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This is mostly a failure of our citizens deciding not to hold the current coalition accountable and still voting for them. There are some wider 'failure of demo
by rocqua 5y ago
This is mostly a failure of our citizens deciding not to hold the current coalition accountable and still voting for them. There are some wider 'failure of democracy' reasons for this, but in the end I lay the blame at the feet of people who voted for the current government.
- einpoklum 5y agoPeople vote because of a combination of issues. Perhaps the main opposition parties also merit punishment-by-not-voting for other actions. My point is that one cannot lay the responsibility in a once-per-4-years parliament seat assignment.
- rocqua 5y agoI blame people who did not weigh this problem heavy enough in their decisions. I also personally blame people who voted VVD and CDA in general, but that is a wider and more personal judgement.
- vanderZwan 5y agoI'm with you. The fact that we can't even blame FPP voting systems, gerrymandering or other voter suppression tactics for any of this makes it all so much more frustrating. Apparently a significant part of the population either doesn't care about this, or worse, approves of the systemic racism.
- einpoklum 5y agoWell, I lean Anarchist and am not a Dutch citizen, but while living in the Netherlands for a couple of years as a post-doc, I was also disheartened to see the Dutch right-wing that dominant in national politics. Do you believe that, say, a GroenLinks-led coalition would have handled this much better?
- rocqua 5y agoI could imagine GroenLinks also not being up to the task of getting the bureaucracy to 'do the right thing'. But they would be honest about their own failure and keep trying, perhaps taking drastic measures. Their honesty about their failure might mean they lose power too soon for a culture shift in the bureaucracy to actually occur.