Holy outrage and “Tavarish” Matiak

Maciej Maciak has no chance in this election. It is unbelievable, it looks bad, what it says doesn't even make sense, and it actually resembles a Russian propagandaist. but it's up to voters to decide to reject it, not "the costly ladies on TV."

Meanwhile, he's trying to do the opposite. If Maciaek is proven by a court of law to be spying or illegal practices in the campaign, he should be punished by the court, not by the discretion of the media group, that we thank him already.

In particular, the list of people who are “unworthy to invite” is rapidly expanding. Not only does Grzegorz Braun, who – as Korwin-Mikke erstwhile did – make scandalous methods, but besides Sławomir Mentzen, throw any stars to her today. And even if it wasn't Nawrocki himself, it was the full organization supporting him. Finally, Minister Domanski besides did so arbitrarily, cutting the second off from her due, according to the decision of the PKW, money.

I must admit, I was more amazed by the reaction of any right-wing publicists than by the liberals. Not due to the fact that they were more active, but due to the fact that the first ones don't surprise me anymore.

Presidential election 2025. We share values and money

For years, Polish defenders of democracy, tolerance and freedom of speech have wanted to "enhance" them by stigmatizing different people as enemies of these values, demanding bans and penalties. erstwhile you look at it closely, it always comes down to 1 thing: you simply gotta exclude people with different views. Or those who support forces that endanger their respective power systems.

And the most crucial thing is money. These can only be shared between those who "share certain values." That is why we have not been able to talk honestly, on equal terms, in Europe for years about climate, emigration, the function of states, nations and fresh history. It always starts with fighting any marginal radicals who say terrible things, and ends with hitting the mainstream opposition against the dominant narrative.

Yeah, we're in a peculiar time. We have a gigantic Russian threat, we are at the top of the list of enemies of the most aggressive state in the world, which at the same time has the largest arsenal of tactical atomic weapons. We have all right to be sensitive.

Only what will get us excluded from the debate – and even from the election race, as any would like – a marginal, unbelievable candidate? A candidate who would have disappeared in the background if not for this “holy outrage” that becomes spécialité de la maison (speciality of home – ed.) Polish political cuisine?

He'll give us the construction of his legend. This is simply a banned candidate who's got his mouth gagged. What a food for troll farms. By the way, isn't that where the various radicals and extremist candidates build their myths?

Putin Club

But there is even more danger. A lot more serious. And I am amazed that it is not seen either by those who are to be subject to the censorical urges of this power (for now at the regulatory level).

Because if in 1 form or another Maciej Maciak, Grzegorz Braun or anyone else cannot participate in the discussion or run, then this list will proceed to expand. In a minute it will turn out that due to the “talk of hatred”, objections of peculiar services or fiscal services (expressed in the form of a secret suggestion), individual cannot broadcast, compose or compete in elections. Romania is not that far from Poland.

Moreover, Putin is not so much a double-edged sword as a multi-edged sword. After all, present the writing page draws back to the camp Tusk the erstwhile warming, gestures of relationship and postsmolensk's "tows". And the government side of the writing page – relationship with Orban or ambivalent attitude towards Putin, presented by Trump. So, what, we do fair and exclude the full Law and Justice and the full Platform from public life?

When fighting Putin, it's worth not making us like him. While possibly those who are in power and associated arrangements and money, sometimes this "putiniada" is simply a silent dream. All the more convenient if the suppression of freedom of speech and democracy is explained by the conflict for these values.

Viktor Shinelik