Torq: Poland under Tusk and Komorowski is nothing more than a German vassal, Crow, which is not necessarily a bad thing for an average Pole, but you really shouldn't expect any kind of independent politics from Poland under PO. Those politicians have a perfect slave mentality. Some people say that in an overwhelming majority of cases PO-men are either idiots (best case scenario) or traitors (worst case scenario, but probably much more common) and there are moments when I am inclined to believe them. Generally, Poland begins to look more and more like PRL (only instead of Moscow we have Brussels/Berlin now as our overlords.) There is one leading party, gathering more and more power, lackey press and television serving the leading party and resembling more and more communist "Trybuna Ludu" and "Dziennik Telewizyjny."
Come on Torq, you're not that stupid, surely?
The only reason PO is doing so well at the minute is because Kaczynski and friends can't seem to put up a decent opposition at all. There are *plenty* of people out there who don't like PO's Thatcherite policies, but because of PiS being so bloody useless, they have no alternative. People are screaming out for a moderate, "human face" version of PiS - look at Kaczynski's election campaign - it was absolutely brilliant and highlighted exactly what people wanted. But the party just cannot bring themselves to do it, for whatever reason.
The second that a party starts with a solid, sensible Catholic Socialism policy - it'll win in Poland. PO don't have that much talent in depth - look at their candidate for the Poznan President - he has about as much charisma as a wet duck. If they can't even get good candidates in place for such important elections, they're not that strong electorally.
Anyway, if Poland really was like the PRL, when can we expect to see the abuse of democracy by PO? Hasn't happened yet :(
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