A recent RTL Nieuwspanel survey shows that 25 percent of Dutch voters have lost confidence in every political party. This distrust is especially strong among those who voted for Nieuw Sociaal Contract (NSC), with 32 percent expressing no trust, as well as voters for BBB (28 percent) and PVV (26 percent).
Is it democracy that has a problem, or is it humans? Take the housing crisis, for example. We want low rents without lotteries, except we also want beautiful cities without commieblocks or even high-rises, and the significant proportion of voters who own their own homes want home values to always increase. And god forbid property taxes forces a retired old person out of a home that’s far larger than what they need. There is just no solution that satisfies all constraints. So we muddle through, mumbling something about “damn foreigners” and “eat the rich”. If we all actually agreed the housing crisis is a problem we’re willing to make sacrifices to solve, then we’d solve it in an instant. But no. Only mimimi.