Sitting with my household on the idyllic Italian coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea 141 km south of Naples, counting along the coast, I can't give any reasonable answer to the question why I actually live in Poland, not even here. I can't give you any rational reason, but I'll definitely come back from Italian land. Although I know what I will find in Poland and I have no illusions.
In Italy, of course, Forza Italia, the Italian Brothers and another inventions match the PiS, ONR, Confederacy, and it is not as idyllic as it seems to the tourist. These 141 km are besides not only and not even above all charming views of sea azure. Driving along this part of the western Italian coast is primarily a road through the traditionally mediocre regions of the South, late dramatically affected by Covid and besides with the appearance of sometimes depressing like an old, well-known way from Warsaw to Minsk Mazowiecki, looking like a bazaar set on wild. Honestly I hated this way (today it is replaced by a road that besides does not belong to charming ones), always choosing a slower, hollow road that at least led through a beautiful forest. The hr of the road, especially in the spring, gives remainder even after 3 days at work without interruption (which in the old days happened to me often, due to the fact that “hot water” can cost a lot). We don't know which alternate routes here, we don't know which passages to avoid.
But we're delighted anyway. South Italy, even in its uglier appearances, not only charms with exoticism, which makes everything bearable, but the unattended observer makes the details more delicate to the locals in their usual surroundings. Or it causes that under a black exterior for us there is no prose, which can be unpleasant and for the natives it does not vanish as for me with an exotic vacation.
Literally all step of the way, we can see an incredible from the Polish point of view and a delightful continuity of history. Not only in buildings that have been continuously inhabited since the mediate Ages sometimes by the same families, but besides in the twisted trunks of olive trees that are even older remember Greek and Minoan times. From a human perspective, 1 can think of them as increasing here almost outside of past – that they were already here erstwhile the time began. The architecture here is always beautiful, likewise untouched by past and its various iron curtains, which moved along human ridges and human habitats, destroying everything irretrievably among the grumpy roar of large words on the importance of the bronze of monuments. Here we can see only the slow action of the gracious air walls, fresh structures blending into the scenery in consequence to fresh needs that were never peculiarly large and did not origin violent changes. Fawele, yes, they are here, but they look different, due to the fact that everything that people request was built here well over a 1000 years ago, and no corrugated roof or etherite will spoil it. In this part of the world, the name ethernite is manifestly absurd, and even if it does disfigure the landscape, it is someway unscrupulous, since at first glance it is only a superficial raid, contrary to the name impermanent, it will vanish just as rapidly as it appeared on the scale of time on which the neolit can be seen erstwhile man looks over his shoulder. Nature is managed with the same moderation due to the fact that it gives everything in a stunning excess. It's all there. And he can survive.
Yes, bad luck has happened here, and it inactive happens a lot. This part of the coast does not know the tragedy of mass migration across the sea with their many thousands of victims. I do not know if the Italians have like the Chinese – whether they know that everything is passing away, and the century is an unnoticeable and unnoticeable episode. I'm just here for a while, I get the impression myself. But why do I return to Poland for sure, although – I admit – we look at the prices of real property here sometimes, wondering what we could afford in return for what we have in Poland? And why even sitting here I read predictablely uninteresting Polish newspapers? After all, most of the texts I could compose myself, good knowing in advance what anyone would write. Before reading, I know that news from Poland will make a powerless, so completely futile frustration, at most threatening with depression, from which Italian holidays are expected to cure us. Then why?
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I read in the Politics of Mariusz Janicki – the prom in the title of his text suggests, although Janicki did not compose that the choices that we have been separated from for little than 100 days will be the exam of maturity for us. "Pragmatism to Pain" is simply a word from his text. It announces a "clean method alliance and government" with the Confederation. Pragmatism is simply a measurement of maturity. Sure. But on the occasion of the electoral campaigns, the essential pain of all pragmatism becomes a corporate sign of today's Polish intelligent, consistently affirming the inactive further bottom of the smallness of Polish democratic politics. The intellectuals in the media explain to the simple people the real conditions of their policy alternatively than showing politicians the conditions under which their policies will be accepted by the simple people. I remember my own conversations with the media. Almost no of them understood what I was talking about. Well, I didn't talk to Janicki.
It is not just the text, therefore. The likes are everywhere, not just in Politics. erstwhile you think about it, this supposedly essential pain of pragmatism as small as shows the scale of the collapse of intelligence. I read about the painful pragmatism of mature politics – 1 that accepts necessity and does not effort to measurement them – sitting in an olive grove where any trees are surely over 500 years old. Is something essential for olives? I wonder what that is, too the sun and the water? The alliance that Janicki tames with the Confederate, which must be accepted in the name of pragmatism, is little awesome under these circumstances.
But we don't have groves that will last as always. Nor the good created here continuously for thousands of years, which may be utilized for thousands more. Against the evil that people in this part of the planet know as well as we do in ours. The domestication of Fascism in Poland is accompanied by the demolition of everything that we have built with the burden – today, not after the electoral disaster. Poland and Italy do not disagree in the quality of politics (well, possibly a small bit) or in social condition. It's just the ratios here are the opposite. The ugly favelas in Italy are barely a raid on the eternally beautiful civilization, as well as equally ugly gold-plated yachts of Russian oligarchs, which from here did not vanish due to Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza. We've been raided by civilization. Fascism in Italy has been invented, it inactive exists here, and it's turning to power again. But Italians have eternal groves and civilization older than anything I can imagine. To the north of here, the Venetian Republic lasted eleven centuries, the longest in history, and the 3 divisions of power would be considered absurdly primitive and inadequate. Italian intelligence of fascism does not tame and does not explain necessity. In Poland, we will stay with the ugly faces of the politicians we have, due to the fact that “these are the conditions and there will be no others”. no of the wise men of “political realism” have any thought what to say erstwhile asked why there would actually be “others”. Sometimes they talk about a communicative that they think confirms this – due to the fact that we have never seen anything like it. Ignorants talking about stories in ruins that they don't bother to realize in a planet that they don't want and can't even realize or see. But due to the fact that that's what they're talking about, apart from the terrible realities, we'll have nothing else.
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From the town where we shop, to the home where we live, the road leads through the village of Pioppi built in the mediate Ages. The road becomes peculiarly tight here and stands here the sign "roadworks". Without a pole, right on the rocks, based on a wall. Roadworks were marked here due to a wall from which respective stones fell. It's fresh construction for a local standard. It's like the 18th century. The repair may take about 200 years, due to the fact that here the structures do not change faster. I'm passing by this sign and I think that Janicki's text, Tusk's recording about immigrants and tame fascism most likely deserves a contact of arms. most likely not worth telling Janicki or others what pragmatism truly is. However, I will compose about it for myself and for those fewer like-minded, whom I have the chance to reach. due to the fact that even though I shrug my arms, I will spend the remainder of my life in Poland and it is my conscious choice and although I cannot explain it, I insisted: I will not be thrown out.
So if it is actual that after the election, the 1 who deals with the Confederacy will regulation – due to the fact that “these are the terms”, then there are a fewer things. All can be brought to fresh spots of Tusk on immigration, referendum on relocations, barrier on the Belarusian border (and characteristic of these comments is to avoid mentions of the mortal victims of the Border Guard).
"Tusk's speech was not peculiarly empathic," Janicki writes. "Tusk took the hazard of being exposed especially to left-wing commentators, playing hard, possibly not to all taste". No, there's no risk.
Janicki himself will forgive Tusk for any specified “tactic”. And with him, most opposition voters. No expense will be borne by Tusk. Playing on the same resensitism on which he played and inactive plays Kaczyński, Tusk should give all intelligent individual reason to protest or to fear. Janicki, too. But no – Janicki explains why the scandalous place of the Democratic leader is an expression of his tactical genius. And if any of the readers of the Politics needed the text of Janicki for anything, then possibly they needed it, those whose memory of fresh outrage with the inhuman policy of the PiS on the Belarusian border combined with not the first message of the leader of the anti-script opposition, who affirms this policy. Readers do not request analyses showing Tusk's genius – they are convinced of this genius anyway. Yeah, they like to read that they're right. If there's anything they need, it's just helping them destruct a dissonance that's troublesome for a fewer of them. due to the fact that indeed, as Janicki pointed out, most likely looking at his own sense of taste, these are things “not to all taste”. Let's keep following Janicki.
"There are calls for the opposition, especially the Platform, to present a comprehensive migration programme due to the fact that Poland needs outside workers. Yes, specified a program is needed, but if now specified a show had appeared, whatever it was, the PiS would have thrown a full propaganda storm on it, there would be no average conversation, just screaming. (...) It is clear that in order to come up with sensible solutions, the first thing to do is to win the elections – under the conditions they are, due to the fact that there will be no others.”
“In the conditions they are” is simply a key observation. Therefore, in agreement with the Confederation. Is Janicki truly so unreasonable that he does not know what it will be like to make a "migration programme" with these partners? Menzen, Bosak, Korwin-Mikke, Braun? You can buy a text about the strategical mimirka Tusk, which is known for certain (?) that crimes at the border will stop. But with the same hand, Janicki writes that he will gotta communicate with Confederacy Tusk. most likely in this case besides and in respective others. What Janicki does in reality is to build consent to fascist standards on this issue. And not just this one. It's already been agreed.
Janicki's empathic conscience is possibly erstwhile he refers to a public opinion that is unfavorable to immigrants, is subject to fear, which is not peculiarly different from that of Western countries, which can origin governments to fall. He can spread his hands, saying there's nothing we can do here. However, I will not cease to match Maria Kaczyńska's visit to the Lower Injections and her gathering with the Chechen refugee, whose 2 children died in the Polish border, due to a policy rather akin to the 1 known present from Podlasie. That was in 2007. besides in the election campaign. Kaczyńska has so far been the only figure of this political rank to have made specified a gesture. It is possible to trust on various things in this case, but the fact is that the attitudes of Poles are based solely on TVP, and the opposition has done nothing not to say explicitly that it joins the xenophobic propaganda of "defence" especially in the individual of Tusk. People in Podlasie know and do their own thing – not the bastion Platform. They're politically alone. erstwhile they save people's lives by exposing themselves to the harassment of the power services, the opposition standing up beats these services with applause – at the express request of the leader. Yes, painful pragmatism.
Pragmatism to pain requires integrity to facts. These are, in turn, that Polish elites in the media and politics zealously affirm their consent to fascism. In the name of victory. Which won't be.
Because possibly the conditions are what they are today, and there will be no others, but they have come from something. And Tusk is involved, and Mariusz Janicki is involved.
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Why is the opposition's triumph uncertain? And even if it does, it's definitely not enough? Why are we mentally preparing to talk to Menzen? Why are the Confederacy ratings increasing? due to the fact that KO turned besides hard to the left?
Somehow, it happened that we had to win these elections in all conditions in the autumn, and the joint list was needed to win them by majority, God forbid, constitutional. The joint list is no longer an option, and the votes of the opposition have fallen to the point that the 3rd word of the Law and Justice Office seems to be the most certain consequence to bet today.
There's no common list due to the fact that he didn't want it. Hołownia was not the only one, and he became on this occasion a boy to beat not only due to the fact that he was incredibly reliable, but above all due to the fact that he wanted to be and even was for a minute an alternate to the PO, from which he was not programically different, but only to be more reliable. Since the return of Tusk Holovnia has lost this opportunity, and with it – this is besides his work – seemingly besides the right being. However, he did not want the common list, for example Zandberg, and so the full Left. present it is clear that the task could not succeed, as it violated the most vital interests of the smaller parties in particular. It should be equally clear that his failure was determined by the fact that the inviteer was Platform and Donald Tusk, which put the invited in an highly hard situation. Only a cross-party social committee could effectively be the inviteer – but virtually no of the journalists always wanted to pay attention. As you can see, it is critically crucial for all, especially for smaller parties to be able to number in elections – so open primaries as a way to draw common opposition lists were another essential condition for agreement. The media had no gracious ear for that either. Private journalists said "they won't agree, it's not real." They didn't say anything about it in public.
The run for a common list has in this situation become an extension of Tusk's PR stiffs. It served not a common list, but the marginalization of malcontents, what happened and what caused this dramatic decline in opposition chances measured by polls since last autumn. Apart from the PR public statements, there were no concrete proposals from the PO, which in all ways we checked with the citizens of Poland, not only asking, but besides making countless proposals. All of them were rejected and not the primaries were concerned, but above all, with various procedures forcing malcontents to participate in integration initiatives at a considerable cost of refusal. Independent candidates declared (Polish citizens did so publically in an authoritative statement) that under these conditions they would join the letter of the KO if they remained the only ones open to integration. The fact is, they never were.
I do not know whether, in this situation, we are going in full steam, but we have surely already done everything possible to bring down the result of these elections by wasting the possible to give emergence to unprecedented victory. This is the consequence of the joint effort of leading politicians and leading media.
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I ran in the erstwhile elections and received respective tens of thousands of votes of Confederate voters – I got more than Krzysztof Bosak in the parliamentary elections. due to the fact that the Confederacy did not issue a candidate in my district, and its voters did not want to vote for either the Law and Justice or the Platform, but they were willing to vote for “someone real”, even though he was like me, “left”. The Confederate voters, yes, frequently feel the right, but their main motivations are fundamentally "over-party" and that's what they want: they want, first of all, change and require, above all, what they consider authenticism. If the word "anti-system" is frequently correct, it is very bad to say "system". The Confederacy's quotations are not increasing due to the fact that the Platform "turns left". They grow due to the fact that everyone else loses credibility.
These voters did not vote for Trzaskowski due to the fact that he told them that he had much in common with the Confederates economically... It is essential to be completely unwise to think that anyone will fall for specified a declaration – a public demonstration of electoral cyclicalism, not self-confidence, so the disqualifying text. Similarly, it was foolish to think that anyone who believed in the “patriotism” of politicians beating on the standing applause of “border defenders” liable for crimes on the Belarusian border. The voices of these people are different.
I compose about it due to the fact that no 1 has mentioned the Confederate voices but me, although many people have received them. They were given to all those who competed as part of the then "Senatic Pact" in a one-on-one situation with the candidate of the Law and Justice. On average, they received 7% more votes than they received in the same polling stations on the lists of 3 opposition parties in the parliamentary vote. It is apparent that this surplus, frequently essential for victory, had to come from Confederate voters. There were just no others. 'I was the only 1 who spoke about it in public and called for serious consideration of what this meant. There is no request to tame the Menzen coalition.
I remind Marian Turski "Auschwitz did not fall from the sky" ... And, yes, I besides remind Mariusz Janicki and others "for pragmatic pain" who want to play in "the conditions we have, due to the fact that there will be no others." We know this kind of pragmatism. It's to say, Munich.
Pragmatism makes you look at chances in the legislature election. They are little important, but they are a good diagnosis of the situation. The above-mentioned one-on-one situation was 1 of the objectives of the ‘Senat Pact’. But it was managed to lead to it in a number of districts. In another districts, ‘third parties’ took off. mostly not like me – they were mostly people from far-right environments. Everyone took the votes “our”, not the PiS. The opposition thus lost 10 tickets in the districts in which it had the advantage. The failure of the legislature candidates for the "Pact" was 18% on average compared to the parliamentary votes obtained by the 3 opposition parties... The Confederacy did not then issue candidates for the Senate. He's gonna set them up today. And PiS, unlike “ours”, draws conclusions. It will guarantee that more "third parties" appear in these elections. These people mostly start not to actually win but to "point" e.g. before local elections. This year they will have a unique opportunity, due to the fact that the local government elections are just now. So all the signs in heaven and earth show that with all the decline in PiS quotations, the legislature will be able to lose this time.
Pragmatism forbids present to fuck about the necessity of a "tactical alliance" with the Confederacy and about early elections according to a script sucked from a finger. In the legislature elections, he commands to always "pact" not between the leaders of the 4 parties, but in each of the 100 constituency and to include all the contenders outside the Law and Justice. That can be done. I spoke to respective specified people in different places in Poland. I was the only 1 who always spoke to them. I brought their statements to opposition leaders. They're not interested.
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Professor Marcin Król said in 1 of our public talks that there is no point in dealing with organization politics, due to the fact that it is hopeless, and it no longer matters. Life is somewhere else. I nodded, but in the fervor of kicking myself with the horse of organization cameras I could not comprehend the degree to which the prof. was right. I should have just taken care of something else. I knew what it was. And then Martin the King died, which I can't forgive him until today, and there were no more recorded conversations that we agreed on in time after Covid...
Marcin Król was very pragmatic, although Tusk spoke of him among others, proposing closed psychiatric wards to those who have political visions. Pragmatism makes us build a organization policy alternate today. He says halt digging with the horse. An alternate must be built in a country without public opinion and without media another than those that only explain to us what the genius of the leaders we have, due to the fact that we will not have others. Therefore, Pragmatism to pain besides leads us to conclude that the alternate does not seem real, and nevertheless we gotta look for it.
We have elections ahead of us, which – like all of them after 2015 – will destruct everything that has been built. If you believe Janicki – and you gotta believe him, due to the fact that he is 1 of those who form reality with texts alternatively than describe it – the demolition will include the remnants of liberal fundamental values. In a minute to win, you'll gotta wear black shirts.
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I will return from Italian land, but surely not to specified Poland. To what? There are any people who wanted to vote for me. To be honest, I don't know if that makes sense. With the citizens of the Republic of Poland, I decided to "go to the east Front" and run in the territory where I live and in which the PiS wins in tusks – to get off the line of completely unproductive digging with a organization camera on our side. But there's no way to make a deal here either. I would gotta run as a 3rd person, which does not make sense, due to the fact that it will only guarantee the success of the Law and Justice Office. In Warsaw, possibly again, the “pact” will exhibit Ujazdowski. The choice between him and me is not threatening to win the PiS, but that does not mean that there is simply a point to another specified clash without a greater chance of realising to the public. It's the least crucial thing I want to talk to those who wanted to vote. But you gotta talk her out of it.
One must first consider what to do in the long term. How to realize this unrealistic alternate so far. Poland, to which I want to return, consists of people who want to think about it, want to talk and want to do anything.
On my way to Poland, I have Monte Cassino. It will be torture for children, but I will visit the monastery and the Polish cemetery. I can't say no to that, but I can't tell you why.
