Solidarity President Piotr Duda announced yesterday that his union will support farmers protesting across Poland.
We will organize protests together until our authorities start defending Poland’s interests and oppose European climate policies, which are against our interests, impoverish society and eliminate thousands of jobs.
— he wrote on the X platform (formerly Twitter).
Solidarity’s support for farmers was expected and completely logical. The largest and most important trade union in Poland, which unites Polish workers, supports farmers who are rising up against the green ideology that attacks not only their interests, but also their existence. They also rebel against the bureaucratic and political apparatus that defends this ideology at all costs and actually lives by it.
As sad as it may sound, it’s about the classic battle between a small, ordinary man and a camera that wants to swallow him up. At the same time, Polish farmers do not oppose Ukrainian farmers, which they constantly emphasize in their demands. They want to remain competitive and want their government to represent their interests, and not the demands of the Brussels bureaucracy.
How does the left-liberal salon of the Third Polish Republic treat the peasants’ struggle? Criticism, ridicule and sometimes open contempt.
GW and Rzeczpospolita write comments portraying farmers almost as agents of the Kremlin, because of a provocateur who placed a pro-Russian banner on a tractor. MPs Anna Maria Żukowska and Klaudia Jachira explain to the farmers how much good the Green Deal will bring them. At the same time, the feminist left of the Women’s Congress describes the closing of the border as a ‘barbaric’ act, and Magdalena Środa calls farmers in her social media contribution spoiled idlers who live on subsidies.
What does all this tell us?
The truth that most insightful analysts have been writing about for years has been confirmed. There is a large gap between left-liberal politics and the interests of the working and agricultural classes. The little guy who struggles doesn’t get their support. Their focus is on LGBT, liberal elites and the killing of the unborn. This is their struggle today and they have neither the time nor the will to join forces with people who are fighting for their existence.
Today, the interests of the little person are represented by those political forces that like to describe the liberal discourse with a supposedly compromising term: populists.
Source: wPolityce