So instead, I went searching the internet for something that has been in vogue in Holland for years: a political profiler. This is a website that asks you a number of questions and which, based on your answers, tells you where your opinions fit in with the political parties.
I'm not going to tell you my answers, nor who I (according to this website) should be voting for. In my opinion, everyone should make up their own minds, and I don't want to be stigmatized by my choices either.
But one thing struck me. You see, after you've answered all your questions, you can choose to compare your standpoint with those of all the political parties in Europe, either all at the same time or on a country-by-country basis. And, being Dutch, I had a look at the parties from The Netherlands.
Now if you see the chart, one of the Dutch parties stands out: the Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV. It's name translates to the Party for Freedom, and their logo is a flying bird. Yet the graph also shows that they are anti-immigration. Almost off the scale anti-immigration, even. How is that freedom, if you cannot allow people to move between countries? What freedom does this party promise us, exactly? And on that note, I wouldn't vote for them, ever.
Oh, and if you're interested, if I wanted to vote for the party who's closest to my own ideas I'd have to move to Cyprus, apparently. I guess I'll go search for language classes now...
