不仅是荷兰人，而且许多欧洲人都有这样一种感觉，那就是它们在一个快速改变的世界中被抛弃了，跨国公司比民族国家更为强大，城市里的富人和受过良好教育的人日子过得不错而外省的普通百姓则艰难度日。 民选政治人物不仅庸庸碌碌，而且对那些威胁普通人的更为强大的势力低头。
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.