Many things frustrated and annoyed me. For example, anti-immigrant rhetoric or “hiding” radical politicians during the campaign and promoting those who may give the impression of being moderate. I finally decided I’d had enough of it. After the 2015 parliamentary elections, I stopped monitoring news about politics on an ongoing basis.
Of course, I received the most important information. Moreover, in the following years I participated in elections. However, I did not go into details, I did not read opinion weeklies, I did not watch journalistic programs, I did not go to demonstrations. And I thought it would always be like this. It seemed to me that you could easily live at a relatively good standard without devoting your free time to politics.
And I’m really not surprised at people who think the same way. I know perfectly well that Polish politics can be annoying and frustrating. However, after many years, I do not think that distancing ourselves from this topic is a good step. In particular, it seems unwise to me to resign from voting.
I can save less each month
Pericles said, “Just because you are not interested in politics does not mean that politics will not be interested in you.” Despite the passage of time, these words remain relevant. I experienced this firsthand. As I mentioned, it seemed to me that I could live peacefully at a relatively good level without getting emotional and concerned about politics. However, when at some point I started to notice that despite no change in my shopping habits and slightly better earnings, I could save less each month than in the past, it started to frustrate me. I often travel abroad and I don’t see prices in Western countries changing as much as in our country. I remember that when I visited Berlin for the first time in 2012, it seemed to me that it was terribly expensive. Currently, prices in Warsaw are very similar. Of course, I don’t have to mention the differences in earnings. I am afraid that if this trend continues, in some time few of us will be able to afford to live in Poland.
We have something to fear
However, the events of 2020 played the biggest role in my “waking up”. Changes in the abortion law have made me and most of the women I know no longer feel safe in this country. Many of us began to postpone the decision to become mothers because of the restrictive law. In the following years, the deaths of several women (Izabela from Pszczyna, Agnieszka from Częstochowa, and Dorota from Bochnia) made us realize that the threat was serious and that we really had something to fear.
Politicians prepared all this for us. I don’t know how, after such changes and dramatic events, as a woman, you can not vote. And according to media reports, every second of us aged between 18 and 39 does not intend to vote.
I guess that for those in power, such people who are unaware and uninterested in politics are the best. But let’s not do that to ourselves. Because even if politics does not significantly influence our lives now, it is not impossible that this will change in the future.
Source: Gazeta
Bruce is a talented author and journalist with a passion for entertainment . He currently works as a writer at the 247 News Agency, where he has established himself as a respected voice in the industry.
