Why the Dutch Voted for Radical Change

[Music] foreign the Netherlands is a small country seen as utopia great infrastructure unparalleled government graphic design and an immense amount of Economic and Engineering power concentrated in a small well-managed piece of land but the Netherlands is not a perfect country it's currently facing one of the worst housing crisis in the world its governing parties aren't really trusted after falsely charging thousands of parents with abusing Child Benefits a country that is expected to manage well but manage Corona just pretty badly one that's known for being egalitarian but is seeing increasing inequality and it's a country that many feel lacks an adequate Vision in a world that requires Direction sure it can compromise on some nice things but it can act quickly on few the Netherlands is not perfect unfortunately for you a random college student in a basement has managed to figure out exactly what's wrong with it I have all the answers see the Dutch personality is a blend between priest and Merchant and also an angry old man on the one hand an undeniable feeling of original sin the Dutch must avoid arrogance and vanity at all costs where you risk the danger of standing out from the crowd normalcy is not boring it's encouraged on the other hand you have the merchant a deep pragmatism and efficient work ethic little waste and a deep focus on function were the frugality that produces thick wallets forget ordering in mashed potatoes with carrots is more than sufficient but between them is also that angry old man that voices their concerns nitpicks and complains about everything in a bluntness that has become accepted because that's just that's just you know how they are and it's that blend of characters that helps us understand where the netherlands's strengths begin but where its biggest weaknesses lie in the holders River area are two districts boomerular vart and over beta in the 16 and 1700s both faced the risk of severe flooding so they did what the Dutch do best Bill Dykes but the two districts were not the same overbatua had larger farms and more extensive Estates was more unequal than bomolervard where a large portion of farmers worked smaller plots that they own directly and some beulavide Villages less than 40 percent of the land belonged to the nobility in institutions but an overbatua it was more than 70. the two districts had different societies with different levels of inequality but still there was something that United them a desire not to be killed by water the Netherlands lies on the North Sea where dangerous water is a fact of life the land was first populated by the fries modern-day friesians called watermen by the Romans who built their homes on Terrapin primitive mounds of easily manipulate clay and peat that would protect them from Storm surges but the water mud men were an Innovative and Restless Bunch Terrapin combined which made room for larger Villages that constructed smaller dikes to protect crops than entire sea walls along with emergency Dykes coins slavskates and the one and only pulled her the polder is one of the most recognizable features of the Netherlands build a wall around water and use a pumping system to pump water out Dutch people manipulate water it's a story most know but what we forget is the reverse direction of the relationship how water changed through the Dutch are themselves building dikes isn't easy but building the institutions that regulate that water management is harder dikes are the difference between life and death and a single person cannot maintain a system of dikes on their own so Dykes gave birth to Dyke solidarity entire communities be you rich or poor farmer or urbanite Protestant or Catholic were tasked with relying on each other for dike maintenance if the dike went down you'd all drown communities establish water boards where everyone could voice and deliberate about water management and a culture of open discussion nitpicking and consensus had to develop Farmers needed to know if their neighbors were holding up their side of the bargain and if someone was an adventurous type who wanted to expand the land and change something about it it'd be very possible that they could produce disastrous consequences for another so consensus for large-scale decisions became even more important not being normal was a liability and that brings us back to Boomer of ours and over betua they were different in their levels of inequality but in the more unequal over Bay to the craftsmen who worked on the land sat on the same water board as those who owned the land they worked on in Boomer of art nearly 50 percent of households held positions on the Village Council tasked with managing water at some point in their lives and an overbatua it was the same the looming danger of Water Gave room for political equality when economic inequality did not irrespective of property or social class hundreds of years ago the Dutch afforded large sections of its population a right to nitpick and endlessly discuss how water would be managed the precursor for the Dutch system of pragmatic agreement and consensus that exists to this day the boulder model a system of consensus politics that is like no other on Earth Coalition governments are governments where a single party is not able to secure a majority of seats and to pass legislation they need to form a coalition with others to end up with a majority after an election the Dutch Parliament the Toyota Camry will point for Kenner that investigates potential combinations of parties that can form a coalition when a potential combination is found a new person the informator will be appointed to guide the negotiations between those parties the informator together with the Coalition parties will begin drafting a coalition agreement which will then steer government policy for the years that that Coalition is in power now a similar process is practiced by others sure but Dutch Coalition Agreements are among the most elaborate not only are they able to secure some of the most precisely defined deals that exist but the Dutch take Coalition deals more seriously than most this graph shows the time it takes to form a political Coalition in Europe and the Netherlands stands out on top now you have Belgium sometimes but Belgium is Belgium but Dutch Coalition times are not a good thing an agreement in the end sure but it also reflects a system that isn't perfect one where it has become even more difficult to form coalitions and produce policy and one that isn't getting any better the Netherlands used to be led by a big three vivide Seria and pivria the merchant priest and old angry man respectively although they were criticized for party dominance the push and pull between all three provided stability for the Coalition governments a loss of one would be made up by the other two in the next although they still Market each other as parasites they're actually pretty codependent on each other but the big three have declined and in its place the number of parties has gone into overdrive with 150 seats the Tomato camera has 16 political parties that's a lot for a small country caused in part by the country being essentially one gigantic district with proportional voting all 150 seats will be distributed across all the votes but what makes the Dutch system uniquely prone to producing more parties is that it also has one of the lowest thresholds to enter Parliament that exists 0.67 percent the equivalent of one seat one of the purest examples of trying to give everyone a seat at the table in Germany if you don't get around five percent of the vote you're not getting access to Laguna stock either and these new smaller parties although they may be derivative of another still need to set themselves apart you end up with parties like 50 plus a party for the elderly and also a party for the animals one of the first of its kind volt fragments the left liberal days has incestor because it gives Dutch University students with the personality of a root vegetable more character by letting them find all their meaning in European integration and altogether the fragmentation of parties into smaller ones makes a it more difficult to form coalitions the consensus needed to guide the country the boulder model is no longer an advantage it's a penalty this graph shows the number of parliamentarians relative to population and stubborn country she is the Netherlands likes to stand apart it's a small country but it has even smaller numbers of people to represent the population on the national level a large party although at risk of dominating and being boring can breed specialization of members in the Toyota Camry and better control the governing cabinet if they're in the opposition it's not easy to have experts on financial education foreign and green energy policy with only one or two people unless they're Youtubers of course who are experts on everything add on the problem that there aren't enough support staff for parliamentarians to make up for the lack of members in the Toyota Camry and you end up with one of the largest issues for the Netherlands no longer the dry effective pragmatic chamber it once was it's instead seen a steep rise in motis literally just official political statements instead of experienced dry consensus Builders you get politicians that fling easy dramatic political rhetoric Dutch parliamentarians spend more time signaling what they believe in rather than getting laws passed that actually achieve it a rise in empty marketing politics and a system that isn't built for it maybe it's an experienced thing politicians just need time to gain more experience so they can produce effective legislation instead of crafting viral tweets but instead the Netherlands has seen a historic rise in politician turnover politicians leave the trade a camera faster than they have before so what you get is more parties less experienced legislators which means less experienced Coalition Builders and then you hand them an especially thick set of problems that they need to solve be it housing Corona or an influx of refugees but if it can't handle those problems what you get is a historic rise in distrust the strong consensus pragmatic nature of the Netherlands works well when the priest Merchant and angry old man work together but it struggles when they compete for top of the Heap too much of the old angry man led to a housing crisis constant critical nitpicking has a knack of being easier than actually building and today the Netherlands is blessed with one of the least elastic housing supplies that exists in the world too much of the priest meant a Corona crisis where no person felt arrogant enough to take the lead even when the speed of a decision was a question between life and death and too much of the merchant meant that when Europe cried for fiscal solidarity the Dutch just said no like a cheese sandwich every day for lunch another example of Dutch frugality taken to such an extreme that it's embarrassing so a priest Merchant an old man walk into a boulder and they start to complain the merchant says we saved up a bunch of money by never cooking anything remotely delicious so we can build something we should probably build something so the priest nervously replies why why should I build something you have to be pretty arrogant to suggest that you can build something but then the old angry man interrupts because he feels like he's not being heard well if something's going to be built we better be in agreement and get it right because I don't want to build anything I don't agree with and I want to make sure that this tiny irrelevant detail is met before I start doing anything and so they begin to argue as they have for hundreds of years but what has made the Netherlands special is that if they can temper those differences in order to produce a result that result can often be better than the three give credit to almost a year 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Length: 13min 35sec (815 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 25 2022