Last weekend we had district elections for the Flemish and French speaking part of Belgium.
The extreme right party, the Flemish Bloc, seemed to be the ultimate winning partie, ending as the second largest party amongst normal democratic parties. One in four people voted for this racial party who claims to have the solution for all criminality in Belgium (zxcommunicate all immigrants) and has other extreme ideas, like "the wife back to the kitchen and kids, leave the real work up to men" I'm almost ashamed for living in this racial region of Europe.
People have such a short memory. Only 50 years after the second world war, people vote again for such a discriminating party, which holds amongst their members old SS-officers.
I fear for our democratic future. During years, all other democratic parties refused to coöperate with this party, due to its racial ideas and hoped so to reduce the support for this party. But year after year, for 12 years long, this party has grown and grown, until it became the second largest party today. The only solution I see is to let them participate in governance (the same thing they did is Austria with the FPÖ of Jorg Haider). Like this, I think people will rapidly notice which ideas this party is really standing for.
Wasn't there a judge who convicted them for being 'racist' a few months ago? I actually hoped that would help, but alas, it didn't. Now I heard there are a lot of BV's (famous Belgian people) who are publically sympathizing with them. Yeah, it really sucks.
Ik leef met je mee, Ifish.
Now the BV's were sympathizing with the green party, which was a good thing, because we really needed here a party who keeps the green ideology alive.As far I know, no famous man or woman is sympathizing with the flemish block, hallelujah for that.
Oh, they're not? In that case, I must have misread something. Still, fuck Filip Dewinter.