I am not outraged by this need to change someone else’s circle of influence into one’s own, as the man associated with elephants once a woman sprawled across our portal. I believe it is a human need and fits within the norms of political games. I only believe that people should be told clearly what this is about. That would be—if I may use the poetic language from the election posters of the man associated with elephants—friendly.
I understand why this truth is not being displayed on billboards. The slogan “Now it’s f***ing our turn!” would not look very good on an election poster.
It would be foolish to write this on Facebook: we have had enough of not being able to become presidents of municipal companies, of not being able to get attractively paid positions on supervisory boards, and of not being able to become directors of cool municipal institutions, while they have already had their fill and we would like to have ours.
Why do I look at these new local-government officials with clean hands, warm hearts and unsullied ideals so cynically? Well, I don’t know. Maybe because the man associated with elephants has already been part of the closed circle and may have liked it so much that, when he was expelled from it, he still misses it and suffers? And this torment drives him to seek change.
Because when he earned almost 90,000 a year as, among other things, the city’s deputy mayor, he never once publicly criticized matters concerning Bolesławiec. When he was Piotr Roman’s young deputy mayor, he claimed that “he would implement the mayor’s vision; the city and its units were functioning well, and nothing required a revolution.” And when he lost his position, everything suddenly began to be wrong, and for eight years he has been finding new shortcomings in the mayor. And how eager he is for change!
Or perhaps I do not believe in these lofty ideals when I see the female emcee at the convention, who also failed to break through the closed circle at the cultural center and is now trying to get in another way, using elephants to clear a path for herself?
The closed circle exists and is real, ladies and gentlemen associated with elephants. You are right. Change is fine. I believe your strategy makes sense and that you certainly know where you are going. But please, tell people honestly.
Tell them: we want power for ourselves, we want positions for ourselves, we want things to be better for our own people, because our legs already hurt from standing in this queue for good salaries from a circle closed to us. We will abolish the old circle and replace it with a completely new, fresh one, but accessible only to those who prove themselves in the fight against the old authorities. All the other residents will get hedge elephants in the little square, because that is the only election promise I believe will actually be fulfilled after victory.
After all, you have already divided up the positions and the election cake; only the tasty morsels are still behind the glass, and you are not the ones consuming them yet—though your mouths are watering.
What can I say? I tell you: yes. Thanks to you, democracy works. If you do not win, you will at least ensure that the closed circle does not grow complacent and remains vigilant, and that is already something. Remember: elephants with their trunks raised, positioned toward the window, bring good luck. And show what you are capable of