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Mr Lasastryke posted...

i voted for the socialist party.

main takeaway for me is that FVD, the party of thierry baudet (a politician greatly admired by vlado, as he made clear in the conservative politics topic back in the day) gained six seats. as bad as trump is, he's never said anything that comes even close to the racist (and anti-semitic) vitriol that baudet has spouted (and you guys know how much i've bashed trump's racism in the past years, so that's saying something). yet a gazillion people voted for baudet anyway. jesus christ this country is a joke. it's absolutely fucking ridiculous how racist we are.

...and yeah, you're right in your estimation of rutte. he's been involved in several scandals and his handling of covid has been dreadful, yet his party has also gained seats. beats me.

Sadly the rally round the flag effect is very real. All you have to do is appear to be trying to handling a crisis and people will vote for you in increased numbers. Even the UK, which had woeful pandemic handling from day one saw the Tories get a big early boost before they mercifully pissed it away with the Dominic Cummings scandal. The weirdest example though is definitely Ireland which changed government a few months in, so the party that was in charge early on in the pandemic gets all the credit and the party thats in charge now gets all the blame!

It is fortunate for the Democrats that Trump didnt take the virus seriously. If he had put in an even basic effort he may well have been reelected, even if he still botched it.

Anyway, on the bright side at least Wilders far right party lost seats, and Volt (a pan-European party, so run in all of Europe) got into a parliament for the first time. If they run here too I might give them a vote.

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