by oldedude on July 28, 2022 7:09 pm
Perhaps, but there are three cities that run the country. These are made of either liberal young, or industrial and financial owners. The conservatives are conservatives, but for the most part they are our age and older and are dwindling in numbers.
It's also about the act. The government is willing to put people out of work forever (and knows it) to do this. There is no middle ground. I've been following this for over a couple of weeks. Being Dutch, they brought their machinery to protest in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. They weren't even given an audience with any politicians in Amsterdam. They also really buggered up traffic in den Haag.
"The Netherlands, the world's second-largest agricultural exporter, would have enough food to feed its population even without trade, according to a study by farm-economy researcher Landbouw Economisch Instituut."
So now they're to this. Which is interesting because hay is usually a pretty valuable commodity. And the bullsht is pretty self explanatory. I expect their GDP to plummet if the government keeps this up.
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by oldedude on July 28, 2022 7:19 pm
And no, I'm using a comparative Political view of the terms. Being a still active Monarchy, they're considered a welfare state, not a socialist state. So they are much like the rest of Europe. The difference is who owns the means of production. In the Netherlands, it's private ownership, but there is little generational movement up or down in the economic system. Of the EU, they are higher on the scale of liberalism, than say, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, etc.
