{"id":3677,"date":"2002-10-16T15:16:22","date_gmt":"2002-10-16T20:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2012-04-24T15:19:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T20:19:28","slug":"schadenfreude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2002\/10\/16\/schadenfreude\/","title":{"rendered":"Schadenfreude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSo the much lauded rightwing coalition of CDA (Christian democrats), VVD (neoliberals) and LPF (idiots, mostly) has collapsed. <em>Oh dear.<\/em> And I was sooo enjoying the LPF soap.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo what happened to the Revolution, the New Politics the LPF would bring? What happened to Pim Fortuyn&#8217;s heritage? Well, it turned out that stuffing a party full of nitwits, egotrippers and cocky businessmen is not a good idea. Without Pim Fortuyn as leader to guide them, power struggles erupted. The party had no vision, no experience and no leader. It was part of a coalition with the two parties with the worst reputation for power games, whom both had long experience in keeping coalition partners down. The LPF never had a chance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAll of which means there will be new elections soon. Until then, there&#8217;s nobody governing the country and important decisions cannot be taken&#8230; What this will mean for the upcoming decision about extension of the EU, to which the Netherlands has to give its consent, is anybody&#8217;s guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the much lauded rightwing coalition of CDA (Christian democrats), VVD (neoliberals) and LPF (idiots, mostly) has collapsed. Oh dear. And I was sooo enjoying the LPF soap. So what happened to the Revolution, the New Politics the LPF would bring? What happened to Pim Fortuyn&#8217;s heritage? Well, it turned out that stuffing a party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,656],"tags":[659],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch-politics","category-pim-fortuyn","tag-lpf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3678,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions\/3678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}