for my own mental health, I haven't been following political news particulary closely, and when I voted yesterday I had the sincere hope that it was finally time for a leftist coalition to rise to power in the Netherlands. welllll...nope.

I am sad, mad, worried, and disgusted. The only thing to keep morale bolstered is that we have a multiple party system and there will not be a single party ruling the country, but a coalition, and other parties to vote against their plans. But this is a massive step back in almost every way imaginable, and one I'd hoped we would never take.