Is Poland a democratic country?

[ApatheticAustrian]

Yes, it might be an increasingly illiberal one but it's still a democracy.

[ApatheticAustrian]

Yes. 

Well, technically it is a parliamentary republic at the moment, but it has historically been the most democratic country in that part of the world for about a thousand years.  I think that has been its main problem.  Too much democracy made them easy targets for Germany, Russia, Austria, etc., over the past several centuries.

It's interesting (and from my national point of view, depressing) how diffrently the two European countries with early parliamentary system (England and Poland-Lithuania) evolved.

being an island and being "sandwiched" between two reactionary super-powers tends to do that.

[ApatheticAustrian]

Yes, although the complete lack of viable left-of-center options means that rotation in office is perhaps less meaningful than in other democracies.

believe me, the difference between the former government and the new government totally resembles the new global opposites of liberalism vs authoritarism....enough choice for me.