Donald Tusk’s government cannot boast of economic indicators better than those under PiS. Let’s forget about growing prosperity. The lean years are coming and the authorities don’t seem to care.
The only thing Donald Tusk and his team brag about are settlements with their main political rival. There are no positive messages. Even the promises have disappeared. Only the games survive, and even in a gloomy and hateful version. Civic Platform’s official social media profile boasts of mass layoffs at Orlen, the largest Polish company.
Someone would say it’s risky, because boasting about putting people out of work – in a country where the trauma of mass unemployment is still in the public consciousness – can create negative feelings towards the person who fires them, and not towards those who are fired. Especially since Tusk’s team has nothing to brag about when it comes to Orlen’s financial situation and fuel prices in general.
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Besides, it’s not just about Orlen. The current government has nothing good to communicate about any aspect of economic life and the well-being of society. There was a brief moment when Donald Tusk’s government tried to take credit for suppressing inflation. However, he quickly gave up, which was probably no coincidence. It was probably such a brutal usurpation that it was counter-effective in terms of propaganda.
Today we are at the stage where almost everyone can come to terms with it. The opposition accuses the government of being a failure. And the authorities don’t even fight it. But it’s not like she capitulated. And it is not as if the right can wait until social discontent itself brings it back to power.
The area around Tusk
Because just because Donald Tusk’s entourage consists largely of idiots who brag about firing people from their jobs doesn’t mean he is one himself. Tusk changed the rules of the game. He will not try to convince Poles that they will live a better life and that he will provide it for them. He will claim that thanks to him their lives will not be much worse. Yes, it’s bad, prices are going up, fees are going up, but when Tusk is gone there will be chaos. This will be the message.
He has the tools for this. Domination of the media, support of the elites, and finally the entire coercive apparatus, led by the public prosecutor’s office and pacified courts. Bitter, tired of life and increasingly dominant, Tusk does not want to convince the Poles at all. He doesn’t try to be nice or be seen as a nice person – which he cared deeply about during the years 2007-2014. Now he will intimidate people, order the Public Prosecution Service to make arrests and order the courts to extend them. Fueling polarization will further confuse public opinion. Actually it no longer exists. Today in Poland there is no such thing as public opinion. There are only bubbles that group individual social groups plus an aggressive and fanatical base of 20 percent of the main ruling party.
Tusk will divide and conquer. He pitted one social group against another. He has years of experience in this. And society? If traditional democratic mechanisms continue to function, society has a chance to stop and correct this. If these mechanisms continue to work…
Source: wPolityce