On Saturday and Sunday nights, a group of Dutch citizens gathered at the border between Ter Apel and Rütenbrock in Germany with the intention of performing their own border controls and stopping asylum seekers from entering the Netherlands.
On Saturday and Sunday nights, a group of Dutch citizens gathered at the border between Ter Apel and Rütenbrock in Germany with the intention of performing their own border controls and stopping asylum seekers from entering the Netherlands.
The main problem is the dissolution of the state care (verzorgingsstaat). People are unhappy because of rising prices, uncertainty of their future and inability to get a home.
It’s easy to get mad at ‘foreigners’ that get here and just ‘get a home’ like that. Populists really exploit that anger, while people should be mad at 13 years of liberal rule destroying certainties we’ve built up over decades.
If everybody would feel like their basic needs are covered, they could feel more welcoming to foreigners, as if there’s plenty to go around it’s easier to share.
But people get cajoled into thinking that the foreigner is their enemy, whilst the true source of their discontent is the vvd not caring about citizens but about fat, polluting and corrupting businesses, like BlackRock that got free reign to speculate on our housing market.