poland

“What the world gets wrong about Poland’s election”

> write like you stopped absorbing new information in 2007, but you heard about this MAGA thing in the meantime

> suggest that chugging a beer will cancel out everything the voters hate about a certain candidate

> complain about the low turnout while it’s likely headed for record levels

“What the world gets wrong about Poland’s election”

> write like you stopped absorbing new information in 2007, but you heard about this MAGA thing in the meantime

> suggest that chugging a beer will cancel out everything the voters hate about a certain candidate

> complain about the low turnout while it’s likely headed for record levels
https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2025/06/what-the-world-gets-wrong-about-polands-election

True! 

The context here is that Poland has spent the last two decades oscillating between two right-wing parties, both of which have masterfully sold the illusion that they’re radically different from each other and that the other’s victory would bring doom. At the same time, the fringe-right got there first in calling out this charade for what it is, so they’re the ones usually benefitting from the disillusionment…* The story is actually similar in a number of other countries, but here some additional flavors from the post-communist transition process are added to the mix.

*although the democratic socialists are recently on the rise, so the situation might get a bit more interesting in the coming years

There’s too little talk about how disillusionment is a strategy.

Against all odds, the author managed to produce one non-misleading sentence, which is: “it is also increasingly difficult to ignore the growing disillusionment that Poles feel toward politics”.

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