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Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]
Even if PiS wins, they won`t be able to help those who already lost hope. Nobody is. Sad, but true.
That's the sad part. There's nothing PiS can do for people that won't help themselves.
Out of pure curiosity: will the thread be closed on Saturday and Sunday to conform to pre-vote election silence rule?
Screw that, I hate that rule. :(
That it what PO wants you to think but there a lot of young peep in Poland who support PiS and not they are not all from Toruń.
There are a lot of uneducated young people who fall for the stuff that PiS says - who don't have the education to understand that PiS will do next to nothing because there simply isn't the money to do so. They fall for the slogans that Kaczynski uses - of course they do, it's attractive to a young person who doesn't work/isn't a student to hear that things will be better under PiS. Of course, the truth is that PiS will utterly ignore them - how many uneducated young people 'made it' under the last PiS government? Now - compare to the rapid rise of the former boss of TVP, for instance.
I would say the younger generation who does go for PO are those who like to have a good time, do not care a whole lot about the country [i.e they'll live anywhere as long as they have a nice life] and think PO is cool, hip and 'in the now' because they like to play football and 'have a laugh' sometimes.
My God, you really don't know much about Poland if you think that. PO voters tend to be the ones who put a lot of effort into themselves - people who are willing to work long hours to get ahead in life, as well as studying hard - and sure, they party hard too, but they usually work for it. They don't blame the country, in fact, they're willing to work hard to achieve in spite of the State.
PO has never been "hip, cool and 'now'" - it merely offered stability and a future for young people who were ambitious. These people didn't want to live in a country where witchhunts and nepotism ruled.
As for an ealier post I saw about how PiS only has 'psycho' people who vote for them, why is it that if you are a patriot and stand up for your beliefs, you're proud of the country, want it to be prosperous and are perhaps slightly suspicious of neighbours, who have in the past, done bad things to you, you are seen as a 'nacjonalista' and 'extremist?'
These people aren't patriots. Perhaps you don't see it in the UK, but these people are often the least patriotic people - after all, they were screaming unpatriotic abuse about the Prime Minister and the President, they were openly calling for a coup d'etat, they were willing to hurt Polish interests to push their own agenda - and very often, they are/were quite happy to falsely claim disability benefits while working illegally.
These people also want it to be prosperous, but they want other people to do the hard work for them. They aren't interested in knuckling down and working hard - they want to be able to go to work for 8 hours in an easy job and get a flat, a car, holidays - everything. PO voters are the exact opposite - they want it, but they know that they need to work for it.
Incidentally - as for PiS themselves - many of them are simply opportunists who are taking advantage of their voters. Ask yourself - how many people of humble peasant background are in the Sejm from PiS, and how many are actually lawyers and suchlike?
