What's driving them? My educated guess would be your usual blend of misinformation, xenophobia and egotism / fear of losing what they perceive (and are told, by like minds) to be their birthright.
Symptoms include but are not limited to:
othering minorities
racism
fear of trans people
telling n-th generation Dutch people who happen to be not white to 'go back to their own country' (an all time favourite)
fear of refugees (only when they're brown of course, no problem accepting Ukrainian refugees)
violent protests against local govt when they announce a new refugee center
nationalism
misplaced nostalgia for when we were a 'proper' country (think white)
Probably forgot some but you get the idea. Then there's also some flavours that are just straight up fascism like Forum voor Democratie.
Recent low point includes above party initiating a motion to mark antifa as a terrorist organisation (they wish they were trump so bad) and it being passed in parliament by a majority (all the right wing parties summed) because no one bothered to think about it for even 2 seconds.
What I'm saying is that the far right parties, summed together, went from 40 to 42 (out of 150) seats and so their threat is still as real as it ever was. ('proper' left parties are ~30 seats taken together, for reference, everything else is relatively center)
In other words, just because PVV isn't the biggest party in parliament anymore and won't be in charge of forming a cabinet, the voters' sympathy for far right policies is still alive and kicking.
I definitely wouldn't say people are turning the page on them, it's definitely still a very real and sizable threat to our democracies. Managing to keep them out of power by the skin of our teeth is the best we got right now.
Most hopeful thing re: populism that happened in the Netherlands so far is that our local trump crashed the cabinet but that's barely changed people's minds on blaming minorities for their problems, they just picked different representatives for it this time around.
Far right hardly suffered losses, their seats in parliament just shuffled around a bit meaning one of the far right parties is no longer the largest in parliament like last election. Which cleared the way for a gay PM, which we love.
His mysoginist comments from the campaign trail are duly noted though 👀
Yeah I should really do it more, I love being surrounded by people who are at least trying to do some good (instead of not doing anything and just letting our democracy deteriorate, which to be fair I am also guilty of at times)
Othering takes many forms. In the case of the US Christofascism, it's anyone who's not a 'Christian' white cishet. Gotta keep the division easy for the populace to direct their anger effectively.
I miss sophie :(
:3
We'll get there or maybe we won't but it's ok as long as we stay true to ourselves!!
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Me and who
Necesse!!!
My sympathies :3
What's driving them? My educated guess would be your usual blend of misinformation, xenophobia and egotism / fear of losing what they perceive (and are told, by like minds) to be their birthright.
Symptoms include but are not limited to:
Probably forgot some but you get the idea. Then there's also some flavours that are just straight up fascism like Forum voor Democratie.
Recent low point includes above party initiating a motion to mark antifa as a terrorist organisation (they wish they were trump so bad) and it being passed in parliament by a majority (all the right wing parties summed) because no one bothered to think about it for even 2 seconds.
D66 is that, yes.
What I'm saying is that the far right parties, summed together, went from 40 to 42 (out of 150) seats and so their threat is still as real as it ever was. ('proper' left parties are ~30 seats taken together, for reference, everything else is relatively center)
In other words, just because PVV isn't the biggest party in parliament anymore and won't be in charge of forming a cabinet, the voters' sympathy for far right policies is still alive and kicking.
I definitely wouldn't say people are turning the page on them, it's definitely still a very real and sizable threat to our democracies. Managing to keep them out of power by the skin of our teeth is the best we got right now.
Most hopeful thing re: populism that happened in the Netherlands so far is that our local trump crashed the cabinet but that's barely changed people's minds on blaming minorities for their problems, they just picked different representatives for it this time around.
Well yes, but also no.
Far right hardly suffered losses, their seats in parliament just shuffled around a bit meaning one of the far right parties is no longer the largest in parliament like last election. Which cleared the way for a gay PM, which we love.
His mysoginist comments from the campaign trail are duly noted though 👀
Let's get these onto a tray
Yea :)
Today is giving qup xbtly kinda
This will do numbers in the group chats thanks
Matt Berry :(
Based
Yeah I should really do it more, I love being surrounded by people who are at least trying to do some good (instead of not doing anything and just letting our democracy deteriorate, which to be fair I am also guilty of at times)
Othering takes many forms. In the case of the US Christofascism, it's anyone who's not a 'Christian' white cishet. Gotta keep the division easy for the populace to direct their anger effectively.
THAT'S SO CUTE WHAT THE FUCK 😭😭😭😭😭