History of hysteria. Fearing Poles is easy, the right makes it more effective

When Krzysztof Stanowski appears at the scene, tempted by the disturbance, and amazed to find that he sees nothing special, know that You're dealing with right-wing hysteria..

Stanowski expressed this surprise in a peculiar program broadcast live from the German border, specifically from Gryfin. Among the audience, you were middle-aged, very loudly commenting on the speakers. erstwhile Stanowski yet gave her the floor, the female began to tell her that she was afraid for her daughters due to rapes, looting, killings and another horrors. erstwhile Stanowski asked her if any of this had happened, a somewhat embarrassed female replied that she did not – but maybe.

The right has specialized in raising social panic, although the anti-script besides has considerable achievements in this field. This year we could – or we can inactive – observe 2 large increases on both sides of the barricade. erstwhile the most extremist part of those supporting the ruling majority alarmed for The alleged falsification of elections by... the opposition, the another hand of Robert Bąkiewicz caused panic in western border areas of Poland.

You could wave your hand on this political folklore if it did not lead to real damage. A sect from the sign of the "falsified elections", reaching out to the delegitimization of the officially given result, undermined Polish democracy in general and 1 of the last institutions of the country to which Poles and Poles inactive have confidence.

Right-wing extremists tracking people of a different skin colour on the border with Germany not only increase hostility in Poles to hundreds of thousands of legal, honest immigrants working here, but besides moved 1 step further to disband the Schengen Agreement erstwhile they succeeded in forcing Donald Tusk to introduce border controls on the Polish side. Although, for the sake of fairness, it must be added that the process of dismantling the Schengen Agreement has begun the fresh government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Both hysterias had their counterparts in the close past. The largest anti-immigrant increase occurred, of course, in the second half of 2015, erstwhile thousands of immigrants from Africa and the mediate East arrived all day to the coasts of Italy and Greece on makeshift boats and pontoons. I was inactive on my right hand at the time, so I could see this up close and wipe my eyes with amazement. Even the people I thought were rather reasonable, fell into specified an amok, as if all those Syrians, Afghans or Senegalese were making their way to a port in Gdańsk.

Eva Kopacz's government's approval to accept respective 1000 migrants was at the time so outraged that it contributed to the triumph of the Law and Justice. And just a fewer years later, the Law and Justice Government accepted respective 100 1000 immigrants from all over the planet all year without any verification of who they were – it was adequate that any employer declared their employment.

The examination of the results announced by the State Election Commission has already taken place in 2014, on the occasion of the local elections. Unexpectedly advanced PSL results (24%) in the election to provincial seymites, besides inconsistent with exit polli results, caused, among another things, the right-wing to call for "stop electoral manipulations". any demonstrators even entered the PKW headquarters.

The guilty was a ballot card in the form of a book, thanks to which the PSL committee, drawn first, picked up the voices of the confused voters who did not announcement that there were more parties. At the time, the Law and Justice Department argued that this was the consequence of deliberate forgery, as evidenced by over 17 percent of the invalid votes. The problem is that little than 17% of invalid votes were besides found in the elections to the territory councils, where the first on the list of PiS most likely won.

One of the most curiosistic examples of consciously awakened panic was carbon problems in 2022. erstwhile the Polish government blocked imports of coal from Russia, which was mainly sent to households heating their homes with their own furnaces, the network gradually became an atmosphere of hysteria. In late April, entrepreneurs even wrote a letter to the Prime Minister, informing of dramatic consequences for the population. Of course, this was watered with an appropriate dose of Eurosceptic sauce. "The increasing EU decarbonisation policy has led to a gradual simplification in coal production in the country for many years. Coal supply was decreasing much faster than demand, and the gap thus created was complemented by import coal, 80% from Russia" - wrote entrepreneurs in their letter.

As a result, social networking networks were simmering, and panic spread across the country – besides on people who neither utilized the net nor utilized coal furnaces. In the late spring, Polish and Poles threw themselves into buying coal, so prices in warehouses increased from a 1000 to as much as 4 1000 zlotys per tonne by August. The network was swarming with dramatic stories of afraid grandchildren showing how much their grandma had to pay for the coal needed to last the winter.

But what's so unusual that in the summertime they ran out of coal? No 1 buys coal in the mediate of the summertime unless it is simply a power plant, so the warehouses were not prepared for specified a abrupt increase in request at the time. The government began desperately to extract coal, even from South Africa and Australia. little than a year later the situation calmed down, and pellet price in April 2023 fell even below the price from April of the erstwhile year.

The most manipulated hysteria of the anti-script took place on the occasion of the announcement by the Moravian government tax improvement of the Polish Deal. It was intended, among another things, to pay the wellness contribution of well-earned entrepreneurs, introducing a taxation proportional to income alternatively of a lump sum, and, in addition, abolishing the anticipation of deducting it from tax. At the same time, however, the improvement increased respective times the amount free up to PLN 30 000, so they were to lose only entrepreneurs on the linear, who do not benefit from the free amount – that is, the best earners in the country.

Liberal mainstream media immediately stood up for unjustified business privileges. "The fresh taxation strategy is intended to introduce fair rules according to the Law and Justice. In the meantime, what will be worth it? Do nothing. And it's best to retire. Or be a farmer’ – wrote in “Gazeta Wyborcza” Piotr Mączyński. The material in a akin speech was full in both written media and tv – especially on TVN24. As a consequence by study The majority of Poles were opposed to change and only 1 5th supported it. meantime by calculation CenEA centre on planned changes by the PiS government was to lose 1.4 million households (of which only 400 1000 more than 250 PLN per month), but 11 million households were to gain more than 10 PLN per month. The improvement was regularly presented as a taxation increase, although the full net profit of Poles and Poles was to be PLN 5 billion a year, so it was a far-reaching reduction.

As the Polish Lada later charged PiS with the election result, Rafal Trzaskowski was harmed by the alleged removal of crosses in Warsaw offices. The writing media were so boring about it, and politicians and commentaries close to the PiS reminded them of it on 1 breath with an allegedly EU-planned bug eating order. However, the town hall's guidelines afraid only the rooms where residents were admitted, and then an authoritative explanation of the Capital Magistrate appeared that it was only fresh or renovated rooms. This did small – the removal of crosses stuck to Trzaskowski, giving him a patch of a militant atheist.

Trzaskowski was besides harmed by the affair with the right-wing study of cities associated with the C40 Cities initiative, which besides includes Warsaw. The study deals with reducing greenhouse gas emissions in metropolitan areas and shows the impact of consumption on its level. It besides indicates that it would be perfect for urban residents to consume a maximum of 16 kg of meat per year, respective times more than on average in Poland (about 70 kg). On the right side, the media started accusing Trzaskowski of a plan to introduce cards on meat products.

Meanwhile, the study prepared by scientists from Leeds has no binding power, only indicates the perfect to effort to get closer to. Nor does it propose any orders and prohibitions in this regard, nor do Polish local governments have any instruments to introduce them.

Another example of right-wing hysteria overturned the school introduction task the subject of wellness education. 1 of many elements of this subject was to convey cognition about sexuality. Class IV–VI students were to learn the full basics about sexual organs or the pregnancy process, as well as receive advice that could aid them avoid harassment. The subject of sex as such—for example, the question of informed consent—was to appear only in grades VII and VIII, erstwhile sexual initiation frequently occurs. But the right She's in conventional hysteria., and on 1 December 2024, a rather many and highly emotional demonstration was held in Warsaw under the eloquent slogan “Yes for education, not for depravity!”. Among another things, she was supported by the candidate at the time, and now by president Elekt Karol Nawrocki.

The right has extended experience in generating unjustified hysteria. I mean, there's inactive area for exchange. opposition to vaccination COVID – as well as vaccinations in general – has already led to a failure of opposition to measles in Poland (by UNICEF). PiS demonstrates the Green Deal for Agriculture, although it is mostly by the illustrious author Janusz Wojciechowski, who is very sensible.

The devil with the large eyes besides became EU trade agreement with Mercosur countrieswhich could be a rescue for the European industry, on which the Polish economy is based. This agreement became another slogan cast completely without reasoning and knowing the substance by right-wing politicians and commentaries. It is adequate to say that Karol Nawrocki spoke during the pre-election debates "the Mercosur Agreement", thus betraying the complete ignorance of the matter.

It's very hard to win against specified an opponent. This requires excellent substantive preparation, for which non-righteous politicians seemingly do not have the strength and desire. The anti-script besides showed with its successive intensifications, specified as hysteria about alleged falsification of elections or manipulated opposition to the taxation improvement of the Polish Deal, that he besides can fabricate and scare. However, it happens that even it does much worse than the Polish right.