Lewicki: What times, specified and patriots!

Last Friday, while talking to journalists in the Sejm, Donald Tusk outlined his political plans extending to the election in 2027. He besides made a political assessment of the scene and divided it according to his view: “This dispute is black and white from my point of view. There are 2 sentences – here is 1 line. On that side, erstwhile it comes to Poland, there is the PiS, Confederation, (Grzegorz) Braun. And on this side are the Democrats, the patriots (...)". As you can see, Tusk continues to usage the old method of sharing and trying to set his opponent in a position where he could be attacked more easily. For what else does it mean that on this side, or Tuska, there are “democrats, patriots”? More or less, that on the another side, where there is “PiS, Confederacy, Braun”, these democrats and patriots are not to be.

It is not worth arguing with Tusk’s statement, but alternatively to look at what patriots are on his side. On the same day that Donald Tusk discovered patriots on his side, “Rzeczpospolita” described the survey that IBRIS conducted. It was about declarations concerning behaviour in the event of aggression against Poland. The respondents answered not only about their plans in the event of the threat of Poland, but besides about their political sympathy, which is besides how they voted in the parliamentary elections in 2023, as well as in the fresh presidential elections. So we have the chance to learn how the "patriots" who support the presently ruling camp would behave in specified a situation.

Two categories of exclusive answers are peculiarly interesting: those who declare that in specified a case they would effort to escape, either abroad, or to a safe place in Poland, and those who would be willing to volunteer to service in military, paramilitary, sanitary formations, or would wait for specified a appointment. And here we have very different answers about Mr Tusk's "patriots" and "not patriots" from the opposition. In the first case, concerning sympathizers of the ruling camp (KO+PL2050+PSL+Levice), as much as 47% of them declare that they would run away, and only 28% would volunteer for service or wait for appointment. In the case of opposition (PiS, Confederacy, KKP, Together) these proportions are rather the opposite. Only 29 percent would want to escape, but 58 percent would be in the ranks of formations fighting aggression.

The author of the text in “Rzeczpospolita” summarizes the paragraph concerning the answer to the question, who are people who would escape from Poland if aggression occurred? "In the fresh parliamentary elections they voted mostly for the Civic Coalition and in the presidential election for Rafał Trzaskowski". any unusual ones, then, are those "patriots" on which Donald Tusk refers. And this is not even about the fact that individual wants to attribute to them a small patriotic attitude and a desire to escape at the time of the threat of Poland. They themselves declare specified an attitude in the study, that is, they consider it appropriate and are not even ashamed of it. 1 could say, paraphrased by Cicero, that what times, yes and patriots. Especially those patriots on the side of the current rulers.

Stanisław Lewicki