Dutch politics is increasingly being held hostage by a bloc of parties we can rightly call the PVV group: PVV, JA21, BBB, SGP, FvD, and even the VVD. They may differ in style and packaging, but their substance is strikingly similar.

Their campaigns and debates are not about solutions but about scapegoats. Each time they pick a new target: migrants, Brussels, climate activists, or so-called “leftist elites”. Their course is not guided by facts, but by the political profit of fear and division.

This strategy is both transparent and dangerous. It is addictive precisely because it is simple: point to a group, label them the culprit, and suddenly the problem seems solved. Meanwhile, nothing changes, or it gets worse.

The housing crisis will not disappear by blaming migrants. Rising healthcare costs will not be solved by branding the left as the enemy.

The climate crisis will not stop by denying it or ridiculing wind turbines. On the contrary, by ignoring structural causes and setting people against each other, society is paralysed and the real problems only deepen.

It is time to break this deadlock. The Netherlands needs a radically progressive politics that does put facts at the centre. The facts show that migration has been stable for decades and is driven mainly by global inequality, not by an “open door” policy.

The facts reveal that the housing crisis is the result of years of speculation and privatisation, not of newcomers seeking a better life. The facts demonstrate that investing in healthcare, education, and climate does not weaken society but strengthens it.

What we need is a political shift in which radical democracy, solidarity, and economic justice once again become central in the Netherlands.

That means a fair tax system where wealth and multinationals pay their share, affordable housing as a basic right, and basic income as a guarantee of security. It means solidarity instead of division, cooperation instead of distrust, and facts instead of fiction.

The question is simple but urgent: will we continue to let ourselves be held hostage by parties that trade in fear, or will we choose politics that unite people and solve problems?

The time of half-truths and false oppositions must end. It is time for a new progressive politics with the courage to say: enough is enough.

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