I am appalled by the PiS party in Poland and those who still support them.
Shame on you. I'm not alone, millions of people in Poland have been protesting in the streets since PiS came to power in 2015. The protests don't seem to be working though. PiS is taking over the country, breaking or bending the law as they go. I don't know what more can be done. PiS clearly does not care about the people. They think we are protesting because we have been lied to, or that we were improperly benefitting from the previous - democratic system, which they call "post-communist". They say they are bringing democracy. They really believe we are all stupid, mafia, traitors, communists or thieves.
The democratic Poland is being destroyed by PiS. Since they came to power in 2015, a new, much worse, Poland is being born. Poland where the rights of women and minorities are not protected, where publicly funded television (TVP) is spewing disgusting
propaganda, where football hooligans and nationalists are treated as patriots, where top government officials mix religion and politics and try to introduce laws to please religious zealots, where insinuations about the Smolensk plane crash are celebrated every month in the middle of Warsaw with thousands of policemen protecting PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński and his "we're getting closer to truth" idiocy.
PiS has done some
good too. That's why they still have support of about 37% of people in polls. Giving every family 500 PLN every month for the second and subsequent children, and poor families also for the first child, lowered poverty in Poland. That's a good thing. It is being paid by increasing public debt though, so it may not be sustainable. Increasing the minimum wage was a good thing too. That's it.
There are many more things that they broke. The most important being the trust in the rule of law. Now, they are
taking control of the courts system, which in democratic countries are independent from political influence. Afterwards, they will have all state-level power in their hands: legislative, executive, judiciary. Legally, nothing will be able to stop them from de-legalising parties opposed to them, nothing will be able to stop them from falsifying elections - we, the majority of the people, are stupid in their mind, so they will be doing it for our good, of course.
Kaczyński called us - that's those who don't agree with him, on camera: communists, thieves, gestapo collaborators, the worse kind, low life, and just now the
killers of his brother. This man is clearly full of hatred. Shame on those who support him and do his bidding: Szydło, Duda, Waszczykowski, Kamiński, Ziobro, Kurski, Piotrowicz, Kempa and many others.
PiS came to power after a
wire tapping scandal in 2014, when Marek Falenta - a businessman selling Russian coal in Poland, with debts to a Russian company connected to Putin (*) ordered recording of private conversations of PO and PSL politicians. The recordings were made in restaurants, by waiters. PO and PSL were a governing coalition at that time. The tapes were leaked during an election campaign. There was nothing that was proved criminal in the tapes, but there were a few things that were used by PiS to show the arrogance of the PO/PSL government and to support their campaign slogans "Poland is in ruins", and "good change". Three years later, the arrogance of PiS government shown publicly is a hundred times bigger. What they say privately we don't know, nobody taped their conversations.
PiS got only
37.6% of votes in the 2015 elections to Sejm (lower chamber of the Parliament), and 40% in Senate, but thanks to the preference for the biggest parties, it has 51% of seats in Sejm and 61% in Senate. The voter participation was about 50%.
* Roman Giertych about PiS and Russia connections:
The art of misinformation
