It's a peculiar day. Why? For this is the eleventh day of May of the year of your twenty-fifth century twenty-one. But what's so peculiar about him? Today, a certain number of people will leave, which means they will die, a certain amount will come to this end. all day, there is no difference from others: the time of the end of the planet and the day of a fresh beginning, the birth of a fresh life; the day of sorrow and the day of joy. Truth, joy and individual sadness, family. But I know what this is about. 1 peculiar feature of the day.
present is Sunday, next week's election, first circular of presidential elections. For specified politically heated micro communities of net readers and commentators, it is the most crucial issue – presidential elections! It is time to address the elections, including our presidential ones, but in a somewhat different way. In fact, it will get tired of reading that candidate A is super and best, candidate B – is bee, whose bad, worst, and C – ridiculous and embarrassing. It is easy to announcement that these praises or reprimands do not come from the individual advantages of candidates: A, B or C, but individual beliefs of writers, this is their favourite parties. The candidate according to the authors' beliefs, the choice of their organization is good, and those supported by opposing parties – bad. And the worst are those who can most harm our favourite contender to the presidential pretend throne.
Today, 1 week before the first circular of elections or the first round, it will be about elections, or more mostly about democracy. As we know to the best of the systems or in any another version, the best of the worst of the systems, or the least of the bad political order. all power is evil, due to the fact that oppressive, due to the fact that all power forces obedience? Good question. Another analogy: election duel of presidential candidates versus boxing duel. Here we have 2 rounds, there are 3 – in amateur boxing. There could be a twelve in professional boxing rounds. 2 contenders for the title of champion, or champion, fight in the final of the national or planet championship. In a political duel to the highest office in the country we have respective candidates. Here, they fight each, respective of them, or they all throw themselves at one. Nebulatic coalitions, frequent betrayals, everyone attacks, bites, ridicules as much as possible any rival, especially the most dangerous ones. In a boxing struggle, the contenders fist each other, in an election struggle, the contenders spread, attack and wound themselves with words. As you know, the word hurts more than the knife. Just a fist. In boxing, dead bodies seldom fall, in political combat much, much more often. It's a fight to the death.
The last most crucial difference. There are rules in sports, there are no in politics. In the boxing duel, for example, punches below the belt, chemical support of the boxer, or steel glove inserts are prohibited. This is regulated by strict rules of various sports federations. We besides have quite a few regulations in politics: constitutions, laws, penal codes, and everything is allowed here. To be exact, you can do anything but win. Champions, i.e. incumbent presidents or prime ministers. The losers will be accounted for by any real or imaginary twist. That's the theory. Practice is much worse. The boxing fight is simply a fair, open fight by 2 contenders on equal terms. And how frequently does it happen? We have coaxing, or chemically assisted athletes, biased judges, set matches.
Political games are much worse. An example, 1 of many. Mohammed Mursi was elected in a democratic election and took over the State president of Egypt on June 30, 2012. comparatively recent. His regulation lasted a small over a year. Already in early July 2013, in the coup d'état, the Egyptian army overturned the democratically elected president Mursi's regulation and introduced the army's regulation continuing to this day. Why was president Mohammed Mursi defeated? due to the fact that he was a bad man, a terrorist! The voters were mistaken to choose this wicked man as president. Atoli good people – the Egyptian generalization – having been aware in time introduced law and order in the state. In the consciousness of the evil man and dangerous politician president Mursi, the large function was played by diplomacy and secret services of Israel and the USA.
president Mohammed Mursi did not hide his hostility to Israel's policy, especially with respect to the way Israel treats its non-Jewish residents, that is, the persecution of Palestinians. It was his large mistake. The safe and peaceful border with Egypt – the foundation of Israel's safety – was called into question. Panic Israeli politicians hit the U.S. government. The U.S. administration pulled strings – Egypt and his army were and is after Israel a second ally and receiver of American weapons in the mediate East. There it is. The evil president was overthrown and the governments took over the good and the wise. They besides obey us and Israel. president Mohammed Mursi – hailed as a Muslim fundamentalist and terrorist – well, he had a hard life after his political death. That's what politics do. The regulation is not an exception. The fresh authorities have brought respective trials to the ex-president. Egyptian courts – and Egyptian judges are as free and independent as our natives, especially those of the years justly passed, from the Stalinist times – have spent many years in prison on erstwhile president Mursi, including 2 life prison sentences and 1 death conviction for spying on Qatar (sic!) paper forgery, betrayal of state secrets and another hideous crimes. The Egyptian authorities have not decided to execute the death sentence. They chose another method. Mohammed Mursi died in court on June 17, 2019, during 1 of his many trials. He must have had a heart attack, mediocre boy. Or he was poisoned. We'll never know. Either way, the death punishment hit him.
Peace prevailed in the mediate East; the Egyptian-Israeli alliance is the foundation of peace. The border with Egypt, like a wall, and behind this wall, Jews can quietly expropriate, rape and execution Palestinians. The president of Egypt since 2014 is erstwhile leader of the coup - Abd al-Fattah as-Sisi, who had previously appointed himself Field Marshal. And it's good. The elections in Egypt are held, of course. Abd al-Fattah as-Sisi wins them in cuglas by winning no problem after 90% of the vote. And this is real democracy. erstwhile citizens vote for who's the only 1 worthy of becoming president! People should know who to vote for. If they don't know, they request to be made aware. 1 way or another. I'm not bullying Egypt. It was the same in 45 years.
Another example of actual democracy, besides related to America, a model of democracy. From our yard. 8 years of organization regulation with conservative name and an alliance called by it from the US. I called it Alliance 2.0. The first alliance, 1.0, is simply a Polish-American alliance from the years of planet War II. Completed as we know, by treaties from Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam, Poland lost half its territory and 45 years of russian rule. Alliance 2.0 ended much softer for us, I must admit. Only the overthrow of the right-wing government. The erstwhile U.S. administration praised our politicians loudly and they were bursting with pride, selling us weapons for billions of dollars, and behind her back she spent millions of dollars on a run defaming the Polish government indirectly through various foundations.
After years and spending millions of dollars, the defamation run carried the effect. In fresh elections, the pro-American organization supposedly suffered a right-wing defeat and the parties took over openly, say, skeptical of America. How did the U.S. benefit? I have no idea. Objectively, the U.S. harmed itself. But stupidity occurs everywhere, besides at the heights of power. The erstwhile president Biden did not sin with reason, especially as the brain's leftovers consumed his dementia. The U.S. administration for its own money planted the leg and overturned the largest U.S. ally in Europe. The elections were as democratic as possible. Vox populi vox Dei – the voice of the people with the voice of God. The will of the people decides, decides. It doesn't substance what happened before the election. What was the run like, though full of lies, slanders, libel. There's an election like a minute of purification. Those who have been lied to for years, those who have been manipulated, mamiono, suddenly, as erstwhile they contact the magic wand at the ballot box, regain their sight and clarity of thought. Whether you contact the hand of a god at the polling station. And we have anointed, chosen, victorious. From the swamp of lies, from the magma of propaganda is revealed sincere gold cleansed in the heat of an election act. Rarely, but sometimes it happens, not a miracle, but a minute of truth, a actual purification like the 1989 election - go.
Is that so? I don't think anyone believes in this miracle of purification over the urn. Although the “miracle over the urn” is an average substance especially in our part of the world. Here we come to another difference between sports competitions, specified as boxing or football matches and political competitions, for a failure called democratic elections. For example, in football, the game is won by this team, which will score the opposing goal more goals than it will lose itself. Simple rules. We know of fraud, like printing matches by bribing judges or setting scores erstwhile 2 teams agree on the result. In political competition, we frequently go further. By analogy to the A and B football match. We know he's gonna win the B-team. How do you know? due to the fact that that's what they're expected to do due to the fact that that's what it's like for the higher, and the secret forces are comfortable. Or for another reasons more or little public, or secret. If squad B – the 1 to win – shoots more goals, then everything is fine. And if the B squad has a worse goal balance than the opponents, it is announced that we are changing the rules. Since then, the squad that scored little goals wins! And these fresh rules are just and just. As always, this squad is winning. As in Egypt, the president of the as-Sisi or the communists of the working party. In addition, everyone is told that these rules were introduced before the match (small finger) and who did not know the trumpet. And his fault.
Here you can see that sports competition, no substance in the arena, stadium or sports hall, is not suitable for political competition. As far as the game's rate is concerned, tough as no rules. And right, for the election is about the highest good, about power. And in sports about fame, prestige, gold-plated discs called medals, or most frequently about money.
Does anyone have that cognition for election, or is it presidential or parliamentary? How is democracy? Happy birthday to you! Well, it depends on what kind of democracy and what kind of election. If we have alleged adjective democracy, as we utilized to have socialist democracy, this is rather simple. In socialist democracy, the winners were those who were to win, and in advance it was known who would win and who would lose. The mediocre were the ones who stubbornly talked about any free elections. They were in prison, and that was the mildest punishment. Democracy is just a word. Just like the table. There are plenty of kinds of table. The low, high, tiny and decomposed, rectangular and oval, kitchen and tableware, are quadruped, 3 and one-legged. To choose from, to color.
So does democracy. Democracy is changing as people and societies are changing. Take ancient Athens, the cradle of democracy. Another was the Athenian democracy in the 1950s, the 1940s B.C.E., erstwhile the city was rich, many citizens and ruled leaders to the measurement of Pericles. Another was Athenian democracy after the unfortunate Sicilian expedition (413 BC) erstwhile Athens were mediocre and depopulated after large losses in war and terrified of the future. Another democracy, the Roman and its ultimate power: the senate, the Roman parliament. Another was the legislature in the mid III centuries B.C.E., from the times of the First Punic War, another in the mid-first century B.C.E., 2 100 years later. Another democracy, another was the Roman people. During the First Punic War, and earlier, the Roman people were peasants who owned their own land, tiny merchants and craftsmen. The wealth was small and their wealth was comparatively small. In those days, after the campaign, the Roman chief returned on his own farm and plowed his field with his own hands. The most celebrated of them is Lucius Quinccius Cyncinat ("Kędzierzawy", or ore, 5th century BC). erstwhile Rome was in danger, Lucius Quinccius Cyncinat was appointed dictator by the legislature in 458 B.C.E. After defeating enemies in 16 days, Cyncinate gave up unlimited power and returned to work in his field. Lucius Quinccius Cyncinat became a symbol of the virtues of a Roman citizen. Lucius Quincius Cyncinat and Pericles, nearly peers, highly crucial politicians, 1 in the Roman republic, the another in Athens' democracy.
Such Romans as Lucius Quinccius Cyncinat formed the Senate, Lucius was not only a dictator but besides a consul; they created the power of the Roman republic. Centuries later in the first century B.C.E. The legislature was ruled by the rich, by our billionaires, the owners of immense latyfunds. The legislature reminded a flock of wolves who looked intently for no to grow above others. The enslaved Roman people were in contempt of the large and fed on the waste from your tables. It ended erstwhile it had to. 1 of this wolf pack, Julius Caesar, smarter than others, played the others and turned the republic into the only power called the imperial empire. And yet here, and here, formally, it was democracy, republic.
How about us? Let's compare our democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and the modern. The first of them fresh and hopeful as spring green, the second, present weary, bitter and full of doubt. We have lived to see the time when, erstwhile we left socialist democracy through the (short) celebration of democracy, we reached another adjective democracy – a fighting democracy. Democracy is changing due to the fact that we are changing, times and societies are changing. Sometimes it takes centuries, like in the Roman republic, sometimes decades or years, like in Athens democracy or our modern democracy. Democracy seems to be the same, but it is simply a different democracy, a different strategy only formally called the same name.
So what will be the result of the next elections? erstwhile we have a Red Prime Minister's declared fighting democracy? hard to say. What is different is the proclamation, or wishful reality, and what is different is the real reality. It will shortly come to light. Fighting democracy is simply a contradiction, the same as soloist democracy. 1 part of the name denies the another and fights it. Will democracy prevail, or will it dominate the adjective – the fighting one? We'll see which 1 wins. Not for long, not for a week or 3 weeks.
Atoli, having the kind of government we have, who can be amazed that the rulers will go to all decision to win their candidate? Right or wrong, no matter. Sports analogy: they will bribe judges, effort to set the score, at the end they will effort to change the consequence of the match erstwhile their candidate loses. Driven to a dead end. They have nothing to lose and much to win. How amazed is it that they are directing massed propaganda, lies, and preposterous charges; that they will usage secret acts and peculiar services to compromise, harm, best destruct and taint the most dangerous countercandidate. They're going to go all the way, to all meanness and lawlessness to win if we let them. We have a democracy fighting. What's so unexpected about that? Surprising? Or sensational!
We'll see. On the 1 hand the will of the rulers, on the another hand the will of the people. The balance of these 2 alternating forces. consequence unknown. I believe that Poles, a nation like no hard-experienced one, cannot be deceived and manipulated by easy-to-read games and tricks of the authorities. But it's just a confession of faith. It'll be what it is. As always. For sure, after a day comes the night, after a summertime winter, and the end of life is death. The remainder are just words. And dreams. Fuzzy. Or stupid stuff that's in our head. Or those we ourselves believe in from laziness, intellectual weakness, or for convenience. I besides believe there's a lie and there's a truth. Either 1 or the another is true. Never both at once. Whether you like it or not. It sounds modest, but it's a confession of large faith.
There is fact and falsehood. Democracy or democracy fighting, socialist or another adjective. The choice is ours.
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