Today, it is hard to be clear what the presidential campaigns of the 2 most serious candidates on the left – Magdalena Biejat and Adrian Zandberg are about. It is easy to get the impression that both staffs listened to the conservatives and that part of the left-wing agenda was hidden in the closet.
Magdalena Biejat called the large Women's Convention on 8 March, in which the word "abortionMore than once. ” That's a lot due to the fact that the Vice Marshal of the legislature usually avoids him like a fire, preferring circular slogans about freedom of choice. It is simply a pity that the only serious candidate in a male race as always brings abortion to a commemorative theme. Especially since erstwhile you read these words, about Saturday's "female" convention no 1 remembers, and besides on the weekend it was not curious in anyone.
Yet the murderous abortion law in Poland has late brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets throughout the country, besides in these truly tiny towns, which is simply a circumstantial phenomenon after 1989. But we had time to let the subject burn out and click. In Adrian Zandberg's campaign, you besides request to get a good grip to find something about abortion.
But first of all, I have the impression that the election staff together took to heart the twitter tirades of anonymous accounts that the organization is constantly talking about imaginary gays and another queers who do not truly be outside the center of Warsaw, and it is time to yet present an offer for the "working class". The effect is that Adrian Zandberg says quite a few different things in the campaign, and I'm willing to bet you won't mention 2 now. Anything that stays in our memory for longer.
What's left?
At the end of January MP Together Paulina Matysiak said at 1 of the meetings with podcast fans Two left hands.that leftist parties do not focus adequate on material matters and besides much on "fashionable things from the west specified as pronouns". Thankfully. Here and there she was explained, that it is not very clear what left it is about – due to the fact that the local 1 about pronouns does not squeak. The reproduction of fashion from the West is alternatively complaining about pronouns and rainbows – only that it is simply a fashion for conservative, right-wing, reactionary.
Together, he does not have the courage to stand on the side of LGBTQ+ and it is not a substance of 1 post or appearance on a conservative event, but of the full organization narrative, conducted in and outside the campaign. And for what to do with the naughty beast of Kutna, the organization has no idea. In the meantime, Matysiak gives further reasons to reflect. For example, last week erstwhile she voted in the Sejm "against the detention and arrest of Matecki MP", due to the fact that "The Sejm should not decide on someone's arrests".
In a akin situation, only that concerning Marcin Romanowski in Hungarian exile, Matysiak voted the another way around. Does it substance here that Matecki was – like Marcin Horala or Karol Nawrocki – active in the association Yes for CPK? I don't know, but I'm so old, I remember how the left-wing corners of the net were full of delight over the ability to get along beyond divisions. It was adequate to see who Paulina Matysiak was capable of ecumenical dialog with – you wouldn't request to thin down on Matecki to get over you, and Horala is just a cherry on the cake.
Meanwhile, the organization together on the 1 hand avoids sticking the face of its most popular envoys on occasional graphics (e.g. on Women's Day), and on the another hand does not have the courage to cut off from the increasingly spectacular acrobatics of the envoys and possibly completely get free of it. The suspension, negotiations or organization friendly court does not care, and surely not LGBTQ+ people, who stay with the feeling that the typical of the left organization called them "the fashion from the West" and likes 1 of the most apparent scum in Poland more than them.
Courage, party, car or carriage. You can't have a popular MP in your ranks and not have 1 at a time. The choice is rather simple: either non-heteronormative people, or organizing the happening decontamination of streets after these Matecki people.
The Establishment will accept the Left on 1 condition
When Katarzyna Kotula easy survived a vote of distrust initiated by the PiS, Senator Anna Górska (ex-Together) called Kotula a breakthrough minister on LGBT+ rights, adding that "who does not see it is blinded by hatred". I see this breakthrough as much as possible, due to the fact that I remember how in mid-January the minister Kotula mentioned in the session of the committeethat now is not the time to talk about the rights of trans people due to the fact that the presidential run is underway. This was indeed a breakthrough – I don't think that in Poland this kind of words would come out of the mouth of a politician or a left-wing party's policy (old electorals do not count).
And just so there is – I do not think that galloping housing prices, social inequalities, taxation systems, public services, electricity bills or butter prices are not relevant. On the contrary, I anticipate the left to be able to manage these topics.
At the same time, I believe that the left listening to conservatives, which subjects are to give up, is the left, which allows the toilet to flush. Today, Mrs Matysiak suggests that customs and – if you're sorry – “the worldview” should be hidden due to the fact that Poles don't like them. Poles don't care. You can be either gay or Polish, any canned female can tell you that.
But it is simply a simple way to hear next day that the left must halt talking about taxation progression, due to the fact that Poles, especially workers from the province, are curious in easy and simple taxes. Or about public transport, due to the fact that Poles – especially workers from the state – are curious in inexpensive fuel and 2 cars in each family.
The left has to halt being a left to be accepted by the right-wing establishment, but it is simply a pity that it allows it so easily. All you gotta do is 1 or the another conservative step up louder with his leg, and he'll meek out of fear. present leftist parties seem to perceive to Marcin Gielzak erstwhile he complains about the deficiency of a patriotic left. Will they start listening to Luke Warzecha tomorrow? Both of them already have podcasts with James Smoke. Who knows, possibly in front of our eyes, creating intellectual and programming facilities for the fresh Polish left?
I'll tell you a secret: most left-wing publicists don't give a crap about real social change. They just want the Conservatives to let them come to the table. I do not know if we can afford to have left-wing politicians effort to repeat this maneuver.
Proud and Utopian
Film Pride (Proud and angry) from 2014 on how UK strikes unite LGBTQ+ activists and have initially problems with their acceptance of miners. A very warm and uplifting film, I recommend.
I realize that speaking of him here, I'm putting myself in danger of being naive, of being detached from reality, and surely of being tasteful. due to the fact that this movie is simply a small bit like a fairy tale that was made to make the sad left man feel a small warmer erstwhile in his life. And I'm certain if you show it to the left-wing Poles, they'll tell you right after the screening that it's a cool story, but despite being based on utopian facts.
But this has always been left-wing – utopian thinking. To specify the perfect imagination of full automated luxury gay cosmic communism and to prosecute it, even with the cognition that it will never be full realized. But that's the only way to decision the right-wing planet to the left, even by a millimeter, which I want you and myself. And I want Polish leftist politicians the courage to be left.
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Wojtek Żubr Bolinski – programme creator guillotine.
