So a guy who in the past was even banned from visiting the UK, which has now already been pretty hostile to all foreigners for at least one or two decades, as many people in England were already pretty hostile toward foreigners in 2004 and Theresa May introduced her hostile environment in 2010 or thereabouts, gets to rule this country. The Netherlands.
That’s like saying that the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy exist. Except that the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny are positive characters.
In 2011, an Englishman who hadn’t lived in England for around three decades kept telling me that I was so wrong, so mistaken, about various things that I told him about my experiences there. He too has had several harsh wake-up calls since.
We’ve had Trump, we’ve had Bolsonaro, we have Argentina and now the Netherlands.
The Netherlands has historically always welcomed those who were persecuted abroad, whether it was in Spain and Portugal (Sephardic Jews) or England (Mayflower). Suddenly that’s changed. That’s major.
And that’s scary.
The Dutch were always the voice of reason and of fairness, the ones who stood up for everyone’s rights. Even if this often made them perceived as dull or annoying, we need some country to play this role in the world.
Which country can we count on now? The voices of Merkel, Marin and Ardern have already disappeared too.
Who will add the badly needed dash of moderation to the global stew?
(I find this development scary. Yes, this too. I’m so delusional and paranoid, aren’t I? I’m making it all up. Everything.)
(Yes, I’m being sarcastic.)
(There’s no such thing as hacking and there’s no such thing as 4chan and there’s no such thing as crazy persistent obsessive destructive misogyny. There is no such thing as for example young white male idiots who for example work at places like O2 and Vodafone continuing to mess with my emails, calls and texts just because they hate women and want to “break” me and force me to bow my head in the presence of men or whatever. They can’t hunt you down relentlessly. Pizzagate never happened either. Geert Wilders can’t be Dutch Prime Minister – but maybe he really won’t be as he needs to form a coalition, granted – and he can’t previously have been blocked from visiting the UK. Impossible.)
Time Magazine: https://time.com/6339173/dutch-election-results-geert-wilders-far-right-netherlands-europe/
It’s Brexit and UKIP all over again.
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