If it actually comes to the elections in Poland in six months, our countrymen will be able to decide again who will regulation them and how. That's at least what it looks like in theory. However, practice shows that elections do not change anything, due to the fact that otherwise they would not be held.
Therefore, it is crucial to consider whether it is right to make hope that even by making a immense change, i.e. by leading to the support of even a 15% niche party, we would have on the table a completely different layout of cards or just an illusion of the anticipation of strategy changes.
Well, the elites of power, preserved for more than 30 years, legitimized in a way initially undisclosed by the earlier nomenclature, formed an full strategy of connections and relationships among themselves. These conditions find the formation of the political strategy in which we live. It will not be much exaggeration if we consider this constellation as a closed strategy or a kind of order. All disagreements between parties are made of theatrical ground and are based on ideological foundations alternatively than purely logical. Furthermore, being in the alleged opposition does not make it possible that members of the “adversaries” organization do not actually participate in the exercise of power or are not beneficiaries of the system. So no 1 will cut off anyone's head (paraphrased by vulgar Polish currants).
The circulation of elites due to election processes is highly apparent, while looking at the Polish courtyard, even unwanted! Poles love to see the same faces, to be hurt inactive by the same people according to the rule "the rapist usually comes from the nearest vicinity of the victim". In fact, all power will gladly share with the people the scraps of resources, most frequently in the form of a return of any of the taxes paid, i.e. in the form of social policy.
If we look at this coin from all sides, our eyes open and we realize that we live in a kind of democracy. The Polish political strategy exhausts the defining features of this system, i.e. only the façade of elements of democracy hide corruption at higher levels of the state apparatus, limited freedom of the media, a advanced degree of mobilisation of safety services in the section of worldview hygiene of society (so they deal with not what they were set up for), lability, even reactiveness in decision-making by elites, obstruction of activities of non-parliamentary political parties and organizations etc.
In specified circumstances, citizens cannot deny that they have a regular choice that elections take place (it is nothing that but civilised standards) that they see (apparently) anti-systemic social activists or politicians in mass media or that they do not have access to various benefits (it does not harm the mediocre quality). The taxation strategy resembles the plundering of indigenous people from the remnants of its property, under the pretext of social justice, and the political line is modified according to the current peculiar needs of political elite members.
Participation in the division of spoils, e.g. by receiving an intrepid position in a state-owned company, a non-trading contract win or a regulatory privilege of its own firm powerfully tempts people and encourages them to engage in the socio-political life of the country. It is no different in the case of candidates of parties called "anti-systemic", youtubers with political aspirations, etc. This is not due to the fact that these people are fundamentally evil. The process of assimilation into the strategy is natural and consistent with the anatomy of the human brain. Indeed, there are Donkichotsky figures in politics, rebels who are very hard to bribe, so they are made into a kind of exotic and tv joke. However, this does not change the fact that they are individuals, condemned to ostracism and even mockery.
Such an image may be pessimistic, but in fact realistic. It should be understood, therefore, that no substance what option we choose these 10-15% support, it will be ruthlessly absorbed by the constellation, which was even cemented for decades of its duration and will not decision a millimeter. Otherwise, specified disobedient people will be dealt with by the members of the closed strategy themselves, utilizing already the dirtiest means, or bringing to light (or alternatively flashes) compromising materials on disobedient and naive. No 1 will be harmed in the name of the rule “it is not sin but shame.”
This situation is not very different from that which we will find in another countries, even those which, according to standards, are at the very top of the list of standards of liberal-democratic regulation of law. We can only be glad that we are not yet any theocracy (contrary to which we are assured by the participants of the Women's Strike) or a civilian war-torn creature of the character of Poland from the period of the territory breakdown.
Since the elections themselves, the prospects of Ukrainian associations, organizations and parties, which clearly, even ostentatiously push for parliament, should be more interesting. The Polish government did not decision forward after giving PESELi to Ukrainian immigrants this 1 step forward, but it can be assumed that everything ahead. At that time, changes on the Polish political scene would look highly interesting, and the procedure to introduce Ukrainian political formations would bear the characteristics of a kind of individual union (if we consider that the king's body is indeed phantom and has the power to dispel). Indeed, we do not have much influence on the rest, for even protests and demonstrations are foreseen in advance in this game, along with ways to silence them without utilizing sharp ammunition. Poles are cowardly anyway, trembling at the voice of their owner.
Sylvia Gorlicka
Think Poland, No. 19-20 (7-14.05.20123)
