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My thoughts about the Polish election.
I have no thoughts to share publicly.
Of course I have thoughts, but this blog is not the place for those thoughts.
This blog is dedicated to coverage of Bieganski, the Brute Polak stereotype. This blog, like my book of the same title, covers stereotypes of Poles and other Bohunks as they appear in Western culture.
The election per se has little to do with that. How the election is covered in the press does have something to do with that. When I have time, I address how Poland is often depicted as a backward country of wicked Catholics who aren't ready for the 21st century. In contrast to Poland, there is the modern Western left, with its salvific Christophobia and contempt for anyone who isn't a Woke millennial.
I haven't had time for that lately and so I haven't been posting that, but if you read the book and the blog and apply the templates therein to current events, you will get the idea.
I'm an American. I live in America. I speak English. During our last presidential election, I found both candidates so inexcusable that I threw my vote away and voted for someone who could never win. It was a protest vote. If Trump and Biden are the candidates in 2024, and I hope that they are not, I do not know what I will do. I think they both are unworthy of the presidency.
My thoughts about Trump and Biden extend to the wider right and left as they exist today. I think they both are so flawed as to be unworthy of a good person's vote.
For myself, I believe that the best route is to support institutions that advance causes I care about I donate to those causes.
Hoping for the best for Poland and the world, and whatever that best is, it's not going to come from the current political left or the political right. It's going to come from good people doing good things, which all of us can choose to do and be every day.
A major theme in this election has been the characterizing of PiS as a threat to democracy. Ironically, western "democracies" are anything but level playing fields. The mainstream press is mainly liberal, and forms public opinion in that direction. What's more, political correctness chills dissent. Leftists appoint left-wing judges that rule from the bench and enforce unpopular left-wing policies. Finally, leftists push massive immigration because that will skew the electorate in a left-wing direction.
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of "democracy" is that?
The government has had supporting media, both public and independent (Sieci, Gazeta Polska, Father Rydzyk's) or relatively neutral (Polsat). The liberal media are followed mostly by liberal minority, so their impact is small. Acording to some experts PiS lost mostly because it opposed abortion.
DeleteMany "Good people" in Poland are infected with hate, their language is like the one of primitive criminals. Professors, poets, actors, activists. I have linked here as an example words of Inga Iwasiów, but decided to remowe them. Many educated city people despise common Poles, who survived the war, Communism and wild capitalism. Many of the good people are financed by taxes paid by the derided common Poles.
ReplyDeleteWe must keep things in perspective. For the longest time, Polish media was foreign-owed, which tended to make it pro-EU and allergic to Polish patriotism. Although "neutral", it was liberal in practice. The hooey about PiS appointing "ideological" judges is ironic, because, in the past, judges themselves could appoint like-minded successors. Scandals and cronyism are no big deal, because past Polish governments had the same thing, and the media was silent about it. Finally, the EU effectively bought the election, because it withheld funding for Poland until Poland conforms to EU dictates.
ReplyDeleteAgain, it's not my job to comment on Poland's internal politics, but I know from interacting with Poles on social media that many Poles would not agree with the above statements about the election being bought, etc.
ReplyDeleteNot 'bought' but foreign media are specific for Poland, which other developed country allows them? The results are sometimes funny, Germany owned medium has published once an article about Xmas in Wehrmacht in Russia. US media and politicians support the opposition, new rulers. But the opposition is pro-German and anti-US. The policy failed in February 2022, now it returns. Federal Europe is an anti-US project, the USA will be replaced either by Russia or China.
DeleteThe EU used funding as a club against Poland's sovereignty. Donald Tusk openly proclaimed himself a messiah that would "fix" Poland's subservience to the EU, and thereby restore EU funding to Poland. No sooner had he been elected than he triumphantly proclaimed that he was going to Brussels to bring the EU money home. It is not even subtle.
ReplyDeleteIf this is not buying an election, than what is?
The results of the election in Poland have implications in Polish-Jewish relations. The EU intrusion into internal Polish affairs is strengthened, even in education. The European Union has always pushed a Holocaust curriculum that keeps Jewish suffering entirely separate from the sufferings of other peoples. This means that Polish children are forced to learn that the Holocaust was special, and qualitatively different from the sufferings of Poles.
ReplyDeleteThis is part of the power relationship that exists between the EU and Poland. Poland cannot effectively object. What's more, Poland is in no similar position to force its version of history unto other European nations.
Well...well...More of the same. It never ends.
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