Polish Eye

"Maybe the EU is not perfect, but what choice do we have?", this conviction makes a staggering career in Poland today. Repeated with sighing, with resignation, sometimes with a sense of superior wisdom. Like it was the last rational argument in the discussion. Problem is, it's not an argument. It is simply a surrender dressed in reason.

Because what precisely does it mean? That if something is flawed, expensive, increasingly undemocratic and little reformable, should we halt talking about it? That the absence of an "easy exit" means consent to all abuse? This is the logic of a marriage, in which 1 side says, “it can beat and scream, but where will I go?”

The European Union is not a religion or destiny enshrined in the stars. It is simply a political construct that either serves associate States or starts to service itself. And this is precisely where we are. EU criticism does not mean immediate "Polexitu", nor does government criticism mean a desire to burn the state. But in Poland for any reason people were told that there were only 2 options: unconditional acceptance or disaster.

This conviction — “what is the way out” — is an elite’s favourite tool. due to the fact that he's closing the discussion. He takes the right to set conditions. It makes a citizen a "greater good" hostage that no 1 defines anymore. And since there's no way out, there's no point in opposing, negotiating, reforming. Just adjust.

Only past teaches the exact opposite. Any structure you can't criticize starts to break faster. all power that hears only “no difficulty, no alternative”, yet acknowledges that the alternate is... even more of the same power.

Poland is not faced with the question today: "Is it coming out of the EU?". It is faced with a much more serious question: whether it is inactive possible to say no in the EU or just "yes, of course, go ahead". due to the fact that if the only answer to the centralization of power, the circumventing of veto, the creative accounting of democracy and the Euro-price abuses is to decision the arms, then the problem is deeper than the Union itself.

There's always a way out. Sometimes it's renegotiation. Sometimes it's hard to object. Sometimes building a coalition of states that think alike. And sometimes you just refuse to pretend everything's okay.

The worst that can happen to the European Union is not rebellion. It's a resignation. The silent consent of people who no longer believe, but are inactive afraid. due to the fact that empires don't fall apart erstwhile individual criticizes them. They fall apart erstwhile everyone says, "Well... what's the option?"

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