Sometimes I read narratives about how Russia sponsors us extremists, and if it wasn’t for Kremlin’s demonic politics, Poland would be like pictures in the Watchtower of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
I ate my teeth just in the survey of Russian influences, and although I am far from downplaying the activity of trolls, influence agents or their media expositions, it is to make the grain rise, that I request primarily fertile soil. This does not mean that a Pole is simply a genetic racist, xenophobic, descendant of a cashier and a collaborator, but it makes something of him, and the process itself is little spectacular than any buttons on the Kremlin.
Black earth salt
Imagine the situation of a tiny city, specified as 30-50 1000 inhabitants, with a very strong anti-communism built into the state structure – IPN level, academies to honor and honor taking, in the kind of decommunisation of squares and streets. There may be respective anarchists, respective Corvinists and respective nationalists in specified a city.
In the state narrative, the anarchist is evil – due to the fact that the property is sacred, and communism is associated with all leftist, even 1 to which the Bolshevik shot and put in the camp. As a result, an anarchist may be specified a “cool” rebel to young people who will set up a compound, hand out soup to the mediocre or execute a concert, but in the mainstream he will be attacked for violating property rights and left-wingness. And he'll be stuck in a niche, and then he'll grow up or he'll go to college, and that's it.
In turn, the nationalist will be praised according to the ideology of "national agreement", which truly serves to sustain the interests of the class having and will be a good patriot. He will talk to colleagues – we want a national revolution and forbid capital from the hands of the judaic cosmopolitans who want to corrupt us children, but we must call ourselves the “Patriot Academy”, sorry, not sorry. That's how we get any money, we go somewhere. We'll talk about ours there, but it'll just be an acceptable name. We're patriots. We can do this.
So they take money from the state through various institutions (IPN, IDMN, NIW, MKiDN, MEN, etc.) and are included in various celebrations and events. An anarchist won't go in there due to the fact that he doesn't accept the state at all. The communist leftist will besides have a problem, because: COMUNA! KATYN! KOMIMA! And the nationalists will be smart. They will be able to sustain their stories in public space and at the same time radicalize their fresh acolytes, who may enter these environments somewhat unconsciously, due to the fact that "I am besides a patriot."
The Korwinist in turn will go to companies and say, “You are the best, the salt of this land, the people of success.” And they will someway always repay each another – finance, work or a good word in the media. In this symbolic small town, if you want to make an anti-systemic conceptual policy, not a summertime narrative, you have a very narrow spectrum of possibilities.
And how do you add to that the fans whose perfect formation is the confusion of the cult of violence, pompously and naively understood patriotism and many threads of right-wing extremism that have been draining into these environments since the early 1990s, then you have another link – people organized as so accepted and enjoying public money, due to the fact that what else is simply a city stadium or another decent subsidies? Plus, paramilitary formations, and here you have a toxic environment, from which we are hatched "citizens' paramilitaries".
Municipal news
But without a tight narrative, it wouldn't have worked here, again, with the aid of mainstream. I don't mean the Law and Justice, but of course he's the 1 who's collecting the fruit of this process and making his contribution today. However, the case begins much earlier.
Take the case of Stephen Wójcik, a furry businessman who trades his goods through Amsterdam with Russia. He's furious about the trade blockade with Russia due to the fact that he's wasting money on it. He is annoyed that individual wants to push the laws of prosagna, based on specified Protestant German-Anglossian ideology of renunciation, purity, rejection of sin in a 100 percent, mixed with newage spirituality and human empathy. We can, of course, argue here, which is the root of this pro-animal attitude, but Peter Singer's utilitarianism as a doctrine is of the Protestant spirit.
My uncle’s proselytes, of course, do not like it. And then what does he do? He first paid for the Platform, but this 1 lost power in 2015. He wanted to pay for the PiS, but Kaczyński likes kittens, so he made an A for animals. Wójcik tried to influence the Law and Justice through people like Jan Szyszko, but it didn't work out.
So he started giving quite a few money to nationalists. Not only to the hand: he makes them tv in the Sense, which is his property. Its main star was Marek Misko, an ex-polak, a fan of the large Serbia and a nationalist, the 1 from the action RespectUs, where Wójcika's trucks rode around Europe with this slogan, rather accidentally driving Wójcika's fur in them. Misko recorded clips erased on his face, ironically apologizing to the Eskimos (this is an anti-Semitic code utilized in discussions about Jews online). We besides had Ewa Zajączkowska-Hernik there, whose self-promotion went so well that she became a Euro MP. tv itself is practically dead today, but what it did was she did it for an utmost right-wing narrative. There's quite a few tv like this, not that it's peculiarly important. It's just a clear example of how these relationships look and how they build narratives.
As a consequence of these 2 processes, ideological cameras, which are on the far right side, are much more hoarded and accepted in the main Polish current. Of course, not according to what they'd like, due to the fact that they'd want a lot more. However, on board are those elements that match the free marketplace puzzle. And they are told – you are anti-system.
Tox in the mainstream
It's gone mainstream. The PiS has a very extended media network present and I don't even mean the tv channels Republic or Poland24. More crucial is the network of various types of influencers in social media, able to impose topics, to practice effective astroturfing – i.e. to introduce topics that start to live on the net on their own, are presented further by subsequent accounts, so that the portal in Politics can make news specified as "Internet users are outraged!!!". Therefore, Dariusz Matecki, who controls many specified accounts, is unsinkable. Therefore, the PiS can impose themes, and the liberal side is only reactive. The government does not have a communication strategy, which is one more time clearly visible on the border.
The debate on migration in Poland will so not become more rational – nobody in Poland simply pays for it. The right and right-wing populist side builds support as a defender of the Polish identity against the flood of Islamists, criminals and sexual maniacs threatening the worship of Polish women – which is by its way an old, racist film. Liberals can break their hands over the language of the right, but they truly like a deal in which migrants do not feel besides assured in the country and accept, for example, very bad working conditions in entrepreneurs supporting centre parties. At the same time, they are increasingly taking over the right-wing language on migration.
Left for years she pretended there was no problem with migration, refused to talk about rationality migration policy“We welcome refugees with bread and salt”, which makes most people in Poland seem completely disconnected from what they see in the media. The wheel is closing. And we will be in this ellipse if there is no change in these fewer records I mentioned.
