For me, elections are my civic duty, and I believe that going to vote makes sense. Like in the parable about the crabs and the man saving them. The sea had washed millions of crabs onto the shore, and a man walked along the beach, throwing them back into the water. A person watching him asked: “Why are you doing this? There are millions of them; it makes no sense—you will not save them all.” The man bent down, picked up one crustacean, threw it into the sea, and replied: “It makes a difference to this one.”
I will go to the elections because it makes sense to me, and it also makes sense for that one candidate. I will not change politics or Poland. I will not change the people who shape it, but I will make a conscious choice. I will not stand aside under the false impression that my passivity will make anyone think or punish anyone.
We do not have an ideal candidate. True. But does anyone among you believe that one will ever appear? I have no illusions. The choice is between Andrzej Duda and Bronisław Komorowski. And I choose one of them.
Why Komorowski? It is my personal choice. Because he signed the anti-violence convention. Because at his “March for Independence” on 11 November there are no football hooligans, Młodzież Wszechpolska or cranks shouting anti-state, aggressive slogans. Because he will not deliberately dig up the victims of the Smolensk disaster from their graves every year, and perhaps he will manage to provide these people and their families with some peace. That is enough for me.
What do you think? Are you going to vote?
Grażyna Hanaf