But why is it on the rise. Did the majority get more foolish or is it just more of them so foolishness is amplified disproportionately?

Please also read 14 characteristics of facism. Warning point controlling the media. https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html

Free speech in Poland is doing way better than almost anywhere else in the world. You can think, write and say what you want. There is no official or unofficial wrong-think commandos, or ideologies shoved down everyone's throat. You can actually have a public discussion there, without fear of retaliation, being ostracised, fired and unemployable forever, etc. In some parts of USA you can't even say "Merry Christmas" anymore without fear of being labelled a bigot, racist or whatever and having a talk with an HR.

And comments about fascism etc in Poland are offensive and ignorant. Polish people like noone else in the world are wary of ideologies like communism and fascism. A lot of people here making such comments, wouldn't recognize fascism and totalitarianism if it hit them in the head. Otherwise, they would be discussing American universities, antifa, PC police etc all the time, not "raise of fascism in Europe". Poland, as lame as it is in some respects is an awesome place if you value freedom of speech and mind. Come and visit.

Do not judge Poland, if you want to judge someone then judge polish government. This government is a result of populism wave that also elected Trump in US, made Nazi party entering Bundestag in Germany, made UK leave EU etc.

Before Law and Justice party took over, Poland was ruled by pro democratic, very pro EU and liberal-centric party. Poland (polish people) is the most pro EU country in whole Europe (source: eurostat) and was for last x years every year.

> result of populism wave that also elected Trump in US, made Nazi party entering Bundestag in Germany

That escalated quickly.

As if it wasn't the case in any other country as well... US in particular...

The government is elected by the people, it's perfectly reasonable to judge those people for the result of their actions.

I'm Italian but live in Poland, and it makes me cringe seeing the difference between a country that has no balls and does whatever Germany-controlled EU asks it to-- despite the huge damages inflicted to its citizen--and a country that puts its citizens first like Poland does.

I go to Germany often and besides a few outskirts, Munich feels like some Arab country where you hardly hear any German spoken. Nuremberg could be renamed Little Istanbul and no one would complain. It's a mess. In the meantime, Italy is in even worse conditions because we can't seem to make people respect the law. If you go to any city you'll see dozens of African street vendors selling counterfeit Gucci and Valentino bags undisturbed, in front of actual stores that pay taxes and sell (or try to sell) the real thing. All this to lower the cost of labor (unless you believe the "helping people" lie that politicians tell you).

I'm glad Europe exists, but we need some balance between what's good for the community and what individual countries need.

They're not pulling a Sweden and censoring politically incorrect truths.

You're free to link any examples.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/extremhogersajt-och-nazis...

This was fairly recent, as I understand it, SVT is the more "reputable" news source and they don't seem to be refuting any of the data. Shortly after the migrant crisis began, Swedish police stopped recording information about the ethnicity of perps.

Sweden has laws how you have to handle personal information, a database like that would potentially breach that law.

It's basically like a smaller version of GDPR from the EU.

How is this governmental censoring?

You'd breach the same law if you made a database with people that like Nintendo games.

Jeez.

The EU giving money to "socialists" makes no sense.