The elites of the Republic of the Round Table were divided. When Newsweek, Tygodnik “Nie” and TVN throw manure at John Paul II’s biography, “Gazeta Wyborcza,” Tomasz Lis and Roman Giertych view the saint’s attack as a provocation from PiS. It is known – moving Polish shrines is a risky business, because the nation will wake up, consolidate and chase the iconoclasts. In the interview Lis held with Giertych on his channel, a discreet arrangement was made in which the former nationalist said it was Archbishop Jędraszewski’s inspiration that the pope was hit to cause the opposite effect, namely his universal defense. The editor-in-chief repeats this statement slowly and with feigned surprise so that the viewers remember it. Thus, part of the anti-PiS camp split from the rest of the Hunweibins of the Third Republic, fearing that the United Right would win a third term in defense of the national identity symbolized by John Paul II.
Meanwhile, the anti-PiS left is not letting go of the reins in its hallowed onslaught against the Vatican. Remove the pope’s monuments, rename the streets, name schoolgoers, make Overbekka sacred, reward TVNu’s reporting and make the eSBec informants the most credible witnesses in history.
The strategy is basically the same and consists of washing out Poland’s cultural code based on evidence sucked from the fingerbut the tactics of the two factions differ. Some want to cut our identity like salami, piece by piece, so as not to arouse protests, dissolve us evolutionarily in the European liquid, while others want to hit this salami with a hammer so that it immediately splatters.
Party concrete and democratic opposition
The roots of both approaches originate in the attitude of the People’s Republic of Poland towards Poland. Some – the mainstream led by Bierut, Jaruzelski or Urban – wanted to violently depolonize and de-Catholicize. Of course, then they had a repressive device at their disposal and their grandchildren only have the mass media, but the essence of the method is the same: through shock, disgust, paralysis of the defenders of values, to inculcate once and for all an aversion to the things most sacred to us.
The latter want to act more subtly – just as Michnik and Kuroń have been courting the Catholic Church since the 1970s, looking for dialogue, looking for common elements, to gradually colonize Catholics and patriots, discreetly washing away from them the most important content , so today Polish values should not be directly attacked.
So we have a real extension of the old division – the concrete party PZPR (Urban) wanted hard and resolutely, and the democratic opposition (Michnik, Kuroń) wanted to govern Poland with the participation of a part of society.
Urbanoids and Michniks
The extent to which the current division is licensed has yet to be decided. Are such Michnik, Lis and Giertych really negative towards the creators of the anti-papal campaign or have they simply taken on the role of “good policeman”? When the Urbanoids will beat us with blunt attacks, the Michniks will tenderly say: “we understand your sympathy for the Pope, come to us”.
There is another group in this dispute about Poland. These are the Wojtyla people – and they must now count themselves precisely and resolutely.
Source: wPolityce