Soldato
Hello,
With the elections coming up here I'm often discussing them on various news sites.
What boggles me most is, most people voting for the left wing parties, keep accusing me of being antisocial, egoistic and saying the right wing parties will divide the country in 2 and ruin in, and tell everyone to vote for the socialist party. Luckily, the biggest party atm in polls is exactly the party I like, A conservative-liberal party, but the lefties seem to **** them constantly.
A short list of the parties and their stance on things:
The current polls (seats out of 150):
Now, this seems to completely panic most of the left wing brigade, they seem to be desperate, thinking people like me can be converted to vote for the SP ( socialist party), like that will ever happen, people who believe in a free market will never vote for a communist-socialst party! They are the slowest in doing anything about the debt and basically their solution to everything is to tax the successful/rich more. Do they really think that by name calling and swearing they can convert people to not vote on the right ?
With the elections coming up here I'm often discussing them on various news sites.
What boggles me most is, most people voting for the left wing parties, keep accusing me of being antisocial, egoistic and saying the right wing parties will divide the country in 2 and ruin in, and tell everyone to vote for the socialist party. Luckily, the biggest party atm in polls is exactly the party I like, A conservative-liberal party, but the lefties seem to **** them constantly.
A short list of the parties and their stance on things:
Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), a centre-right Christian Democratic party. It holds to the principle that government activity should supplement but not supplant communal action by citizens. The CDA puts its philosophy between the "individualism" of the VVD and the "statism" of the PvdA.
The Labour Party (PvdA), a social democratic, centre-left Labour party. Its programme is based on greater social, political, and economic equality for all citizens.
The Socialist Party (SP), in its first years a radical socialist/communist party, a Maoist split from the Communist Party Netherlands, is now a more mainstream socialist party, left from the PvdA on economic issues but at the same time taking more conservative positions on issues like integration and national identity than the PvdA.
The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), a conservative liberal party. It attaches great importance to private enterprise and the freedom of the individual in political, social, and economic affairs.
Democrats 66 (D66), a social-liberal radical party. The party supports liberal policies on abortion and euthanasia and reform of the welfare state. The party is left-wing on immigration, environment and foreign policy.
The Party for Freedom (PVV), an anti-Islam nationalist-conservative party founded and dominated by Geert Wilders, formerly of the VVD. Its philosophy is based on free market economics and opposition to immigration and European integration.
Green Left (GroenLinks) combines, as its name implies green environmentalist ideals with left-wing ideals. The party is also strongly in favour of the multicultural society.
Christian Union (ChristenUnie), a Christian-democratic party made up by mostly orthodox Protestant Christians, with conservative stances on abortion, euthanasia and gay marriage. In other areas the party is considered centre-left, for instance on immigration, welfare state and environment.
The Party for the Animals is a single-issue animal rights party with natural affinity for environmental issues. In general, the party is considered left of the centre.
The Political Reformed Party (SGP), the most orthodox Protestant party with conservative policies: government is only to serve God. It is a testimonial party. Only in 2006 and after heavy political pressure were women allowed to be members of this party.
Left/right& progressive/conservative spectrum:
The current polls (seats out of 150):
VVD 36
PvdA 29
CDA 24
PVV 18
SP 12
Groen Links 10
D66 11
ChristenUnie 7
SGP 2
PvdDieren 1
Now, this seems to completely panic most of the left wing brigade, they seem to be desperate, thinking people like me can be converted to vote for the SP ( socialist party), like that will ever happen, people who believe in a free market will never vote for a communist-socialst party! They are the slowest in doing anything about the debt and basically their solution to everything is to tax the successful/rich more. Do they really think that by name calling and swearing they can convert people to not vote on the right ?
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