Finally, it is time to effectively end the fight against misinformation – with the thesis about the alleged Smolensk bombing, which allowed the PiS to gain power, and to polarize and fight Poles. Qui bono? Who benefited from the “attack”? The answer is simple and unquestionable that the Law and Justice and the Russians.
The Law and Justice spent millions of gold from public money to support their regulation with conspiracy explanation of assassination. It was the foundation stone and the founding story of the written rule. However, it is adequate to see the study by Piotr Świerczek “The Power of Lies” to see the manipulations of the subcommittee Antoni Macierewicz, investigating the causes of the Smolensk catastrophe. She was expected to prove the thesis about the assassination. According to factchecking website demagog.org.pl fighting misinformation in 2012, 25 percent of Poles believed in the assassination, and 34 percent believed in 2020. According to the latest polls, 29 percent support this thesis, while at the same time believing in the assassination over 75 percent of the PiS electorate. Why do they believe in what has not been proven in any way? The answer is simple: it is consistent with their ideas of the planet and emotional needs, which perpetuate cognitive consonances or so-called. confirmation bias. Admitting that this religion is simply a mistake would be a cognitive shock to them. In another words, their illusion-based planet would fall apart like a home of cards and fall on their heads. That's why they'll proceed to lie and talk about the Smolensk bombing. This is simply a case of Antoni Macerewicz, Jarosław Kaczyński or Jack Sasin.
Jacek Sasin, erstwhile Deputy Prime Minister, guest of Monika Olejnik's program “Kropka nad i”, has been saying for years that there was an assassination in Smolensk. alternatively of referring to charges against Macerewicz and his squad (41 communications to the prosecutor's office, including 24 to Macerewicz, among others, about diplomatic betrayal), he attacked with the leading words: “You say there was an accident (in Smolensk – M.P.), and Putin is an angel.” Sasin's head doesn't fit that it could have been an accident, and that those who don't believe in the assassination may at the same time consider Putin a criminal. Sasin does not believe in the “ordinary accident”, but the evidence that it was an assassination, simply NO, despite the release of over 100 million zlotys by the Smolensk Subcommittee, to confirm specified a thesis! Another PiS policy gave a opposition to Monika Olejnik, demanding Sasin's apology for telling her that Putin considered an "angel". You don't request to be Putin's lawyer to not believe a Smolensk lie!
The insulting, hateful and sharing of people, the uttering of unimaginable nonsense in the kind of “Russia and Germany felt that it was essential to execution the President” (Antonio Macierewicz's statement) – it was a permanent repertoire of written disinformation, present in right-wing media and transferred by PiS politicians to the others. Pluralism and freedom of view cannot service to spread lies, and their bearers should be asked out of programs due to the fact that they spoil public debate with their intellectual phobias. For propaganda lies Smolensk and its followers in decent media there is no place and should not be. It is time to inoculate society against the virus of political misinformation!
