Last week, the Sejm voted, among another things, on changes in the rules for charging the wellness contribution for 2025 and on free Christmas Eve. Both votes showed a fresh political dynamic between the 2 sects of the seismic left – this government and this ellipse Together – which can be expected to form their relations in the coming months.
While the Left praised the vote on the free Christmas Eve rules as its large success, social media Together presented this as a disaster at least to the degree of the liquidation of 800+: due to the fact that the free Christmas Eve would not be here yet this year, and trade workers added an additional working Sunday in December. Although the Free Christmas Day task yet took this form of politicians and activists Together they blamed various forces – from “libks” from KO to PiS – quite a few bile, pretension and anger was directed at the Left.
As with the vote on the wellness contribution, where I think the most has been received by Members who have late left Together. “And this is your doing?!” – you can summarize mocking memes and posts on the X portal.
The game is the game
It is hard to be amazed that the activists and politicians Together are now focusing their online aggression on fresh allies. They must someway justify their incomprehensible even for many of the most faithful sympathizers the decision to leave the club, and the easiest way to do so is to attack erstwhile clubmates, portraying them as traitors and betraying leftist ideals, gyrating actions of the "antisocial government". As individuals who sacrificed the values with which they went to the elections for the "tables" in the Tusk government, without gaining any real influence in exchange for loyalty.
Similar attacks are easy adequate that the actions of the Left in this government are not truly striking. crucial projects for her, if they go through, in rather a truncated form, part of the key agenda related to human rights – especially women – have been effectively blocked by the PSL and the Holovnia, the organization must besides take work for respective policies that deviate from its worldview identity – from the wellness area to the border situation.
Although 1 may wonder whether the Left has truly always chosen the targets it has pushed for within the coalition – I have peculiar doubts about political and social sense of widow’s pension – it is its limited aggravation that results little from errors or failures of leaders, and the larger, decisive, from seismic arithmetic.
Left is just the weakest part of the government's coalition, and is simply a lonely island in a centre-right block. Although for part of his agenda he can look for allies on the left wing of KO or Poland 2050, building intra-coalition alliances for his own economical and social policy is simply a much more hard task. Her position at the very beginning weakened the decision to not enter the government and then break up the club.
The way Together points at this limited acquittal is already beginning to take ugly, manipulative forms, but unfortunately this is what politics looks like. Also, the organization that promised that "another policy is possible" is not free from its rules. It's like the show. Street LawGangsters said erstwhile individual complained about the brutality of fighting for influence on the Baltimore drug market: the game is the game.
And this game will become even more violent if next year together you can collect 100,000 signatures – which, given the current state of the party, is not apparent at all – and exposure your candidate against the candidate or candidate of the Left.
It is apparent that Zandberg's possible run – together there is barely a real candidate – will should be based on attacking the government with peculiar emphasis on what he does and what the Left does not do.
If against Zandberg Magdalene Biejat, the run can become peculiarly violent – activists and sympathizers Together reports that Biejat would be the candidate in next year's election, they have already commented on accusations of "presidency nomination as a reward for betrayal".
Voters may anticipate more than a witness that you have opposed
On the another hand, as opposed to limited government action Left there is at the minute much more to offer too rather powerless signaling your own virtue. And I uncertainty that this offer will expand, due to the fact that the temptation of specified a policy has always been very strong among activists and sympathizers Together.
The alliance with the Spring and the SLD in 2019 hoped that at least the organization leaders had matured and saw that politics could not limit its expressive functions, that political action was not only witnessing to their own values, but besides a much more hard art of building a coalition to translate any of them into reality. Unfortunately, the year 2023 and what happened with the Together, after the election showed that the organization inactive lies in an expressive-performative model of reasoning about politics and is not very able to go beyond its framework.
This part of the organization that remained in it after the divided will dig even more into akin patterns of reasoning about politics. More importantly, after the divided and exit of the coalition, people who left in 2019, rejecting the compromise with Biedron and Czarzasty, any of them were even elected to the fresh National Council.
Of course, it is not that there are no voters in Poland, for which it is crucial that their representatives in the Sejm apply for migrants' rights, free Sundays for trade workers or hit the government for "bending the budget". Those who, for their well-being, request to be able to say to themselves: my Members behaved decently erstwhile they had to, they were against it. The problem is that the marketplace for this kind of policy in the left-wing edition is very limited in Poland. And there's no indication that in almost 10 years of her existence, together, she's been able to importantly grow it.
The electors anticipate politicians not only to express their values, but besides to be able to solve their problems in real terms, even in part, by delivering concrete promises. Especially those voters who, together with alternatively weak effects, have been trying to scope for almost a decade: weaker socially, economically and symbolically. For them, it is more crucial than proceeding a "voice" in Parliament that Parliament should yet vote on solutions capable of realising their situation. And together today, I think, is the last political force anyone can talk to with conviction: “They will get me.” This is mainly due to the weakness and isolation of the organization on the Polish political stage, but besides to the image created by the leaders of this formation.
2015 again?
Two opposing lefts – 1 struggling with the problem of limited, frustrating electoral causatives, the another digging at the position of powerless signaling virtue – can easy discourage voters into the full formation. And as a result, push fresh Left to the electoral threshold, while not allowing Together to even repeat its best independent consequence from the 2015 parliamentary elections erstwhile the organization won 3.62% of the vote, which gave it the right to co-finance from the budget. At the same time, it should be remembered that in the 2015 election we had very low attendance – 50.92 percent – and in absolute figures only 550 1000 votes were cast.
This consequence caused almost enthusiasm in the Together. Money for further activity and pushing under the threshold of the United Left gave hope for a major reconstruction on the left. These hopes proved to be growing, at least in terms of the future Together as a stand-alone force – and we must commend the organization leaders that in 2019 they correctly assessed the situation and entered a broad left-wing coalition.
However, the 2015 replay would be tragic for the Polish left. It would most likely mean the Sejm, where the Confederate – or any fresh libertarian organization – decides whether he wants to regulation with the Law and Justice or KO. This script must be avoided at all costs. For now, however, the conflict on the fresh Left-To-To-To-To-Be line should be squeaked, and after a painful breakup, it is impossible to close the bad emotions to the bottle.
