There is a sense among many Europeans, not just in the Netherlands, that they have been abandoned in a fast-changing world, that multi-national corporations are more powerful than nation-states, that the urban rich and highly educated do fine and ordinary folks in the provinces languish, while democratically elected politicians are not only powerless, but have abjectly surrendered to these larger forces that threaten the common man.
Hay razones para que la gente sienta ansiedad acerca de la globalización económica, la burocracia paneuropea, el enorme y no siempre bien controlado flujo de inmigrantes, y la agresión del Islam político radical.