Who not to vote for in the forthcoming elections

In March we'll have city council elections, which in the Netherlands generally take place simultaneously in all municipalities. Now the right of centre CDA (Christian Democrats) have announced that they want to ban 'hate speech'. Also, they'll push for a faster prohibition of political parties that have the wrong kind of agenda.

Typical Dutch authoritarianism: solve a problem by creating more restrictions. I'd rather have 'extremists' compete for their share of the voters in the marketplace of ideas, where their bigotry is in the open for everyone to see, but I guess that's too much to ask from a party that has always believed in a government ruling over the people, rather than in a government by the people.

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