Walter's Famous German Language Essentials Guide

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On Friday, 29 April 2016 at 09:07:47 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> It might be difficult with your daily
> experience in Berlin to look at the world from above, but if
> you do it should become obvious looking at Turkey, Russia,
> Poland, Austria and Germany's own past or Donald Trump, that
> if we let these people take over, everyone loses.
> So what's your way forward without becoming a nationalist,
> narrow-minded society like the one you criticize?

What a lovely broad brush you have here. It's not like anything 
else is going on in any of those countries - it's all nationalism 
and narrow-mindedness and you're so virtuous and enlightened to 
point it all out.

I'm going to speak for Poland because I live here and I've spent 
significant amount of time to try and figure out what the hell is 
going on in our politics. You know, because I actually vote here.

The goverment was changed because the last one did not deliver on 
it's promises and there were many scandals involving it. Just 
this week there was a leak with recording of past govt 
representative asking one of the richest buisnessmen in the 
country to intervene in an independent newspaper to make it more 
govt friendly. And mysteriously the head of the newspaper was 
fired after the chat took place. Hopefully with the new govt 
these things won't happen anymore, when they do it's likely we'll 
have another govt change.

The party which lost last elections still has a strong position 
in EU parlament (their representative is the president of EU 
council) and from there they make campaign about the new 
goverment to delegitimize it. Yeah, it's a shitty move, but out 
politicians can't see past next 4 years so they don't care for 
ruining reputation of the country. Ironically, this tactic was 
also used by party currently in power in Poland, but it was much 
less effective. We have really shitty politicians.

Last elections were not a result of sudden "nationalism" and 
"narrow-mindedness" emerging. The winning party didn't emphasize 
migration crisis much, they were much more focused on social 
issues. Their sollution is to redistribute money more, I 
personally disagree with that, so I hope they'll lose power in 
next elections. Still, there were parties which emphasized 
stopping migration much more, they didn't even make it to the 
parliament. Poland took refugees from Ukraine and Caucassus while 
EU didn't give a shit. Nationalism my ass.