The Good News from Poland By Richard Miler

     Cheer up – some good news, it is not all grim and black pilled. Take Poland for example:
  https://vdare.com/articles/meanwhile-a-white-pill-in-poland-national-conservatives-triumph-in-election

“The Main Stream Media is horrified at Polish President Andrzej Duda’s July 13 re-election, warning once again of a “far-right” agenda that endangers everything the Great and the Good hold dear. Duda is a National Conservative: a culture warrior who didn’t just offer rhetoric. He offered tangible economic help to Poles, who rewarded him on Election Day. It’s a lesson President Donald Trump must learn. Andrzej Duda and the Law and Justice Party (PiS) didn’t just win, they beat  a “center-right” party, Rafal Trzaskowski’s Civic Platform, in the runoff. Though this is an imperfect comparison, it was roughly the equivalent of Pat Buchanan defeating Marco Rubio. Which is why the Anglosphere media reacted with the same stunned fury that would ensue if a socially conservative Catholic nationalist triumphed in the U.S.

•    Poland re-elects presidents who creates ‘dangerous’ society for gays, advocates say, by Tim Fitzsimons, NBC News, July 13, 2020
•    Polish president Duda narrowly wins reelection, enabling the continuation of a far-right agenda, by Loveday Morris, Rick Noack, and Dariusz Kalan, Washington Post, July 13, 2020
•    Trump ally Andrez Duda wins Poland’s presidential election, by Frederik Pleitgen, CNN, July 13, 2020

And social conservatism obviously did play a part in Duda’s victory, as did opposition to the European Union’s post-Christian diktats. The Atlantic cailed that “Poland’s Rulers Made Up a ‘Rainbow Plague” and used this “dominant theme” as their key to re-election [by Anne Applebaum, July 14, 2020]. Of course, “advocates” and “human rights groups” all have a vested interested in overthrowing the Polish government because the kind of Woke regime they want is the kind that rules the U.S. today. Here, political power no longer lies with elected officials, but with the media, the courts, the NGOs and government and private-sector bureaucrats. Thus corporate America and sinister oligarchs subsidize radical movements, cities burn, statues fall, laws are ignored or selectively enforced. The supposedly authoritarian President Donald Trump seems utterly helpless. But Hungary has already shown a different model of government. A nationalist leader backed by the people governs. Hysterical journalists, legislating judges and shadowy subversives are sidelined. It’s not surprising Hungary’s Viktor Orban congratulated Duda on his victory. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto also mocked the “international liberal mainstream” who had “tried everything” but failed to take down the “central European right wing” [Hungarian government congratulates Duda on Polish election victory, by Marton Dunai, Reuters, July 13, 2020].

Immigration is a powerful presence in this struggle. Both Poland and Hungary have resisted attempts by the European Union to force them to accept more “migrants” from the Third World. Ben Sixsmith explains in the U.K. Spectator that although Law and Justice supporters may rule, they still feel that they are rebels against a powerful international system. And they are right: These Poles know they are viewed as the “problem child” of Europe by most of its political and corporate institutions, and that media and non-governmental organisations are committed to promoting progressive values. This is no secret. Here, for example, is a report from the Open Society Foundation, which describes how legal cases brought through the European Court of Human Rights are “used relentlessly by local advocates, international human rights groups, Members of the European Parliament, United Nations human rights bodies, and many others” to promote the liberalisation of ‘reproductive rights policies’. While this article reveals ongoing attempts to punish Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic for refusing to accept migrants from North Africa in 2015. No one is obliged to admire the rebellious stance of Poland in Europe – “rebel”, after all, is a neutral term in and of itself – but it is a rebellious stance.

Still, Duda’s victory wasn’t just about culture and demographics. Poland, like Hungary, also provides tangible economic incentives for Affordable Family Formation. This had a significant impact on the election. In Poland, the government provides about $125 per child per month for every Polish family. “Many Polish families have been lifted out of poverty as a result of the government’s policies, and, for the first time since the end of communism in 1989, feel there is party that cares about their needs,” the BBC admitted. Duda started  as “relatively unknown member” of the European parliament, and won the Presidency “after promising social programs for the country’s oldest and poorest voters,” said Politico, and this year, social conservatism mixed with “continued generous social welfare programs” defined the campaign [Poland’s Duda secures another 5 years as president: preliminary result, by Zosia Wanat, Politico, July 13, 2020]. “The PiS’s child cash transfer, which [Civic Platform’s] Trazaskowski supports too, along with higher pension payments and other measures have been hugely popular,” wrote Therese Raphael in Bloomberg, though she sneered Duda was “saved by rural voters where levels of education and earnings are much lower” [Poland’s Vote Is a Warning to Americans, Too, July 13, 2020]. Duda and Law and Justice are moving to rein in the courts and the media, the two ways subversives can try to undermine the nationalist regime. Hopefully, in this way he can keep the next generation from being completely corrupted by the Left. He’s also going to be pursuing infrastructure projects, including building a major Polish airport and  digging a canal through a Vistula Split, one of the key issues that divided him from his center-right opponent, Rafal Trzaskowski, who seems to considered a Polish airport  and a Polish canal too nationalist. [4 takeaways from Duda’s reelection as Polish president, by Zosia Wanat, Politico, July 13, 2020]. This will provide new jobs during a time of global recession.”

     Poland has pursued nationalist programs that Trump, for example promised, but never delivered. This shows that nationalism still is a winner, if only there is the guts to pursue it. Trump, and other so-called Western leaders, needs to take note.