Posts Tagged ‘elections’

Its exactly as I have predicted for about 6 months: the dutch liberal party (VVD) pulls the plug out of the option of forming a coalition government with Geert Wilders 24 hours before the actual election. The argument presented is that Geert Wilders movement has no ‘presence in the Upper House (Eerste Kamer)’ and as such it would be impossible for the VVD to push the reforms it wants.

However, that fact, that Wilders Party wasn’t present in de Upper House (Eerste Kamer) was a known fact during the entire elections. Why didn’t the VVD make this clear before? Why did they wait until 24 hours before the election before they made it clear they had no intention of forming a government with Geert Wilders?

The answer is obvious: this is very clever political spindoctoring from the side of the neoliberals. It makes you wonder if it hasn’t been the plan all along: launch a rightwing party from within your ranks, make it behave as radical as possible thus drawing a wide spectrum of votes, and, right in front of the election, pull the plug out causing that:

1. The voters understand they will vote on a useless party
2. Meanwhile you have adopted your own party program in such fashion that it resembles the plans of Wilders to such extent that they can really only come to you as an alternative.

The Netherlands have about 150000 governemt informants and spindoctors and about 15000 journalists. Can you imagine what its like to live in a country where every journalist has 10 spindoctors assigned to himself? That’s the reality of the political system we have created here.

Somehow I feel
that if one would put a
nose-picking baboon on one side
and a supermodel on the other one
those elections would still be
a 50/50 tie.

That’s because
the only answer massive numbers have
to any question is: 50/50!

Ask the grains of sand on a beach
which way you are going
and you will soon
need to be bailed out
by the waves of the sea.

It’s just that the sea
doesn’t baptise itself with it’s own water
to save itself from the sea,

I guess the sea is a communist.

M.H.Benders, 25-09-2008

You can’t institutionalize change. I wrote an article about this last week in respect to dutch poetry. Renewal and change are protest movements. Once you institutionalize them they die. This is true for politics as well. In Holland we had countless politicians who ‘would change the existing elite’ and ‘change Den Hague’ and in reality they have always proven to be worse than the thing they pretend to be fighting. There is a reason for that. Change is a sacred phenomenon, a high and creative sort of energy. Once you stick something holy into a mudpool, the mudpool just looks much much worse.

Prior to the ‘change’ it looked just like what it was: an unpretentious mudpool. After the ‘change’ it looks like the same old mudpool, but with something you hold dear lying in the middle, all smudged up and dirty. That’s what happens when you institutionalize change. It will never work. Holy things and mudpools aren’t fit to be partners.

So McCain, Obama, the so called advocates of change: I would never ever vote for them. The only person I would perhaps vote for is the guy that would say he wouldn’t change a thing about this mudpool he’s going to manage. That you can expect the same kind of corrupt crap from him as from the others. Such honesty would likely win him my vote, and lose him the votes of all the idiots who believe that one can baptize turds.

These are not presidents, these are marketing products. Anything that answers exactly to the expectations of the mass consumers is suspect. The fact that people nowadays vote for marketing products is evidence that these products have no power whatsoever of their own. It’s the guys that paid the marketing agencies to come up with these products that are pulling the ropes. Sometimes it seems evident the same guys pay for both products. At any rate, the only real change would be an entirely different system. Obama isn’t interested in change. You won’t hear him say anything about the idiotic media circus, the waste of hundreds of millions of dollars on fake shows, the inherent flaws in the system he represents. It is the Janus-head dictatorship of the media, disguising as a popular democracy. Nothing will change, or, if it does, it will probably get worse.

Gisteravond een zwaardere bomaanslag in Istanbul. Niks van gemerkt want die wijk ligt ver van het eiland. Bomaanslagen vind ik altijd bij voordaat verdacht. Welke idioot doet het nu plezier honderd onbekende mensen te verwonden of doden? Het is een middel dat altijd averechts werkt en daarom juist een bijzonder geschikt instrument voor manipulatie. Het zou mij niks verbazen als het gros der aanslagen door mannetjes in kantoortjes gepland worden om extra budget vrij te krijgen voor hun plannetjes. Ik maakte bij 9-11 nog de fout in de authenticiteit van die gebeurtenis te geloven en die fout maak ik niet nog een keer. Ik zie tegenwoordig al het nieuws per definitie als propaganda.

Verder vandaag die rechtszaak tegen de AKP maar weet niet of de uitslag ook vandaag komt.Het is erg lastig om in deze partij te kiezen voor mij.

Wat ik prettig aan Turkije vind is dat zo’n bericht over een bom met honderd gewonden een dag het nieuws beheerst en dat daarna de media het er niet meer over hebben. Wat een verschil met nederland waar men totaal sensatiegeil wekenlang doormeiert over zoiets.

Naar mijn idee is de beste oplossing voor het israel conflict en de situatie in america er totaal geen media aandacht aan te schenken. Het idee dat daar iets belangrijks gebeurt is juist de hele basis van het probleem. De wereld moet juist een sterk signaal afgeven dat zulke zaken en mensen oninteressant zijn. Zolang die mensen denken dat elke scheet die zij laten wereldnieuws wordt blijven ze maar scheten laten. Ik kijk daarom maar zo min mogelijk nieuwsprogramma’s…