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Eddy Terstall said the Netherlands is more concerned with the future than its origins

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Eddy Terstall said that the Netherlands had more to do with the future than with its origins. He said he had spent the previous weeks discussing the political left and right and asked what that meant for the Netherlands, Dutch culture and the country as an autonomous state.

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Eddy Terstall discusses elitism and populism

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Eddy Terstall wrote that elitism and populism must counterbalance each other in a functioning democracy, which he said requires an open debate. In his column series about the political left and right, he focused on populism and said that people with extensive networks are often theoretically trained, while those with less access to networks and administrative circles are more often practically trained.