Comments by "Martin Maat" (@MartinMaat) on "The awful truth behind Dutch election results — Mehran Khalili interviews Lucille Cornelius" video.

  1. He is bad alright. But he is not the worst though. We have someone considerably worse in Dutch politics (really far right) and he lost big in this election so there is a silver lining. Geert is mainly known for his anti-imigration and anti-islam stance and he is generally anti-Arab. He is outspokenly pro-Israel and probably takes money from the Israelis. So, that is bad enough. I do not expect him to get anywhere with his anti-islam BS but he will propably get his cap on immigration because other parties will see there is no gain in opposing that. The years to come will be chaotic with lots of scandals (the first one already emerged) because he will not be able to fill those seats with remotely capable people. It is going to be "interesting".
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  2.  @susanshelit  No, muesliman is right. You don't seem to have figured out how this works yet. Mind this: people who have less than you are hardly ever your problem. In our capitalist society you have people with lots of cookies and people with few cookies. Suppose there are 10 cookies. The big guy has 9, you have 1. Then comes someone without a cookie. And the big guy tells you "Watch out! That new guy is after your cookie!" And then you vote for Geert Wilders.
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