This is the best summary I could come up with:
Its convention in Katowice on Saturday, billed as its largest ahead of parliamentary elections on Oct. 15, was aimed at energizing more voters and at playing down antisemitism and other extreme views among some of its members.
No matter what happens on election day, Confederation has already altered the central European nation’s relationship with neighboring Ukraine, which is fighting for its survival against a brutal invasion from Russia.
Like other European hard-right parties, Confederation not only opposes vaccine mandates and mass migration, it is also hostile to LGBTQ+ people and skeptical on climate change.
It says it prefers tax cuts over cash handouts, a stance that appeals to some small business owners and adults with no children who are paying into the system but not seeing the money flow back to them.
Mentzen, who runs a brewery, also faced allegations of racism in 2021 by producing a beer called “White IPA Matters.” He said it was just a humorous reference to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States.
Wojciech Przybylski, editor-in-chief of Visegrad Insight, a policy journal focused on Central Europe, said that extremist voters only make up a small fraction of Polish society.
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When politics fail on an epic scale, when politicians rather do nothing but drive off voters, the extremists rise.
The thing is that Russia for years has had their fingers on the scales to one degree or another in most of the countries it considers to be “adversaries” (read: any country in the EU or NATO) in various manners both illegal and technically legal, and we just haven’t done a fucking thing about it.
That’s the thing with the image of an enemy: it’s like a habit, apparently, and it’s the easy way to control people: over fear. I want to believe that we all on this insignificant planet (on cosmic scale) will overcome that at one point and grow up a little bit. As humans, not as a member of that anachronistic idea of nations.
Of course, one is.
It’s bankrolled and promoted by Putin via his troll farms online. They all are. It’s his ace in the hole to stop helping Ukraine
That’s overly simplistic and unhelpful. Economic stress has caused a lot of growth in right wing extremism… ignoring the role that neoliberal capitalism has played will just fuel their bullshit.
Also the polish state-run media, especially public tv has broadcast right wing talking points to every television in Poland for almost a decade now. Not to mention the social media campaigns.
Full of hate and fear against women, refugees and lgbtq people. It plays right into the messaging of this party, that pretends to be against PiS but is actually controlled opposition.
What is the difference between this Party and PiS? Just their stance on Ukraine, the rest is the same?
Konfederosja is playing all possible cards. Liberals, nationalism, monarchy, capitalism. Anything that is not farmed by PiS, Konfederosja will try it. Anything and everything goes. You literally have to have zero self reflection to vote for them.
PiS is social nationalism for old people. They literally peddle Nazism to old people.
Blyat!
