Not many people here or on any social media know or care about this and that's a shame. But maybe, instead of reblogging one of the hundred posts again of people begging US Americans to go vote and also not vote for the orange rapist wannabe-dictator next year, we can reblog this.
Today (Dec 11th), it's finally decided, Poland will get a new government. The current ruling party PiS failed to get enough votes in parliament to continue their governing coalition. Instead a new coalition of opposition parties under Donald Tusk now gets the chance to form a government.
Polish people did that! They showed us that it is possible to stop the spiral into authoritarianism.
On October 15th they got up and voted, over 74% of them, the highest voter turnout (for free elections) in Polish history.
People realized where their country was heading, and a huge number of them mobilized and organized and said this has to be stopped. They said no to their current reactionary, misogynistic, anti-abortion, xenophobic, anti-european, anti-democratic, right-wing government.
The majority of the people voted yes for change, for progress, for democracy.
Barely anyone outside of Poland is paying attention to or talking about what is happening there and that's a great pitty and also pretty frustrating.
Especially since so many countries in Europe see a rise of right-wing, populist parties (recent example the Netherlands, like, really wtf?) - which is deeply concerning, alarming even.
And it makes what the Polish people achieved even more astonishing and admirable.
All countries, but especially those where democracy is threatened or seems lost already, should take note and take it as an example. There's still hope.
