#pvdd

I’m in favour of the party BIJ1 as that one (as well as a lot of points by the Partij voor de Dieren) push for the most radical change both in national and internationally, and poses concrete goals.

This is contrary to GroenLinks which creates a more general story on how education and the environment is important, or the SP, which unfortunately nowadays centers an increase in police forces in its programme.

The former two parties appear to be the only two striving for actual progressive change, and BIJ1 is favoured by antiracist and leftist movements which is always a good sign.

I agree with a lot of points by PvdD on housing, the EU, trade etc. Though there are a few points in their extensive party programme which I can imagine can go wrong, such as the mention of being against arranged marriages and  animal cruelty for the meat industry, bc with a dominantly white party that can result in discriminating policies targeting muslim communities, under the guise of doing it for emancipation. I’m not quite sure but this is a bit where I’m always careful w white environmentalists; that they might target stuff like small-scale halal butchers rather than the mechanized and much more dangerous bio industry. Also in the party’s discussion of the corona virus it briefly discussed that the virus came from animals but I thought it was unsure where it came from?

BIJ1′s full party programme will be released on November 14 and it might be the case for more parties that they have yet to release a programme in more detail, but for now BIJ1 is the only one I recognize as actually leftist and the most outspokenly antifascist. Dutch politics focuses a lot on parties having to find resolutions that meet each other at the middle and everyone should change their direction for the other continuously (poldermodel) but this is literally that ‘meet me in the middle‘ issue where liberalism and fascism are popular and parties keep moving to the right to appeal to the status quo. I’m sick of it and I really want BIJ1 to gain a good amount of votes and respect bc thus far it has been treated like a big joke by media bc the party leader is a Black woman who speaks out against racism and fascism - hell, she even left DENK because it was a weird pro-Erdogan hellhole!