By now you have heard of the Dutch farmers’ controversy.

The government of The Netherlands is buying out thousands of farms to meet idiotic climate change goals–under the theory that growing food is an unacceptable pollutant–and forcing the most productive farmers in the world to quit feeding people.

Understandably the farmers are upset and have been flexing their political muscle, but it all came to naught when talks between the government and the farmers collapsed. Plans to forcibly close the farms are moving forward. 3000 farms will go “poof” and somehow the climate will be saved.

🇳🇱 Now that the totalitarian Dutch government learned they can effectively crack down on our farmers’ property rights, they’re coming after ordinary citizens next:

An insane new Housing Act will allow municipalities to force homeowners to sell their homes ONLY to people with a…

— Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) June 22, 2023

Having tasted the pleasure of totalitarian power, the government of The Netherlands is expanding its use of arbitrary power for ideological reasons and has decided to essentially take over the housing market, deciding who can and cannot buy homes, and what price private homes may be sold at.

Link to article > https://t.co/SXyNaJ5F9g

— Liarpoliticians, UK has rogue Parliament+police (@liarsinc2) June 22, 2023

As usual, the excuse for seizing a new power is some claim of promoting a nice-sounding value such as “the environment,” or “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

Are you for pollution?! Are you a bigot? A capitalist pig oppressing the poor? “You are a selfish person if you don’t give us power!”

Whenever you hear somebody providing a nice-sounding excuse for seizing a power to which they have no right, ignore the excuse and go directly to the fact that they have no right to seize that power. Power and wealth are the only things they care about. Period.

It is always the power they want. The “goals?”  If the pretty-sounding justifications were the real reason for anything they do we would have seen poverty eradicated in the United States decades ago. We have spent tens of trillions to eradicate poverty, and slums still exist in this country. It was about the trillions, not the poverty.

The “goals” are never achieved. Because the problems are their excuse for seizing every more power and resources.

That is exactly what we are seeing here. The Dutch Left is seizing control over more and more land, and now whatever half of the housing market they choose to control.

Because of course, the law won’t impact all homes–after all, the people in charge want to exclude some (as yet undisclosed) from having to live under these rules–ensuring that in addition to having the power to oppress some people, they will also have the power to dispense goodies to others whom they favor.

The new Housing Act will give municipalities the power to force someone selling their home to sell to people with a lower or middle income. A parliamentary majority supports Minister Hugo de Jonge’s (Public Housing) bill, AD reports.

The idea behind this measure is to make sure people with lower incomes can find a home. Now, they often have to bid against wealthier buyers in the tight housing market. Municipalities can set this requirement on half of owner-occupied homes. The bill also lets municipalities reserve half of owner-occupied homes and rentals for their locals or people with crucial professions like teachers and police officers.

Imagine the possibilities! Pick and choose who gets cut-rate prices, ensuring a reliable voting bloc.

Pick and choose whose houses are market-rate and those who gets a reduced return on their housing investment. This will make some people rich and others poorer. If you are lucky enough to be allowed to sell at market rates, your wealth goes up. If not, your wealth is forced down.

It is the perfect tool to reward your friends and punish your opponents.

The party in power is quite proud of themselves, and are deriding their opponents as believers in the horrendous ideology of…believing that individuals should have rights.

Pieter Grinwis of coalition party ChristenUnie called the D66 and VVD objections “typical liberal individualism.” According to him, the law puts affordable homes within reach of the average citizen.

Why yes! Yes, that’s right. Liberal individualism is another way of saying that people have rights that limit government power. Liberal individualism is, in fact, the only system of government that acknowledges that individuals have any rights at all other than those granted to them by somebody else.

In communist countries, the government got to decide where you can live, how well, and determined your standard of living based upon how useful you were to the people in power. If you played nice you got a better standard of living, and if they really liked you then you lived very well indeed.

And if you pissed them off? You know what happened.

That, too, was all done in the name of equity. Communism sounded good, and as with now the words were the “reality” and the actual reality could be dismissed as a conspiracy theory. Trust the words of those in power. Pay no attention to your lying eyes!

You will own nothing and be happy.

Or else.