For your reading ’pleasure’ : Poland lurches right
ugh…. and it only took the “make Poland great again” cretins a year:
In the land of Law and Justice, anti-intellectualism is king. Polish scientists are aghast at proposed curriculum changes in a new education bill that would downplay evolution theory and climate change and add hours for “patriotic” history lessons. In a Facebook chat, a top equal rights official mused that Polish hotels should not be forced to provide service to black or gay customers. After the official stepped down for unrelated reasons, his successor rejected an international convention to combat violence against women because it appeared to argue against traditional gender roles.
It would behoove us to watch how this came to pass- alliances with conservative religion, huge direct cash subsidies to large families [ a direct contribution to traditional conservative catholics], indirect subsidies by rolling back non carbon power programs and ramping up jobs in [what else?] COAL!
man- looks like I picked a bad year to give up my scheduled lobotomy…..