Trying to wrap my head around the fact that we now have a (pretty far) right government, including Holocaust deniers and Neo-nazis….
Not because people want a fascist regime but bc they were promised release from Covid measures.. by fascists.
So we’re in trouble not because people are evil per se, but because they are shortsighted, egotistical and plain stupid. I wish it would have surprised me, it doesn’t.
I’m ashamed of my country. I cant remember that ever being different. Cant remember one single time that I felt pride in saying I’m Dutch. What should I be proud of? Our part in the slave trade? Our part in plundering the world, colonizing whatever we deemed profitable? In the history-books it’s called De Gouden Eeuw, The Golden Century. For whom I wonder? There was a select few that indeed made a fortune but all at the cost of those we deemed less valuable then ourselves. That’s disgusting.
There is a group of people that take a lot of pride in Dutch history. Not surprisingly those are the same voices we hear every year defending our true Dutch tradition of Black Pete. Come to think of it, those are the same voices we hear every demonstration to get rid of the Covid measures..
Damn.