My comment on the article We’ll tear up EU treaties, say Hungary and Poland by Jack Parrock in The Times, 27 November 2020.
Poland is an evolved Communist dictatorship. Its day-to-day operations are run in pretty much the same mode as before 1990. The so-called ‘transition to democracy’ of 1989-90 was a transition to a fake, simulated democracy.
The current ‘nationalist’ turn is fake as well. From 2008 to 2010, I was a member of the currently ruling PiS party. I could see from inside, how fake, dull, and controlled it was. Its meetings were scripted. There was no real activity.
This is virtual politics. Polit-soap opera.
I also observed how scripted, fake, and controlled was the life of the university, where I worked until 2015. Regardless of the type of government in power, it operated as under Communism 1.0. Now this was a newer, slightly more colourful version. Communism 2.0. Personnel decisions were seemingly illogical. As I gradually learned, decisions were logical, but following an unofficial, hidden logic. Explanations put forward were fake. Nobody was bothered with daily breaking of rules, law, or common sense.
@LechSBorkowski