@villavelius Political jury duty is definitely something I've been thinking of as an anti-dote to this marketing driven election cycle. I just don't think people are going to want it.
Anyway, Maurice de Hond is the architect behind the PVV's victory.
Further, Omtzigt now holds the key for a far right coalition if he is willing or not.
@bdiederik They both have connections to Putin.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/10/europe/putin-loses-his-european-friends-intl-cmd/index.html
Better link in Dutch. There's plenty of evidence for a look between Wilders and Putin:
https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/de-banden-tussen-pvv-en-rusland-zijn-sterker-dan-gedacht
It’s almost as if there was some sort of world-wide plot to bring Fascism back.
Or humans are just incredibly stupid.
Actively Evil or Terminally Stupid, you make the call.
@hembrow Together with other far right parties, they hold about 24% of the 150 seats. Then there are the #populist and #conservative right who are veiled racists. They hold about 40% of all the seats.
All in all, about 2/3 of the voters are just awful #climatecrisis denying #fascist leaning #racist people IMO.
We'll see if a cabinet full of grifting clowns can be formed. The other larger parties have indicated they do not want to work with #PVV but that is absolutely no guarantee.
@ambrosen @hembrow the problem adds up. most media is right-wing because capitalist assholes pay good money to influence the public narrative, which means there are more right-wing media because it pays well, and enabled wider reach by saturated market and superior marketing budget to spread it.
media needs to be funded through taxes and media companies need to operate as a politically neutral nonprofit, and any "donation" or otherwise needs to be illegal. this includes social media.
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I always got the impression local media and by extension the politicians demonized PVV over the years. They thought they were painting it in a bad light, but instead giving his dumb ideas airtime.
So when PVV became more moderate in its messaging and there were Palestinian flags everywhere all the time, you don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind was blowing.
While everybody on fedi is coping, its not the end of the world. Just keep your heads cool and carry on.
@hembrow I have no knowledge of the Dutch situation, but here in the US, it's more than just the media.
1) Fascism (and Communism, too) are just an older generation's taboos. Sort of like the f-bomb when I was growing up, people don't respect old taboos. The problems with fascism are now vague.
2) Loud, strident insensitivity towards the pain of working class and rural people disadvantaged by progress. Too large a portion of the population has seen their way of life crushed.
@hembrow #neoliberalism leads to #fascism
#neoliberalism leads to #fascism
#neoliberalism leads to #fascism
#neoliberalism leads to #fascism
#neoliberalism abolishes institutions that can solve real problems, by handing over essential state coordination to the highest bidder.
Then when problems come they cant be solved since coordination ability has vanished.
On top of that oligopolies have So much power they can stop any meaningful change
#neoliberalism leads to #fascism
@hembrow that really sucks.
We're all in similar boats, as well.
We need to figure out a way to unhack our media machines, that have so woefully betrayed the democracy that allowed them in the first place.
@IngenieurStefan Obviously no-one is blaming "just" the media. But having a media which organises a circus around every new right wing party, which they see as amusing, and which almost never bothers to do fact checks even of the most outrageous claims, inevitably leads the public towards supporting those parties.
We've seen it again and again: Fortuyn, Verdonk, Wilders, Baudet, van der Plas. All of them normalized and enabled by our media, which made them far larger than they ever could have become on their own.
It's relentless. Last year's TV series about Pim Fortuyn, for instance, brought his ideas back into mainstream again 20 years after his death.
You're right that the same kind of thing is happening worldwide, but it's happening elsewhere for much the same reason as it is happening here. Brexit in the UK, for instance, was enabled by media controlled by right-wing interests who presented the most ridiculous claims as if they were valid. Nigel Farage was amongst those treated as a celebrity on the TV. This led many average people to vote against their own interests.
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