Prof. Andrzej Nowak especially for wPolityce.pl: “Poland! Let’s defeat this evil.” “What to do? Take part in the vote”

‘The elections are a clash between Poland and PiS’ – this is what the opposition leader says today on the cover of the weekly magazine “Polityka”, founded by the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party (led by Gomułka). Does this slogan mean that at least a third of the voters who, according to polls, plan to vote for Law and Justice are not Poles? Including their families, this will probably amount to about 10 million people. Aren’t these all Poles? And only the opposition voters are Poles?

This slogan is broadcast and received with enthusiasm by the same people who were previously outraged when someone accused today’s opposition politicians of actions contrary to the interests of Poland and treated it as an attempt to undermine the right of some citizens of our country to participate in undermining Polishness. These are also the same people who applauded the insertion of the Polish flag in dog poop (to the audience of today’s main opposition television). Today they are Poles, and the non-Poles are the ones they must defeat once and for all. And what’s next? Lock up non-Poles in camps (re-education centers, perhaps therapeutic centers)? An interesting exclusion, but not the most far-reaching.

“PiS is bad.” This is the shortest formula of electoral opposition. Opposition supporters, who call themselves democratic, demonstrate under this slogan. Democracy is about the majority, about challenging divided opinions. The fight against evil is about everything: the victory of good.

On the new billboards of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (the conductor was the guest of honor of the opposition march on October 1) – a huge inscription: “Poland! Let’s defeat this evil.” Below it the slogan “We will win.” The last two letters – “MY” – are in the colors of the Polish flag, white and red. So it’s not just Poland versus non-Poles, but good Poland versus evil, or better said: GOOD versus EVIL.

This signal is reinforced by the opposition coalition’s new symbol: a red outline of a heart, empty inside. HEART versus EVIL.

They carry these empty hearts the same people, who two years earlier had furiously destroyed the same symbol, an identically drawn purple outline of a heart, only not empty inside, but filled with the image of an unborn child. At the time it was a symbol of evil. Women’s Strike regarded posters with this symbol as ‘pushy, cynical, playing on emotions’.

The empty heart, without the child, becomes a symbol that is not pushy or cynical, but only responds to good emotions. What emotions are these? We gather people with a heart, against us there are people without a heart. Bad people.

Such an opposition not only goes the furthest, but also allows you to omit any reference to the program, arguments or substantive accusations against the opponent.

This was not even the case under Stalin. Even when the poster “AK – the spit-stained dwarf of the reaction” appeared, there was a certain content in it, radically false and defamatory, but still embedded in a certain argument: the opponent represents the “reaction”, that is : the ‘localists’, ‘capitalists’. Such a statement can be rationally verified, accepted or rejected and corrected, even in one’s own mind.

However, when the world is simply divided into GOOD and EVIL, this is not possible. A bad person has no arguments, he cannot have them – because he is just bad. A good man does not need to justify anything in his actions – because he is simply a servant of good.

What must we do? Take part in the vote to defend yourself, as long as you can, against such division, against an order that destroys reason and our humanity.