fahrenheit451:133

Well, that went rather badly..The Dutch general election all done and dusted. The heretofore ruling party of Premier Rutte lost around 20% of its parliamentary seats;whilst the once predominant Labour Party was virtually annihilated at the polls and Geert Wilders' populist Freedom Party gained a hand full of seats. The unanimous verdict and widely trumpeted conclusion of all the pundits,experts and analysts in the MSM (Mainstream Media) therefore, was that the " winner " was declared as being the incumbent Premier Rutte who valiantly and decisively saw off the imminent threat of populism and struck a blow for tolerant,multiculturally inclusive PC Europe. Wow!! even after losing 20% of their seats. The putative populist " threat " ,i.e. islamophobic,xenophobic,racist anti-EU Geert Wilders was soundly defeated!! after gaining a few more seats than previously. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. It is compulsory to maintain two mutually contradictory thoughts at the same time. Wilders is Goldstein. Meanwhile in the eminently more rational and plausible alternate timeline of recent events; Erdogan's grotesque theatrics and accompanying soundtrack of specious hyperbole over the Netherlands refusal to allow Turkish government Ministers to conduct political referendum rallies in Rotterdam is finally catalogued under the heading S for Sham. Even now the Bulgarian government is embroiled in a vigorous exchange of invective with Turkey over Turkish attempts to meddle in the Bulgarian electoral process. Quite what connection that has to this sudden and unexpected retreat of the forces of Populism across an entire make believe and materially non-existent single  " european " polity is anyone's guess. The grand historic sociopolitical mise en scene that is or rather was the western democracies has already been transformed out of all recognition. Next up, the advance of AfD across Germany and MarineLePen setting the tone and parameters of popular discourse in France. the day of the idiotic placard-wavers is over. Hail #brexit Hail Victory.Hail The People.