Monday afternoon is simply a extremist review of my biography, my situation and, I fear very much, the capabilities of Polish citizens. erstwhile I compose this, almost 60% of the votes from the territory where I ran for the Sejm election were counted. I got those 909. Not much above the promil. From 10th place, I'm likely to fall to 14th position. The consequence characteristic of a twenty-something-year-old bicycle activist with respective projects of performance promoting this activity of murals in the city.
Youth activist score
In the beginning of the campaign, I started the “let's count” action. She seemed honest to me. She responded to this basic emotion associated with wasted voices at the time, fear of falling all e.g. left-wing list under the electoral threshold, with the temptation to vote on the strongest, eagerly supporting Tusk in the plebiscite against Kaczyński, etc. I proposed to check the support even before the vote and on the basis of the number of signatures collected to measure the situation and its own "choice". This besides addressed the problem of an "unchoiceable idealist" which may be worth supporting with a pat on the back and with the words of appreciation for the so-far "fight", but not with a vote in the election, due to the fact that this 1 is reserved for a "serious policy". So for people by definition (also by my definition) completely different from me.
I threw it out. Data from my website showed that about 2.5 1000 people visited her. all tenth day, she signed. The promotion I was hoping for, which was to guarantee that the offer reached respective 100 1000 readers of electoral and political content in the media on the Internet, proved impossible. At the time, I thought the signatures couldn't be collected, due to the fact that there's no way to find out in advance about the voter's fundraiser. At the same time, however, respective tens of thousands of people saw the request to visit this page in the video on YouTube channel. So the fact was most likely simply that almost nobody wanted to visit the site of any independent, "citizen candidate". The mediocre amount of signatures was telling the fact — which only seemed incredible to me...
Well, a fewer another things I couldn't do. I was virtually absent from any mainstream media, which most likely reduced my chances the most. But I did what I could and did what I could. I most likely did more than 4 years ago erstwhile I got 85 720 votes, which is 15%. In order to enter the Sejm alone in this election, and surely — from any list — I needed 4.5%. I got a 0.11... No substance what, this consequence disqualifies. I'm afraid it's permanent.
Chimera
For the last 8 years, I have been active among people who have wanted to halt the nightmare of the unlawful and destructive humanities of the Law and Justice Government. I wanted that, too. However, knowing from the beginning that the 2015 crisis did not come from heaven, that it had its real roots in the weakness of democracy before the Law and Justice took over with a large fluke, but then, in subsequent elections, it confirmed the mandate to destruct everything and everyone, thereby awakening the widespread retaliatory retaliation of the crowds of its supporters. I never believed in Polish Majdan, any early election or another miracle that would abruptly origin the problem to disappear.
I have tried to show that actual democracy is built erstwhile respect for principles and social aspirations win to force upon tyranny, not erstwhile the ruler is gracious. That, for example, women's rights will then be permanent erstwhile they can be forced into an autocratic misogynist government, not erstwhile the power is taken over by tolerant liberals and women's rights will be given a decree which another wave of right-wing populism will simply abolish, as in Polish past has happened more than once.
The full activity of Polish citizens was to supply proof that this could be done. Immediately at the start, we forced Kaczyński to enter into an agreement recognising our right to stand in front of him during the Smolensk month. We did so as a group of dozens of people — then completely isolated among the dominant CODE. The agreement was, of course, unstable. The PiS has launched a full parliamentary device against our tiny group to ban the demonstration of undesirables. We boycotted the bill consistently for years — and most of that time completely alone — by making the ban no longer effective and no longer respected. During these years, we have stood before the courts countless times and have shown that the standard has become that the judgments issued by them against written laws, straight on the basis of constitutions and global conventions. We thus built the opposition of independent judges. In our fight for the regulation of law, we have shown that social opposition — not political resistance, not the vote bill in the Sejm — is able to halt the strategy from breaking down.
The thought of forcing force or opposition on all social power to carry out crucial demands, summarizes our thinking, the way we act and the imagination of the country we want. With this idea, I ran for this election. Proving that only this can be achieved and the regulation of law, and the profound improvement of the system, and the rights of women, and all another demands of the large protest movement in which we participated and which active specified large social emotions, driving out into the streets over the years uncounted crowds of engaged, decent people. That in no another way will these demands be realized. And for this reason, the triumph of the Democrats will prove to be impermanent.
Each election thwarted the thought of a society imposing rules of play on its rulers and aspiring to rule. A society that sets limits on power. We were expected to vote now, not demand. To vote for those who will be gracious to our demands... Well, we wanted to win the PiS in this election, too. So we voted knowing that it was not about our demands that we were asking for our votes. We abandoned our chimeric dreams for triumph even erstwhile we knew well that it was not even about them and that it would not be possible. Now it was possible and it became a fact. Finally. The PiS is losing power.
But the thought of social activity went up in smoke the bigger. I feel like counting the bruises of those 8 years and saying I got a vote for each one. For all jump through police railings, for all ground treatment, for all severed tendon, for all hr in the boiler, for all lawsuit. Martyrological patos? I never complained. I made my own decisions for everything, without much trouble. But this is the balance sheet. As many voices as I have bruises.
Ticks
We won. fortunate for us, it's very clear. The fall of the Law and Justice and our advantage reversed electoral behaviour and mechanisms. My own predictions of another defeat failed and even a certain failure in the legislature as a consequence of the crackdown of the votes. Now it's the Law and Justice that's losing on him, not us. The scale of triumph was far beyond anything I expected.
This win is priceless. It stops a disaster that would be hard to imagine. But no of our large demands will be fulfilled. There will be no settlement of the perpetrators of the constitutional assassination. We can't get the TVP back due to the fact that Duda will veto the essential changes to the bill. The Dutch will behave good as she did on election night. We can't liberalize an abortion. We will not improvement the system, the political organization system, the election rules, the tripartition of power — that is what no 1 wants. Imposibilism will gain fresh power. The populists will not vanish — even if the Law and Justice fall apart. We will defend the fresh power precisely as we have accepted all compromises to win the election. Who knows — we may see again in the Sejm all applauding “the defenders of borders.” possibly we can clap ourselves.
We're stuck in the ticks of bipolar politics.
Mandate
From now on it will be open and foolish insolence to exhort anyone about all this. With my somewhat over a 1000 votes after counting the results. With a ray of support. The margin of those who anticipate change is greater. It can scope 30% of voters. But they alternatively want new, unused faces. Like the supporters of Palikot, Kukiza, Petru, Biedronia, Holownia, Confederacy. To a large degree like PiS supporters in 2015. The strategy established in the debate and imposed by the rulers along with the constitution wants no one. And he won't. 8 years of Law and Justice didn't teach anyone anything.
The thought of the 3rd Chamber is unknown and exotic in Poland. That's understandable. It's democratic news. However, the thought of setting ruling boundaries and rules should be known from a distant past. This is the basis of parliamentaryism, older than the customized of elected authorities. Known in Antique. In the Venetian Republic practiced since the 6th century, in England since the 13th century, in Poland since XVI. But erstwhile we go to power, it doesn't interest anyone. We will be amazed again by the ease with which the fresh normality will fall apart erstwhile another wave of populism comes, and it will definitely come. Any book you read about it is easy to find out.
Polish citizens are a promilator. It's people willing to stand alone against everything. Yes. We besides showed that. But possibly it's wise to let others worry. In the end, the winners of the Democrats may turn out to be large and effective reformers. Against my judgement and ours. possibly prosecutors will halt chasing abortions, possibly doctors will dare, possibly aid will halt being punished. besides the 1 on the border. possibly it'll be more bearable. I'm certain he will be. possibly there'll be individual who can think of permanent basis. possibly our time just passed.
My promotion of support, although it takes distant my mandate to justice politicians, convinces me at the same time that the request for this reasoning characteristic of us has not passed. That there are no reformers. But I deficiency the insolence to claim that everyone around me is drunk and I'm the only 1 sober. It is appropriate to consider that these listed bruises, boilers, processes — all of this happened to me erstwhile I pursued Chimera for 8 years. I should be ashamed of that — I am a large boy. Well, I'm not ashamed. So what?
