What is happening is a massive conflict of interest over who controls state owned companies and decides how state funds are spend.
Since previous coalition ruled for 8 years they managed to fill almost every position in country with their own people so there's big resistance whenever new government wants to fill those places with their own people.
Current opposition is supported by media houses who benefited tremendously from advertising money and subscriptions from state owned companies but were cut off since those funds were redirected to right wing media after election and they react hysterically to anything government does screaming "fascism and end of democracy" for last two years.
It's all about money.
Sure "TKM" (Teraz K*rwa My - <Now, F*ck It, It's Our Turn>) has always been a part of Polish politics, but portrayal of the current state of affairs, especially dismantling of the constitutional checks & balances, as normal is ABSURD.
'Cause is it "more of the same" as you seem to imply:
- when constitutional tribunal is de facto defunct (and de iure it's not even a legal assembly anymore),
- when supreme court and the judiciary system are being actively dismantled,
- when even the independent civil service was abolished (it never became dominant, as it's a pain in the politicians' asses, but circa 12,5% of all administration employees were working within the framework), and now we're back to the law from... 1986 [sic!] - the time we all know as a high point of politics in Poland...),
- when ethnic minorities are scared (to this I can testify as a member of one of them) cause blatantly racist attacks are dismissed by the police as, quote: "acts of hooliganism", and we cannot even get the relevant commission in the Parliament to gather, cause our concerns are labelled as "unwarranted demands",
- when in the same parliament language of hate, open racism seems to be the new standard of communication, with some bonus quirks on top of that (MPs barking, wtf?!);
- when... the litany of problems is just too long to put in here in a concise way...
Because if you seriously are able to depict the whole thing as simply "struggle for money" , as just the other side doing the exact same thing, then either you're really young, and have nothing to compare the today's situation to, or your notion of normality differs so much from mine, that any discussion is kind of futile, unless we can go back to the basics and at least define common terminology.
