So [I am reading](https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/01/pvv-manifesto-includes-de-islamisation-nexit-and-ban-on-dual-national-voting-rights/) that PVV (a nationalist party in the Netherlands) wants
> to "de-islamise"(?) the Netherlands [... in order to ..] return to a ‘country ... with old school Dutch coziness’.

I was interested in how they want to achieve this (apart from stopping the spread of some ideas in the country - but that alone does not bring back the coziness, right?), so I checked their manifesto to see what is their plan. Well, not much, the only relevant statement is this (translation mine, exclamation mark theirs)
> If you want to live according to Islam and Sharia, leave for a Muslim country!

They also want to establish a _Ministry of Immigration, Remigration and De-islamisation_ with some further undisclosed work agenda.

Now, I get it. I very well understand why many people are upset about immigration, changes of local culture, fear of losing one's identity and all that. Some of the stuff they put a finger on is sometimes a real worry to many people around me too. I get it.

What strikes me, however, is the psychology behind this half-baked proposal. Stopping spread of some ideas is one thing, and it's achievable in principle - let's ignore for a moment constitutionality/legality of that. Deportation of people is another thing and it entails some violence (because they won't go on their own, right? After all, the people PVV speaks about are mostly Dutch citizens, so where should they go?). So for this to work at all, the plan for the society is to perform some (undisclosed) acts of violence (certainly psychological, maybe even physical) and then, when the work is done and finished, feel good about oneself with "old-school Dutch coziness" by a warm family fireplace with a glass of Jenever in the hand.

Such a thing is indeed possible and the history of the last 100 years knows about individuals who had little moral qualms about such situations and felt cozy in the evening after the work was done.

To me, however, it seems that to accept such moral acrobatics in practice would require a lobotomy to a large part of the society.

In other words, this is not a viable path forward. It strikes me that the authors and followers of these ideas don't realize this - you just need to imagine how would that `coziness` feel. Not too cozy after all, I suspect...