tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2650609952674727820.post4827452122652565762..comments2024-03-27T15:55:32.875+01:00Comments on W-wa Jeziorki: Making sense of Andrzej Duda's winMichael Dembinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05657728002439035765noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2650609952674727820.post-43402946946452987672015-06-04T08:47:38.117+02:002015-06-04T08:47:38.117+02:00there are many reasons why Poland has been and wil...there are many reasons why Poland has been and will continue to be a financially poor country. Complacency amongst the elite has been common place for centuries - replace aristocracy for POand the result is the same.<br />Culture outside a very small minority of Poles is to work as little as possible. Look at the escape from Warsaw every Friday lunchtime since May, the extended holidays for kids which requre some form of parental supervision, a lack of toughness at dealing with closed shops and vested interests. Poland has rode its luck during the economic crisis; a large internal market, repatriation of billions from the diaspora and EU funds on a massive scale. The country needs a reality check but alas unless their is a seismic cultural shift Poland will continue to be an also ran Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2650609952674727820.post-46284957460686441402015-06-01T11:54:09.999+02:002015-06-01T11:54:09.999+02:00It is amazing that 25 years after the transformati...It is amazing that 25 years after the transformations young people once again believe in miracles and that the State can create wealth. It cannot, all it can do is destroy wealth.<br /><br />My own definition of a politician is a person who knows better than I how to spend my money.<br /><br />Of course the State has a role to play in providing defence, education, the police, primary health care. But it cannot create real jobs.<br /><br />My own bug bear is the Catholic Church which tells its adherants that someone else is responsable for their misfortune be it "gender", PO, the devil whatever. Interesting that the parts of Poland which have achieved success (the Western part) have a strong tradition of Weber's Protestant work ethic (God helps those who help themselves).<br /><br />And yes PO complacency is largely to blame.AndrzejKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2650609952674727820.post-87263587810047904412015-05-28T19:17:47.501+02:002015-05-28T19:17:47.501+02:00@ Student SGH
1) The działka jibe referred to the...@ Student SGH<br /><br />1) The <i>działka</i> jibe referred to the <i>first</i> round rather than the decisive one. Turnout was eight percentage points lower, and my guess is that the bulk of that was PO electorate. I'm at fault here myself, being in London at the time (and being on a training course all that Sunday I couldn't have slipped out to vote even if I had registered to do so). <br /><br />2) The 'rockman' electorate. Their 'smash-the-system' stance will come back to haunt them if on Mr Duda's coattails the nation re-elects another PiS government with Messrs Kaczyński and Macierewicz in charge of the country, aided and abetted by various befrocked characters from Torun and Jasna Góra.<br /><br /> Michael Dembinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05657728002439035765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2650609952674727820.post-55484587918736058562015-05-28T13:42:58.547+02:002015-05-28T13:42:58.547+02:00Actually a decent posting with rightly set diagnos...Actually a decent posting with rightly set diagnoses, yet two things need to be underlined...<br /><br />1. It is not the idle PO-voting elite who didn't both to return from <i>działki</i> - the turnout of more than 55% disproves this reasoning, and why elite - I know many examples of nascent middle class representatives who hitherto voted for PO but this time backed Mr Duda<br /><br />2. The supporters of the rockman are by denifition against status quo. Mr Kukiz's voters wish to, at any price, overthrow the current political elite, so no wonder they voted for Mr Duda, despite his catholic leanings and only to topple Mr Komorowski, then a member of the ruling elite.<br /><br />Plus the widespread opinion is that not all Poles have fallen for Mr Duda and his hollow promises and feigned smile. They wanted show the red card to the party which has wielded power for eight years and has got too attached to their stools.<br /><br />It will be mean what I say but in general those who voted for Mr Komorowski by paying taxes fund the benefits of those voting for Mr Duda.<br /><br />PO is now desperately trying to get their act together and IMHO they won't. Unless Mr Duda screws it up all the way in the first weeks of his presidency, PO will lose the parliamentary election and will fall apart since nothing except for lust for power keeps them together. Sad might be our fate. I can turn a blind eye on putting a monument commerating Smolensk crash outside the presidential palace, I only fear silly economic decisions.student SGHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01367244307612092688noreply@blogger.com