“I believe PiS will come back soon because we haven’t learned much. Our elite still ostentatiously despises the simple, and what is worse, it is done by people I respect,” writes lawyer and lecturer at the University of Warsaw, Prof. Marcin Matczak on the X platform and in “Gazeta Wyborcza”. This time, among other things, it is about: on the issue of the parliamentary oath with the words “So help me God”, ridiculed by OKO.press journalist Piotr Pacewicz.
Marcin Matczak has long advocated that we should be accountable honestly, reliably and transparently for what PiS politicians have done wrong during their rule, but should not be guided by the desire for revenge and maintain respect for the voters of Law and Justice. After all, more than 7.5 million Poles voted for this formation.
It is these 7.5 million of our compatriots who for one reason or another have chosen PiS where Prof. draws attention to in his columns, interviews and social media posts. Marcin Matczak – the same one who expects tough settlements with his predecessors from the future government of Donald Tusk, which he expressed in an interview for OKO.Press.
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I will probably start writing a ‘Recaptured City Report’ to note how opposition people behave after the victory over PiS. The mood is euphoric and militant, there are proposals everywhere to pour concrete over this PiS, and those who supported a strong line against the communist regime in 1989 are demanding Nuremberg for Kaczyński.
– writes Marcin Matczak on the X platform, and more extensively – in “Gazeta Wyborcza”.
The lawyer ironizes the fact that many anonymous Internet users call him a ‘pisior’ or at best a ‘hidden PiS option’, because he argues that settlements should be legal and apply to leaders and politicians, and the voters should not meet.
People probably think that all those who hated the Third Polish Republic have emigrated, renounced their Polish citizenship and will never vote in our country again.
– judges.
The rest of the text shows that the ‘Kaczyński regime’, which the supporters of the new parliamentary majority like to shout about, must be really powerful, as its tentacles reach even liberal American sociologists.
Meanwhile, “Polityka” features an interview with Kim Scheppele, a Princeton professor who has learned to analyze new authoritarianisms, including Polish and Hungarian ones. He says you have to wonder why people voted for Kaczynski and Trump: “A lot of people felt disrespected by liberals. They believed that the authorities looked down on them, did not protect their interests and treated them unequally. This elevated Kaczyński and Trump. Their supporters must show respect and concern for their interests.” So it is also a hidden PiS option
– writes the lawyer.
“We didn’t learn much.”
Matczak then predicts that the attitude of the most vindictive supporters of the new parliamentary majority could lead to… an imminent return of PiS to power:
I believe PiS will come back soon because we haven’t learned much. Our elite still ostentatiously despise the simpletons, and what’s worse, it’s done by people I respect.
The lawyer draws attention to Piotr Pacewicz’s text in OKO.press about MPs who added the words “So help me God” to their oath during the opening session of the Sejm’s 10th term. Pacewicz, as Matczak notes, writes in a mocking tone and “inspects” parliamentarians who appeal to God.
For him, the phrase explicitly included in the Constitution of the Republic of Poland is “God’s spell,” and its addition is “the banishment of the formula.” Someone who uses it “strengthens the attitude that the Church can participate together with God in public life” and darkens “the cloud of Polish Catholicism hanging over society, with its patriarchal and conservative ethics”
– Matczak points out.
So we need to send someone from OKO.press to the White House and make Biden realize that when he says, “God bless America,” said Piotr Pacewicz, “it limits individual freedom, discriminates against social groups because of arbitrary assumptions, and it hinders openness to the threats and challenges that the 21st century brings!
– ironizes the lecturer of the Faculty of Law and Public Administration of the University of Warsaw.
He further refers to another author whom he appreciates: a lawyer, publicist, co-author of, among other things, books devoted to the problem of pedophilia in the church.
Considering the Biblical sheep as a symbol of stupidity is like considering that the Phoenix symbolizes burnout (because it burns), and the White Rabbit from “Alice in Wonderland” personifies greed (we know how quickly rabbits reproduce). It is weak, without meaning or context, but popular among the elites
– he emphasizes, adding that he means the same elites who admire one of the new parliamentarians.
The same ones who listen to teacher and MP Marcin Józefaciuk when he speaks in “Duży format” about his union with the energy of the world, healing with a candle in the ear and neo-paganism. And instead of saying anything about proverbs, the cloud of irrationality that darkens over Poland, or “hindering openness to the challenges of the 21st century”, the elite writes in the comments: “a wonderfully crazy man” and “this is refreshing!” And in mockery he replies, “So help him, goddesses and gods.”
– writes the lawyer.
“It will certainly be different for us.”
Finally, Matczak warns:
Do you believe that peace will come if you abuse the electorate and then quickly put PiS politicians in jail? This is what Erdogan’s opponents in Turkey thought in 1998 when they put him behind bars. And he was released after three years and took no more prisoners
But for us it will certainly be different
– ironizes.
Well, if it will be different in our country, it will be because PiS is quite far away from Erdogan.
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The only question is whether anyone in this desire for revenge against PiS actually goes to Prof. Matczak, or rather ‘strong together’, will demand that he ‘sit’ next to Zbigniew Ziobro in Free Poland, unless he retracts everything he wrote after the elections.
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Source: wPolityce