties in total that you have to choose between, and that is in the small Netherlands. You might think that the political landscape here is quite fragmented. But yes, if you can take a seat in the House of Representatives, you will earn a very nice annual salary of about 124 thousand euros per year. And for that, you don't have to do anything other than become a member of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands. I'm starting to understand that people want to get into politics. There are pros and cons, but the fact is that this salary is not that easy to earn in many jobs. We'll see what the outcome will be. After the more than 13-year "Rutte" era, will the Dutch population opt for change? And if change comes, will we go to the Left or will we go to the Right? Or will we, as so often happens in the Netherlands, hold on to the known, let the fear of the unknown prevail, and settle down for another 4 years, choosing the conservative policy of VVD, which will actually change nothing in the policy, and change nothing in the many crises that the Dutch are facing. Except that for the first time in Dutch history, this nothing changing policy would be implemented with a female prime minister at the head of the cabinet. It seems that politics is a permanent attraction in which the only constant is changeability.
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Politics, sigh. I already suspected something were to happen with Baudet (mostly because we all know about Fortuyn). The worst thing about the situation is probably the fact that these people rioting are using these kids that have 0 clue about what consequences it has when party A or B wins have to their lives as they are too busy with being lowlifes anyway. Not every kid obviously, I refer to those kids they seem to recruit to be the bad person and attack such a guy as Baudet. What will he end up getting? probably nothing, or a little task punishment. And then we just go on as if nothing happens because he was just a kid. Sigh, imagine being Baudet and seeing people get away with this so easily.
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