According to Donald Tusk, the PiS camp is basically a pathology. The whole camp: both voters and politicians.
The kings of life are they who they drink, they beat their children, they beat women, and they haven’t disgraced themselves with work for many, many years. A dreamed political clientele for power, which itself has a similar mindset to this clientele –
— this is what it looks like according to the leader of the Platform. Not like his own camp. He has a thought. Political thought. KO MP Witold Zembaczyński said it very juicy, when TVP Opole asked him why he decorated his car with eight stars:
Each of my vehicles has an inscription “Eat PiS”. This is the motto of my political thinking and I identify with it 100 percent.
So maybe the Platform doesn’t have a program, but it does have a “political idea”. Implemented really consistently. What does it mean for Poland if the opposition wins? Certainly repression against political opponents. But what else? We do not know. And we can’t know. The Platform itself probably doesn’t know either, because it is after all a party of “executors”not used to thinking. She will do what she has to do.
This is striking: a party that once aspired to be a monoparty, that wants to be considered the main modernizing force in Poland, today does not even pretend to operate on a programmatic basis, conceptual. What should be a proposal is not a coherent concept of Poland’s development, but written on the knee, under the dictation of PR specialists, and in the rhythm of weeks, not months or years. Once to the left, once to the right, once “with love”, in a moment with a flail. All in all a cabaret, no thought, programming or conceptual work.
The platform wants to bring Law and Justice to the same level. To the threshing level. He is as people described by Tusk (basically the electorate of PO rather than PiS), and he believes he will win in such a beating. He rightly believes because it actually has fewer brakes. Actually there aren’t.
However, Jarosław Kaczyński’s party does not make this mistake. It responds to aggression, rudeness and brutality with a program convention on a scale not seen for a long time. It corresponds to the freshness one would expect from an opposition party rather than a ruling party for almost eight years. It responds with energy that can take away the competitive will to fight.
Nothing has changed since 2010-2015 when it was PiS has acquired a de facto monopoly on serious thinking about Poland. Around, alas, a desert.
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Source: wPolityce