An informative piece a year after the right-wing nationalist takeover in Poland. There are two distinctive ingredients to developments there: first, a commitment to a real social welfare state (including, e.g., cash payments to families with children); and second, conservative Catholic social views. It's the latter that is responsible for a lot of the wickedness afoot in Poland, though the pattern is familiar. Until orthodox religiosity of whatever stripe dies out, humanity will be at risk, alas.
ADDENDUM: Or as RAWA put it: "Fundamentalism is the mortal enemy of all civilized humanity."
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