I'm just saying how most of the people I meet outside are. They don't have these lists handed to them. They only see some Tesla stuff on the news.
Bart De Wever was not a member of the Vlaams Blok.
Oh my. For as long as I remember I thought it was VB and not VU. I remember him being a racist cuck when he was still fat. I guess that's why I remember him being with VB for some reason.
NVA is better than VB. So there's that at least.
[reasons why people vote for NVA]
Yes these reasons are correct. I thought you meant why people voted for BDW specifically.
I however see almost all of those reasons as pure class welfare. They know how to play this game.
I would like to see some dirt on them though.
For privacy reasons I will not share most of the dirt I found, as most of it relates to the municipalities I lived at. But I found a lot of weird subsidies whenever NVA is in power using the subsidy registry: https://subsidieregister.vlaanderen.be/ords/xxsr/r/subsidieregister/home
Big cities are hard to look trough, but smaller municipalities are much easier. Look for wherever a LOT of money goes into megaprojects. Even if they seem altruistic in nature. Look up BTW numbers of these megaprojects and figure out who is on the board. 9 out of 10 there will be NVA party members on the board in NVA led municipalities. Compare this to municipalities with mayors of more "left" parties and you'll find that NVA really likes to have their members in all of these boards. Who would have guessed.
The BTW register also allows you to find a lot of loopholes (achterpoortjes) that are being abused. The last one I looked into was the Zoo of Antwerp. There are 2 legal Zoos of Antwerp. 1 to receive non-profit subsidies to run the whole goddamn park. The other one is a for profit that is raking in millions of euros in profits. Go figure.
They all probably are filling their own pockets one way or another, funny that le Pen fucked up big time for a mere 4-5 million euros of expense savings in 12 years time.
Politicians can't have too much money or it would be extremely suspicious. If you're going to commit fraud as a politician you should set up some schemes while in office like injecting yourself into the companies that you got the government to pay for. Then slowly disappear from the stage after your time and start slowly reaping in the profits. Trying to actively defraud the government is not allowed. But being a classy Belgian who just did their country/municipality a favor with "innovations" and "cultural projects" and that they got "lucky that it somehow started making money" is just perfectly fine. What a joke.
Oh you said background, I misunderstood. Well we've been a "mengelpot" for decades.
What are the good things about him? Why does the majority of our region vote for him?
The good thing used to be that when he switched from VB to NVA he dropped all the racist bullshit. He seemed to start accepting all the different people. trying to get everybody living and working together and that everybody was happy. He also is the self-proclaimed victim of drug violence because of him "trying to protect the people from all the drug problems".
But it's all false. For the people that do their research and don't just listen to the media, it seems that was all a ruse to get to power. He only played the cards that would make him the most popular. As I said, NVA has been the party of "vriendjespolitiek", and is silently racist and in it for the money. They portray the image of the quality Flemish person and get their votes that way. Yet when you look into budget spending, you'll see NVA mayors and party members in all the companies and boards that get funding. Quality Flemish my ass. Being all nice to the people of the community only to take its money.
For the drug stuff. The Belgians are actually very responsible drug users. They keep bringing up the sewer water of Antwerp as a statistic for drug problems, but then neglect the fact that Antwerp has far less drug problems than other cities. (Most of it isn't even the cocaine from the sewers they keep rambling about). They know damn right what gangs are active and who every player is, yet let them battle it out for what reason exactly? So he can be the guy that is on the front line of this "war". And the people eat it up.
There are many other things. But those are his biggest wins. Plus there are also many people who vote NVA because they love being Flemish but can't call themselves racist.
You can move to Indonesia
That's not what I meant with being rich.
Brussels and Anderlecht aren’t in flanders buddy, other government.
Ah yes. You are correct.
He doesn’t care if they are of European descent
Until you actually look at who these people are. They are all rich and "classy". The NVA party leaders and mayors also surround themselves with self-employed white people that just have to kiss their ass and get subsidies. I can give you the proof for this, but I don't think you'd even do the research.
Which is fine, majority of Belgians are rich.
Incorrect. Belgium has a huge middle class with a very decent social net. That makes everybody feel rich, which is awesome, but it is not rich like the people that are his target audience.
He wants stability.
Ehh, that's meaningless. It's every politician's goal eventually. Even that of dictators. It's the other goals and the means to get there that are far more important.
Majority of Antwerp have immigrant background
It's 23,5% - https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerpen_(stad)
So maybe, these immigrants actually like him?
They don't. Most of the immigrants voted for PVDA and Groen.
We’re importing people from right wing countries, you’re aware of this I’m sure. My Turkish diaspora friend votes for Erdogan. Just like most Turks here.
"Importing" is a pretty awful term here. Often used by anti immigration nationalists. It's not "importing" because immigrants are almost exclusively migrating by themselves nowadays. We are not asking them to come work in our country like we did with in the past.
Maybe he'll try and get everybody to trade at a single moment so the trades go over it. Like starting a war.