That’s somehow worse and also surprising. I thought your previous governments were made of the worker’s party and the Christian centrists. A quick trip to Wikipedia taught me I should stay up to date on politics if I’m going to comment on it.
So that makes me wonder: Why go further right if people feel the ruling right party let them down?
Because of social media. If you open youtube in a private browser window your stream is filled with alt right desinformation. Same with tiktok. Somehow social media stockholmed the population into blaming the left while right parties have been fucking up the Netherlands the last 20 year with their neo-liberal skullfuckery.
One has to wonder if we wouldn’t be better off without social media. Sure, it’s done a lot of good in helping people connect and exchange ideas, but some of those people aren’t acting in good faith, and some of those ideas are just plain terrible. I don’t claim to have the full solution, but it would be a great first step if the equivalent of a fairness doctrine were to be introduced to the algorithms these platforms use to weed out rampant misinformation.
The previous government disbanded over immigration, and Geert Wilders’ message of “kick out all immigrants” sadly seemed to resonate well with people. He is also pretty good at tv debates, which is where I think he convinced the very large amount of floating voters this election.
People actively voted for deportation? Oh boy. There are some scary historic precedents there that I hope the Netherlands will avoid.
