Opole is a free zone from Kowalski’s “Janusz of Polish politics”!

Opole is a free zone from Kowalski’s “Janusz of Polish politics”!

I was very surprised today, how many people in Opole live because “Janusz of Polish politics” Kowalski was outside PiS.

I’m writing this very seriously, because in my bubble that man simply doesn’t exist. He never did anything interesting, he has no real position politically and he never decided on anything really important either. To many people, because of his screaming, slapping on the glass and constant attempts to push themselves in front of the cameras, it may seem to be an important politician. But in my opinion, Janusz Kowalski is really a nobody in Polish politics. Loud, tiring, aggressive, but still no one.

That’s why I learned something about Kowalski for the first time in years and commented on it only when his alleged resignation from PiS appeared. Earlier, I really didn’t see any reason to pay attention to him, because I think the worst thing you can do with such characters is to pump their recognition.

But today on a walk I was surprised how many people in Opole live with the troubles of “Janusz of Polish politics”. I wasn’t surprised that many people enjoy these troubles, because Kowalski in Opole is a very disliked figure. To put it mildly, for most thinking people, he is embarrassed by his connection to this city in any way.

Kowalski hasn’t lived in Opole for years. And when he sometimes appears here, he rather slips through fences, because when he falls into someone, at best it ends up laughing at him, and at worst it ends up being a political adventure on the sidewalk.

A few years ago, on the entry routes to Opole, there were even billboards with the slogan “Opole apologizes for Janusz Kowalski”.

Except I don’t think that Opole needed to apologize for him.

I don’t even think Opole should be ashamed of him, because he has never been an important figure in this city. Somewhere long ago he was remembered as a young activist of the Civic Platform, who shouted a lot on the streets and that actually ends his real Opole legend.

In his case, a completely different billboard would be appropriate today.

Janusz Kowalski is famous for creating excluding zones, for polarization, for dividing people into better and worse, for telling Polish in the language of contempt, suspicion and adventure. That is why a billboard with a sign would be much more appropriate:

Opole is a free zone from Kowalski’s “Janusz of Polish politics”.

And, of course, it’s not just about one person. It’s about some type of politics. On pathopolitics. About the dart of the parliament speaker. About making aggression a political program. About fake news, manipulations, incitement, eternal insulting others and building your own position on the fact that first divides people into better and worse, and then pretends that it’s done in the name of Poland.

It’s a policy, in which less content, the more outcry. Less class, more patriotic phrases. The more shady relations, the more pumped up morals in public speaking.

It’s a style that turns a public debate into a gutter and then tries to convince everyone that this gutter is patriotism.

That’s why I will repeat it again, without any embellishments:

Opole is a free zone from Kowalski’s “Janusz of Polish politics”.

And I hope not only Opole, what I wish for Poland.