The identifiable ugliness of Mark Rutte (Dutch PM)
The municipal elections are over in The Netherlands and that's nice because now the Dutch prime minister is able to deal with the real problems again. And that's important. At his party, the VVD (extreme rightwing politicians camouflaged as Liberals), they know what the hard-working police officer, nurse, carpenter, plumber, butcher and baker really like. Tax evasion, fraud, integrity scandals, fiddling with receipts, (a dozen of ministers of the prime minister Rutte’s party had to resign in the years he’s in power because of exactly those things) does not bother anyone when you are gouverned by a narcissist, wearing a fresh and tidy shirt with rolled up sleeves, telling who the real profiteers in the country are, the disabled people. The Prime minister and his coalition friends of the Christian Party and the former Democrats of D66, like clear and easy choices that put individuals on either side of their line. Doers or thinkers, builders or profiteers, risk takers or runawa...