A political clock

Yesterday there were general elections in the Netherlands. An extremist right wing party became the largest party. Almost 25% of people who voted, voted for this party. This party wants to deport all people of one certain religion, it wants to ban churches of this one single religion, it wants to ban their book. It wants to stop acting against climate change, no solar, no wind energy, more gas, more cars, and it wants to stop all subsidies for the arts, which it calls leftist hobbies.

So I sat down and enjoyed working on one of my leftist hobbies: making artistic clocks. I made a political clock this time.

I divided the clock into leftwing and rightwing minutes and hours. If the votes would have been 50/50 for left and rightwing parties, it would have been a normal clock. But the Netherlands is clearly leaning right at the moment. About 66.6% of the votes were right wing*. So on this clock 66.6% of the minutes and the hours are on the right hand side of the clock, and the rest is on the left.

Everything on the left is coloured red, which over here is the default color for leftwing parties, I think. On the right everything is coloured brown, which is the default colour for fascists, or for people who have no problem collaborating with fascists.

*Some people might not agree with this division I made. They would argue that many parties that I placed on the left are in reality also rightwing: These parties have been actively supporting an extremist right wing agenda for decades. And these people are right, of course. But if I coloured these parties brown as well this clock would have been too depressing. We need some hope.