German-Polish conference over history planned

[Klaus]

AHA! this time the Poles are the Nationalists!

[Lancer44]

Originally Posted by Klaus

AHA! this time the Poles are the Nationalists!

I'm glad you're back!

Regrettable... I'am ashamed reading what "ducks" are doing.

"Catholic Republic of Duckistan" - my former country...

Lancer44

[Klaus]

Can't be that bad, or is it? What's the problem up there in poland?

[Jim O]

The "problem" seems to be that political ambition and nationalism (on both sides) are showing their ugly sides.

[Klaus]

So it is really correct to call them nationalists?

[Jim O]

Originally Posted by Klaus

So it is really correct to call them nationalists?

Political opportunists? Wait! All politicians are opportunists.

[Klaus]

"Political opportunists? Wait! All politicians are opportunists."

I think a lot of our valued members think this way. Thats why I like this forum so much...

[Lancer44]

Jim is right - all politicians are opportunists...but some are like prostitutes.

Today Polish Families League - part of governing coalition started to talk about lifting 5% electoral limit for ethnic minorities.
Shame!
They talk mainly about German minority to get popular support of their sclerotic electorate. "Mohair berets"...

In Poland beside very splinter groups, counted in fraction of percentage points, are 3 major ethnic minorities: German, Ukrainian and Belarussian.
All of them deserve to have their representation in Parliament.
Therefore Constitution granted them privilege that their candidates don't need to reach minimum 5% of the votes like any political party.

Now ducks want to change it because this move seems to be the only way to gain some votes.

Opposition is constantly gaining support and nationalists are loosing.

Let's hope nationalists will not last long.

Lancer44

[Klaus]

The problem wit nationalists is that they tend to come back.

[Jim O]

Originally Posted by Lancer44

Jim is right - all politicians are opportunists...but some are like prostitutes.

Today Polish Families League - part of governing coalition started to talk about lifting 5% electoral limit for ethnic minorities.
Shame!
They talk mainly about German minority to get popular support of their sclerotic electorate. "Mohair berets"...

In Poland beside very splinter groups, counted in fraction of percentage points, are 3 major ethnic minorities: German, Ukrainian and Belarussian.
All of them deserve to have their representation in Parliament.
Therefore Constitution granted them privilege that their candidates don't need to reach minimum 5% of the votes like any political party.

Now ducks want to change it because this move seems to be the only way to gain some votes.

Opposition is constantly gaining support and nationalists are loosing.

Let's hope nationalists will not last long.

Lancer44

As Lord Acton, a British historian of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries observed:

"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Put another way, power is addicitive, and is an aphrodesiac of sorts. Once held, one often does anything to retain it.