Court-stacking is not dictatorial. It's partisan politics and in this case it was a blatant move to secure political success, but it still isn't enough to declare that PiS was attempting to create a dictatorship. Especially since both the courts and the EU managed to successfully prevent their amendments. Poland has problems, but they are not a dictatorship. PiS is corrupt, but they have not attempted to subvert the democracy so much as secure their political goals of ensuring their platform is represented whether they are in power or not. This is normal behavior for most political parties, especially those that secure a large enough majority to actually make those changes. It's sneaky, but it is standard.
you may be right in the case of Poland. but stacking the court is usually a serius hint. countries are going that way. it eventually rest of the shoulders of Poland's politicians convince their allies that is not the case.
I agree that court-stacking is a bad sign. It's a serious indication that the parties of the countries have stopped making any attempt to compromise or communicate with each other--a stage that contributes to the environment from which a dictator can rise. But It can take 100 years of partisan disagreement before such a thing, and often resolves itself.
Poland isn't obligated, either, to convince their allies that they aren't becoming a dictatorship. The only obligation for Poland is to look after Poland and to honour the terms of their alliances (which is part of looking after Poland)--to suggest otherwise is to buy into the globalist idea that countries are somehow obligated to look out for each other and that they are not in an inherit state of competition.
Court-stacking is not dictatorial. It's partisan politics and in this case it was a blatant move to secure political success, but it still isn't enough to declare that PiS was attempting to create a dictatorship. Especially since both the courts and the EU managed to successfully prevent their amendments. Poland has problems, but they are not a dictatorship. PiS is corrupt, but they have not attempted to subvert the democracy so much as secure their political goals of ensuring their platform is represented whether they are in power or not. This is normal behavior for most political parties, especially those that secure a large enough majority to actually make those changes. It's sneaky, but it is standard.
you may be right in the case of Poland. but stacking the court is usually a serius hint. countries are going that way. it eventually rest of the shoulders of Poland's politicians convince their allies that is not the case.
I agree that court-stacking is a bad sign. It's a serious indication that the parties of the countries have stopped making any attempt to compromise or communicate with each other--a stage that contributes to the environment from which a dictator can rise. But It can take 100 years of partisan disagreement before such a thing, and often resolves itself.
Poland isn't obligated, either, to convince their allies that they aren't becoming a dictatorship. The only obligation for Poland is to look after Poland and to honour the terms of their alliances (which is part of looking after Poland)--to suggest otherwise is to buy into the globalist idea that countries are somehow obligated to look out for each other and that they are not in an inherit state of competition.