Politics often do works by minor majorities unfortunately

Unfortunately only a little amount of people do decide which policy states will do. E.g. George Bush was elected to become President of the USA with about only 5,000 voters who did make the difference for the politics of the USA and properly for a certain larger scale of the world.
As intellectual or whatever this also means is it your duty to talk about it. Because we living in just one world. I like the Jewish saying, which says when you save one person you already save whole mankind.
And we must find a way out of the xenophobia of politics. And find our own nature back of loving an caring for each other. It sounds like "free hugs", but it does go further then this.
Freedom of Speech is also important as Respect. People only want to vote for people who talk hard. Even knowing they don’t have the answers. The Dutch people are looking back for old tendencies.
In the early days, everything was better. Mostly they refer to foreigners, which they do see as the people who spoil our society. But the Netherlands has must have many thanks to foreign labours who give us the prosperity we do have at the moment. Only you see that poverty and richdom is spread wrongly over our country.
The City Kerkrade where I dwell. Is quite poor. And even the efforts of people it is hard to get out of this situation. We must need everyone to take notice and participation to over think this problem and try to solve this.
You can think about micro-credits our something like that to start a little business. Because somehow big companies do not notice we do live and work on the balcony of Europe. Near by Germany and Belgium. Europe is still not fair to cities on the borders of cities. And politicians only think about their own country instead of their own blood-group. (Socialist or environmentalists, or Christian Democrats). We have still to go an long journey.
Meyers, Kerkrade 03-11-2007
PS also look on the website www.kazapoorter.com for nice art work.