Assessing the election results, PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński draws attention to the “huge offensive of vulgarity”, which saw Law and Justice clash in the recently concluded campaign. Of course, these processes have already started before.
This vulgarity emerged not only in the statements of various people who somehow participate in public life, but also function daily in private, but also in the statements of politicians and eventually became a slogan. These eight stars have become a slogan and actually the answer to all questions from KO supporters..
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It was indeed this vulgarity, these eight stars, but not only that, that most strongly bonded the opposition together.. She was the most important, she symbolized hatred. There are analysts who claim that Law and Justice lost because they could not find an answer to this wave.
Maybe the answer couldn’t be found. If PiS stood its ground and spread only positive messages, it could create room for an even bigger wave, as in 2007, which is an immediate victory for the Platform. Tusk continually created a spiral of hatred and used the rhetoric of moral panic. Many opposition media acted similarly. Pretending nothing happens and avoiding a collision would not bring big profits to PiS. It is worth recalling the “program hive”, i.e. an event after which PiS was almost ridiculed. At that moment, PiS’s success seemed particularly remote.
However, the question arises: why could the wave of vulgarity and hatred overshadow the economic and social interests of such large social groups? Why did ideological issues, the distribution of apparent prestige and the desire to be part of the socially dominant ‘herd’ appear to be more important? A mechanism known from other countries has certainly worked: groups that have been economically elevated to the level of the middle class do not show gratitude, but look for new offers. They seek confirmation of their new status and often choose to reject the very force whose policies have propelled them forward.
The second factor is also important: Poland’s economic success. This is why, although almost everyone talked about the economy during the campaign, comic factors and stimuli played a marginal role in it. The success of recent years has, on the one hand, desensitized Poles to this issue, washing away some of the PiS foundations, and on the other hand, it has pushed social expectations to absurdity. Grotesque situations arose: it was feared that the village would turn away from Law and Justice because the corn price would be lower this year, or because raspberry growers were dissatisfied. After all that the United Right governments have done for the countryside! It gave the impression of a kind of madness in which the basic criteria for judging power and reality were lost.
It is a fact that large social groups have voted against their fundamental interests. The fact is that millions of Poles have underestimated the best government of our third independence. And all this will be heard soon. The contrast will be very clear. Unfortunately also very painful.
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Source: wPolityce