One step forward, ten steps back. “Pro-EU parties claim Polish election victory”.
In Heaven, Pope John Paul II is shedding a tear, perhaps regretting that Poland ever dropped Communism. For this? https://www.rt.com/news/585001-poland-elections-tusk-victory-opposition/
I regularly shake my head on checking what our rulers are doing or planning, or see the results of their policies, and mutter, “Miserable country”. Soon, Poles can join the club, if exit polls prove correct. Now that the battlefields on which the future of Europe and the world will be determined have actually heated up, this is not as upsetting as it would be in the past, but still, it is dismaying after the positive result in Slovakia just weeks before.
Lessons demonstrated?
—’Democracy’, unfortunately, was never under threat. After eight years of ‘erosion’, the officialdom of Law and Justice Poland is reporting the government’s defeat. The problem is precisely that populists DO believe in liberal democracy/“our values”.
—While the Right has a liberalism problem, it doesn’t necessarily have a laissez faire problem. Law and Justice oversaw great amounts of social spending benefitting young families and other vulnerable Poles, so it embodied the alternative path many on the Right critical of the libertarian/“small government” have longed for in the Anglosphere. Yet even with welfarism it still lost. On a related note,
—Voters lack the ability to connect a problem to it actual policy cause. Many attributed high inflation to the heavy social spending, seemingly oblivious to this being an international phenomenon, at the root of which is the weakening of the US dollar, the currency of the ally they voted for yet closer ties with, and more subservience to.—In contemporary conditions, no national majority can possibly be forged that will reliably return the Right to power. In terms of political organization, Polish Independence Day marches are an annual spectacle second to none of nationalist fervor, with an incredible variety of organizations involved, and a great youth presence. Spiritually, Poland is known as perhaps the most Catholic White country by regular practice and orthodoxy, and the Polish Church is proverbial for its conservatism, just as neighboring Germany is for its heterodoxy. Poland is also home to fewer non-Whites than most European countries. Eventually though, the left-liberals martialled enough abortion-craving single women, happily barren LGBTs, and hipster eurofederalists to outvote the patriots (Hungary may be a singular exception due to its peculiar mix of proportional and district seats). This strongly suggests that,
—There can be no lasting victory for patriots across Europe, until both the name and the trappings democracy itself are no more. The fact that this election was a feature of an entity called the Republic of Poland, is itself what the problem is. Elements of Confederation showed some awareness of this, as there are open monarchists who hold seats under the alliance.
—Most fundamentally, I would argue—this is not usually how political thinkers approach forms of government—that the celebrated peaceful transfer of power to a hostile opposition, is itself an immoral, inexcusable practice that is one of the worst parts about liberal democracy. If the Law and Justice leadership cares for the future of Poland, how can they cede power to parties that promise to cede state sovereignty, abort or trans the nation’s children to further the culture of death? Amen, I think if leaders recalled their paternal responsibilities, they could not act fast enough to adopt an authoritarian government.
Unfortunately people, and Whites in particular, are predisposed (and further conditioned) to demand not just good rule, but participation in their rule, even when the scale of the state males that impractical. This in turn leads to the inevitable, dishonest “consent of the governed” schemes that only obscure how government actually works, and where responsibility lies for decisions. But as it is, it looks as if only those countries that do not hold meaningful elections, do not base power on opaque rights ideologies, have any future to speak of, so the sooner circumstances remove the burden of democracy, and all her illusory freedom and rationality from us, the better. #EndDemocravy #Poland #PolishElection2023 #PolishElection #PolandElection2023 #PolandElection #LawAndJustice #PiS #lessons #wisdom #monarchy #authoritarian #Europe