Reply #1: Poland's politics were in major disarray before the last election.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

Some Poles actually thought that their country would not survive the process. When the election took place, peacefully, without incident, and apparently without fraud, people relaxed, took a breath, and got back to their normal lives. Issues like the Euro, the EU (and the growing economic catastrophe they seemed to cause), Iraq and Afghanistan, relations with Russia, homosexuality, the role of the Catholic church (and their own growing child abuse scandal) and other truly tough issues dominated their conversations, and were under serious debate in editorial pages. Even those who did not support the winners were able to chill out and relax.

Then, this horror struck.