I don't like to blog about politics, but the impending solstice on the left is forcing this subject on me. Silence can besides be a comment, here, that I do not want.
I am not hiding that the panic of politicians from the mainstream alleged left is observed with the tiny Chichrenfreude. In these elections, the last remnants of the Palikot Movement will vanish from the Polish political map, and it is possible that outside the Sejm (and so most likely outside politics) the SLD will land.
I'm not gonna cry after those parties. For a very long time, no of them have done anything to make me call "ah, how fortunate it is that there is simply a SLD/Palikot in the Sejm."
There are many things in which I would like to hear the voice of left-wing politicians. The TTIP Treaty written under the corporate dictatorship (and previously ACTA). Corporate and individual taxation bills. Garbage trucks. Commercialisation of education and wellness care. Degressivity of the contribution to ZUS. Dentity of Labour Inspection.
Are you acquainted with the fresh activities of SLD politicians or Palikot on these issues? delight respond in comments. It's possible I don't admit it just due to my general political apathy. I have simply long lost hope that 1 of the 460 freeloaders in the Sejm (and 100 in the Senate) will rise any crucial issue for me. So I stopped listening to them.
Sometimes jumping through the sewers, I'll run into any alleged "I didn't interrupt you" publicist program. I'll look at them all for a minute with the same disapproval.
Nobody is there “my”, I don't support anyone, I don't want to go for coffee with anyone (not to mention beer). The things they deal with, I don't truly care – e.g. a monument to the victims of the Smolensk catastrophe may stand, may not stand, may actually hang.
And even if it's crucial to me, I don't anticipate any of this stuff from anyone. Really, what can a Polish politician say about Putin? Even if I agree with him, I know he'll give me the same clichés I'll find elsewhere.
This is the most common mistake of the Polish elite – the belief that they have any spontaneous support. That erstwhile a group of columnists announce “we are starting a party, join us”, individual will actually join us. That erstwhile the organization exposes in the election individual with Barbie's looks and intelligence, the electorate will vote criminally. That individual likes them or respects them.
And then it's a surprise – they didn't come. They didn't join. They didn't vote. They don't want to unite.
I like the task of the “Together” organization precisely due to the fact that it is no longer a part of social snub with Olejnik and Rymanowski. I will automatically lose interest if there are “known faces” there, due to the fact that in politics I have specified that if I know a politician, I do not like him.
I can actually have a small credit to Barbara Nowacka, but only due to the fact that I don't know anything about her. I found out about her existence six months ago erstwhile a fewer people regretted not becoming a joint candidate for the left for president. But she besides seems suspicious to me that if anyone could have seriously had any political hopes with Palikot, then, uh, it's not a good sign of him.
And don't say "who could have predicted" again. I could, all those doctors and professors couldn't?
I am glad that the organization Together has not been drawn into the trap of "a common list of the left". No substance what it's called – it's going to mean that the another entities are absorbed by the SLD.
The name “Democratic Left Soyusz” is an echo after the Sociallemocracy of Poland (as the name of the repainted PZPR from 1989 to 1999) established a broad coalition in 1991. Yep, under the aegis of OPZZ, too.
The entities of this coalition were absorbed into the SLD or lost. The doomed cooperation with the SLD besides ended for later coalitions, the Labour Union and the Democratic Party.
And I'd even be in favour of seeing any tactical advantage in it. In times of idealistic youth, I supported the inclusion of PPS on the SLD's letters, because, yes, I think it was worth the fewer tickets. I'm not talking about the primary condemnation of the SLD for illegal origin.
But now there will be no tactical advantage. All of this "common list" will not exceed 8% (I callback that the coalition threshold is higher than for self-starting parties – which is lower 5%).
In this situation, I like to vote together, even if they only get 2%. It will be an introduction to building a structure that will enter the Sejm in 4 years. I don't even notice, due to the fact that I seldom watch.
