Title. Asking because:
- When I was in the US, people glazed NL like it is paradise on Earth
- Recently I moved to NL’s schizophrenic Southern neighbor, where the things I’ve heard about NL is… overall quite messed-up?
- Apparently NL government did some thing about following the US and labeling antifa as a terrorist organization??
… basically above. I have little to no clue about what is going on about NL, and I feel I really, really should have a better grasp of it
It’s one of the most democratic countries on earth (1).
There’s the national, provincial and municipal levels. With some weird stuff like water management (waterschap) being it’s own electable agency outside of the typical political system.
On the national level there’s the executive (cabinet), and a 2 tier legislative (parliament and senate).
It has a very low electoral threshold, so new parties can come (and go) quite fast. Last elections BBB (Boer Burger Beweging/“Farmer Citizen Action”) was such a surprise winner.
Governance is almost always through a coalition of parties.
Anyone who votes PVV, VVD, BBB or FVD is against democracy.
Anyone who says how others should vote is against democracy 🙂
Neither did the person you replied to do that, nor is what you say actually against democracy. Forcing others to vote a certain way is against democracy, but telling someone why they should vote for something is just advertisement.
You’re right :)
The Sea has been shaping NL and it’s society for ages. Keeping it at bay (which is one of the tasks of waterschap I guess) is a life-or-death task.
Very interesting factoid! We should know more about such things in all countries.
Indeed. I like that they decided that politicians shouldn’t meddle with important engineering. :)