{"id":30068,"date":"2016-01-22T15:32:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T13:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d66.nl\/vanmierlostichting\/archive\/liberal-citizenship\/"},"modified":"2016-01-22T15:32:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T13:32:52","slug":"liberal-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"archive","link":"https:\/\/d66.nl\/vanmierlostichting\/archive\/liberal-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"Lees hier het pdf<\/a>\u00a0van dit artikel.<\/em>\n\nDoor Wouter Koolmees<\/strong>\n\nThe Berlin Wall fell when I was 12 years old. Ahold ceo Anders Moberg lowered his bonus in 2003. And the Arab Spring was two years ago. Very different events, of course, but all good ex\u00adamples of changes brought about because people came together and actively fought for common goals in society. Pure expressions of what I call \u2018liberal citizenship\u2019. Citizens who are independ\u00adent, but also feel a shared responsibility for the fate of others and for society as a whole. To me, this is a realisation of one of the pillars of D66: Trust in people\u2019s own power. The Arab Spring shows that, however repressive a state might be, and how difficult problems might seem, if the group of individuals is large enough, their power is ultimately unstoppable. As a social-liberal I would like to enable people to actually take on their responsibility.\n\nPaul Schnabel, sociologist and Director of the Netherlands Institute for Social Research, often tells us about the state of affairs in the Netherlands. It turns out that people say: \u2018I am doing fine, but we are doing badly.\u2019 How is this possi\u00adble? Almost everyone thinks the government is not nearly doing enough to fulfil their needs. And the secret is: the government simply cannot accomplish this. Politicians should therefore state more often: \u2018You yourself have abilities, capacities and possibilities!\u2019 Look for example at the Brent Spar affair. The debate about the outdated Shell oil platform that needed to be demolished, finally resulted in companies trying to take more corpo\u00adrate social responsibility. This is also liberal citi\u00adzenship: rising up to the challenge, thinking through how things could be better and then real\u00adize those ideas. It is not the state that fixes things for us, but society itself that feels responsible.\n\nFrom here it is now only a small step to the thoughts of Robert Reich, former Minister of Social Affairs and Employment under President Clinton. Reich is the author of the book Supercapitalism, <\/em>in which he argues that people can manifest themselves in society in three differ\u00adent ways. As \u2018citizen\u2019, as \u2018consumer\u2019 and as \u2018inves\u00adtor\u2019. For actual liberal citizenship, it is of great importance that the values of these three roles are neatly lined up. Take for example child labour. Someone can reject this as a citizen, but as a con\u00adsumer wear clothes made by children, and as an investor buy invest in child labour via his pension fund. Here lies an opportunity for us as a social-liberal party, to let people see these imbalances, to make people aware of the role they have , and encourage their personal strengths.\n\nThe call for \u2018moral leadership\u2019 is heard again and again. And of course, politicians must set the right example. This is something on which also the less action oriented parties should focus more. But as a politician, I see it as my main task to ensure that people themselves can realize their own ideas and ideals about change. For example by giving them insight in and control over the investments made with their pension fund. Or by making sure that people can easily switch to another bank \u2013 without losing their personal bank account number – when they believe their bank pays to much salaries and bonuses. By doing so, we provide people with the possibilities to take matters into their own hands and actually act upon their personal ideals. It sure feels better to have put necessary changes in motion yourself, rather than to have waited passively until the gov\u00adernment has done the job for you.\n\n \n\nWouter Koolmees <\/strong>is a member of Dutch parliament for D66.\n\n \n\nHeeft dit artikel uw interesse gewekt? Klik hier <\/a>voor meer info en abonnementen.\n\n\u2013 \u2013\n\nDit artikel verscheen in idee<\/em> nr. 6 2012: Trust in people\u2019s own power<\/a>, en is te vinden bij het onderwerp participatie<\/a>.<\/em>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-30068","archive","type-archive","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLiberal citizenship – Mr. Hans van Mierlo stichting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/d66.nl\/vanmierlostichting\/archive\/liberal-citizenship\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Liberal citizenship – Mr. Hans van Mierlo stichting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lees hier het pdf\u00a0van dit artikel. 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