[throwaway123x2]

Oof sounds like such a weird thing to happen in Poland of all places... I mean you guys saw first hand what xenophobia and fascism do in WW2. Poland should be the bastion of western liberalism, not whatever it is becoming now...

[vasco]

And then they had to endure another few decades of occupation, putting them behind the rest of western Europe and creating a feeling of abandonment by the rest of Europe. It's common to forget that for some countries WW2 lasted in the form of occupation all the way up to 1989.

[dahfizz]

Maybe decades of occupation made them realize they value their own culture and identity more than some woke Twitter user's western "liberalism". Maybe close experience with totalitarianism makes them skeptical of current western "liberalism".

[throwaway123x2]

So... they want to go back to totalitarianism? That doesn't make a lot of sense. I get wanting to keep your culture and identity... but not at this price for people who were paying that price 3 decades ago.

[pzduniak]

It's just the crap that's peddled by the government to get the votes. Scare them! First year your enemy is the current government, third year it's the gays, sixth year it's the muslims (who don't want to stay in the country at all), you sprinkle in some antisemitism (the evil jewish claims!!11) and suddenly you radicalize a fifth of the population. Oops!

Right now is probably the toughest moment for them. We have a really nice Omicron wave and their tax reform that went into effect on Jan 1st (primarily shifting money from local government, where opposition controls the largest cities, to healthcare) has failed extremely spectacularly. They ignored the whole process and the laws are overcomplicated (yet broken) crap, increasing the tax burden on most people. Oops!