[sebow]

And the rest of the countries are?Give me a break.If you're from Poland I find it funny if you're that surprised.But judging from the fact that you're probably not, and you post cnn/irishtimes sources for news about EE, you probably don't understand how things work around here.You're right about some things but being partially right or not seeing the entire picture doesn't mean much of anything.

Yes there's less distinction between the church and the state, that goes in almost every ex-eastern bloc country.Happens here in other countries aswell.Every country has it's shit hidden somewhere, in EE it just stinks more because we don't have money to spray some perfume. The Media is owned by politicians entirely and guess what: that still doesn't do much.You have western[to be read: foreign-imported] rhetoric everywhere, and that makes people still support these 'evil' politicians.So in retrospective you're kind of wrong, because democracy is exactly the thing that put in power the people you don't like.It's a Streisand effect mainly in response to foreign influence that keeps these corrupt politicians in power, because more often than not the alternative is a puppet who knows even less.[By the way is not an excuse for them being corrupt & scummy, i'm just giving a quick rundown to establish these things are not artificial]

Also if you want a free advice: you don't "beat" PiS or any other party that's well-established by crying out corruption, because that's just a lost cause.[You can look at the figure representing european justice right now -- who's from EE -- who correctly stated that there's no difference between EE/WE corruption]; You beat it by recognizing the policies you advocate them don't resonate with the people, and make compromises where necessary.