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My personal theory as someone who lives in Europe but not in the Netherlands: while it's easy to assume that only racists would vote for obviously racist partie
by probably_wrong 3y ago
My personal theory as someone who lives in Europe but not in the Netherlands: while it's easy to assume that only racists would vote for obviously racist parties, I believe there's a large number of otherwise-reasonable voters who follow them because they are the only ones who say out loud that the politicians of the last 20+ years have dropped the ball.
Sure, the racist parties blame (wrongly) all problems on immigrants, but at the same time they are the only ones who publicly denounce that there is a problem to begin with. If I were struggling to get a good education for my children, who should I vote for? The party that wants to raise my transport costs, the one that ruled while the rich got richer, or the one that swears that my salary will go up once all refugees are gone?
I believe all it would take to reduce the power of the far right would be to run on a campaign of "we fucked up and we're sorry".
- candiodari 3y agoI believe it doesn't even need to go that far. EVERY party is running on a platform of "we're going to stop those evil assholes". Left says that about the right, the right says that about the left, greens, ... everyone. We need a party that goes back to "we'll kill programs and then start a big program to do X". Better public transport. Housing in large cities. Land on the fucking moon again if you want. SOMETHING. With the power of government they're all very much solvable, but no parties are even interested.