polytrip said:
haxxorz said:
are you serious? there are good people in that sinking ship too you know
No, i just had to get this of my chest. I live in this...shitland...and the fascists are basically in charge of the country. You have no idea how retarded the place has become. It IS a sinking ship. 65% of the people supported this fascist administration...meaning 65% of the dutch people belief that muslims are inferiour beings. There can be NO, i repeat NO excuse at all, ever...for supporting the current government.
People who support this government are no better than those germans back in the 30´s and 40´s with their hands up in the air when hitler drove by in his open mercedes. I´m deadserious, those people make me sick.
I live in the Netherlands myself, and yes, I completely disagree with everything this government has done. But it's important to get your statistics right. 76 of 150 chairs in parliament are occupied by the government (racist populists 24, right-wing neoliberals 31, christian conservatives 21).
Don't know where your 65% comes from.
The main issue with democracy, although there is no alternative at the moment, is that the majority of people are stupid, easily influenced, and make their vote based on feelings instead of rational thought. Holland has been a leading country with the same-sex marriage, marijuana laws and other pragmatic, liberal laws. Unfortunately fear has people in it's grip, fear for change. Yes, things have been getting worse and worse in the last 10 years, and last year it's going awfully fast. It seems like it is 'cool' to be right-wing, just as it was cool to be left in the 60's/70's.
This worries me, but I'm optimistic about the future of Holland. We still have a lot left to be destroyed, and the tides will turn, believe me. People are starting to understand what mistake they made now that the effects of neoliberal policy are showing. In a few years we can start rebuilding what has been destroyed.
On drug laws, internationally it is going the right way for sure. Drug possession has been decriminalized recently in whole latin-america and a lot of european countries. The US are, slowly, going the right way too. The growing scientific understanding of the effect of drugs, and especially drug prohibition, will keep making drug policy more pragmatic and rational. I believe that, eventually, it will come to a point where all drugs are legal and people will all be properly informed about the effects of each drug.
But then again, I'm an optimist.
I'm curious, are there people here who disagree with me? About making all drugs legal? I believe that even heroine and crack should be legal, because this is the only way to make education about these substances objective. If some drugs are legal, and some not, it is not possible for the government to make a distiction between the illegal drugs. For example, kids are being told 'drugs are bad, m'kay', without telling them doing LSD is probably a way better idea than doing heroin. Schools cannot do this, because these substances are both equally illegal.