Column | Molken People – NRC

Perhaps it is because nowadays ‘the people’ is so widely represented in parliament, at least if it shows up there, because that is how the people are: if they don’t like them, they vote with their feet. Or because there are quite a bit in the media that are proud of their many exchanges with ‘the people’.

It is so much that I am no longer waiting for the opinion of ‘ordinary Dutch’ about, for example, the fall of the cabinet. If there is already an umbrella opinion, we have already heard it and otherwise we will get it from Gijs Rademakers or Maurice de Hond, in some cases you will have something to do. The story goes that Geert Wilders definitively knew that he could « pull the plug » when Maurice had surveyed that a large part of his ordinary supporters would understand.

Reporters of all channels and broadcasters went everywhere again yesterday with their camera cars, to the markets in the big cities, but also to PVV hotests such as Uden, where one in three inhabitants had voted on Geert Wilders. It was not that I was rocking on the couch from curiosity about what the shopping audience thought of it. Opinions were neatly cut. There were those Geert Wilders understood, others did not know, there were disappointed and there were also a few party lovers who had no high cap from the fallen cabinet from the very beginning.

I saw a tormented people.

Hard caused by the peaks and valleys that imperfect life simply brings with them, failing politicians who never do what they promise and then by reporters who hoped to answer as wild as possible. They got what they came for: nobody counted on something anymore. Uden, Edam, Culemborg, the Albert Cuyp: it was blown price shooting, the same quotes were on offer everywhere. It is a shame that we did not see the, probably ordinary, faces, as they asked questions to ordinary people whose answers they were deeply not interesting.

« Hello madam, day sir. »

« Yes, see you, until the next elections again. »

And then again with their shopping bags on wheels, to the edge filled with oranges.

Marcel van Roosmalen Writes a column on Monday and Thursday.

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