Isn't your current government hated by most Poles anyway?
Well
it's complicated.
1)About 80-90% of Poles in the polls
lol: ) think that Kaczynski is *THE* worst prime minister Poland ever had. And they make fun of him
... and his brother Lech, President of Poland:
However...
2)His party won last elections, and it takes a people to win. Actually, it takes one rich priest running Radio Holy Mary to tell millions of old people listening to vote for "Law and Justice" because that's so kool name for a party, and above all - because everything apart that is liberal, and and liberals are (quote from "Nasz Dziennik" - newspaper, also run by him): "immoral people, false ideologists, disguised criminals, bandits, public thieves, degenerates, mafioso, socio-political bands, pseudo-teachers, people without personality, egoists, sons of Kingdom of Satan, their majesties, unlawfull elements, post-comunists, masons, enemies of catholicism, evil ones, wrongdoers, damned, spiders, oligarchs, pseudo-Poles, false-political right" (I made a reasearch at my studies on semantics of "liberals" in newspapers during the elections)
But he also needed to form a coalition with more radical parties:
Andrzej Lepper's peasant (Poland is still one of the countries with peasants instead of farmers, but the things change rapidly now, after joining EU) Self-defence Party:
... and Ultra-Catholic party - League of Polish Families, which leaders are Giertych family. Giertych Jr. was (he had been sacked) minister of education, trying to abolish teaching of theory of evolution in schools, and to impose compulsory catholic religion lessons with mark counting for overall education mean of marks.
His father - Giertych Sr. is known for speaches in European Parliament against Germans, Jews, homosexuals and -also- Darwinism. They are descendants of Inter-War Polish diplomat Jędrzej Giertych, also known for his anti-semitism.
Yes, they are bunch of freaks, who won parl. elections in 2005, with 46% of votes, giving them 245 of 460 seats, and also presidential elections month later.
But here is the word of explanation about that:
It doesn't mean that 46% of Poles support them. Together they got 5,5 mln votes out of 27 mln possible. AND, actually, it was a surprise to all that Kaczynski brothers didn't form government together with conservative liberals (second place party - 24% votes) who they called "friends" for almost 2 years. 80% of people wanted them to work together. Instead we got populist and fundamentalist radicals.
Personally, I think that it's more complicated to say what ideology Poles actually do believe in. It's not true that all of the people are poorly educated, aggresive, Jew-hating, gay-bashing religious zealots (the Western stereotypical view of Poles). I'd rather say that it could be put like that:
-50% living in small [edit: towns] and villages, 50% living in the cities;
-95% declared as catholics. 40% practicing catholic actually, 60% close to atheism or agnosticism (probably only country with so many people "not believing but practicing" - to look good amongst neighbourhood)
-15% post-communist left, 20% neo-conservative, 25% radicals (fascist, communist, catholic fundamentalists), 40% hates politics and never goes to vote (they just think it's all around the same, and nothing would change).
The major problem is that the people, who believe that anything could be changed about Poland, are leaving for United Kingdom or other EU countries (mostly because of better jobs, better earnings, intolerance and rising power of stupid/authoritarian politicians in Poland).
To some degree the situation is similar to that in United States, although more radical and with more possible options. Currently it's like a struggle between two factions of same strenght - those looking back into the past, and those looking forward. That's all what is to be said about modern Poland, I think.
