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NB - the notion of rabid nationalism as having declined to a small minority is a sad joke for anyone observing Poland today. Imagine a government made up of a mix of de-Villiers and Le Pen ( in the context of much weaker norms of political correctness), with the main opposition as the more hardline nationalist Gaullists, add a strong mix of fundy political Catholicism which openly describes Franco's Spain circa nineteen forty something as their ideological wet dream, statues going up to Poland's most prominent fascist in the center of Warsaw to great acclaim governmental (and the dismissal of those who find that just a bit objectionable as self-hating Poles or sellouts to the West or Stalinists or conscious agents of Satan), and you'll begin to get an idea.
by MarekNYC on Fri Dec 8th, 2006 at 06:23:58 PM EST
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Given the very low participation in the last elections, the thing I wonder about is how much this reflects popular thinking.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Dec 8th, 2006 at 06:32:00 PM EST
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Given the very low participation in the last elections, the thing I wonder about is how much this reflects popular thinking.

Who knows. I'd imagine that those who don't vote are less political than the others - whether vaguely social-liberal young people in the thriving cities or vaguely fundy in the impoverished countryside. Though there's also increasingly the question of the effect of mass migration to Western Europe on voting patterns. That probably hurts the PO most of all - much younger than average, and somewhat more educated, and young university educated people are the PO's strongest demographic.

by MarekNYC on Fri Dec 8th, 2006 at 07:32:26 PM EST
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