politically connected fat cats
Like PiS? No need to defend them; they lost in Warsaw. Mayor Trzaskowski won.
You may as well get over it, moaning about your favourite party having lost in Warsaw, not that it's anything to do with you since you live about as far away as it's physically possible to get from Poland without actually leaving the planet.
Stop obsessing about those Germans at last!!! You see them everywhere!!! Even under your bed??
It's a typical PiS rise when things are going bad for them. And right now, things are going very bad for them and are likely to get worse. Thee are senior figures connected to that circle that are just that little bit too positive over the decades with r*SSia, and they know they can't keep a lid on that for ever.
your parents must be turning in their grave
They're alive, reasonably well and voted Conservative last time. Don't assume that everyone from an industrial town gets their hands dirty or keeps coal in the bath. As for 'working class friends' the only ones of those I have are in Poland. And they don't vote for PiS either.
Stop obsessing about those Germans at last!!! You see them everywhere!!! Even under your bed??