Manifest of progressive conservatism. 2.0

Written by Maciej Strzembosz.

From my early youth, erstwhile asked about political views, I replied that I belonged to the non-existent composition conservatism, or compassionate conservatism, whose concern is the community and those who failed. However, various friends pointed out that I did not fit into this formation. Firstly, I do not miss the past years (knowingly, a commune!); secondly, the complexity of the conservatism usually develops in spiritual communities, and I am an agnostic; thirdly, besides many things in adult life I wanted to improvement and modernise to make me painless Conservative. For the old years, I decided to change my recognition and declare myself a progressive conservative. What is more, I believe, in view of the many threats to the human species, the request for endurance becomes the most important, but the way to this is sustainable progress, not the longing for an open-air museum.

I. Diagnosis

The most crucial difference between classical progressive and classical conservative was that progressives believed in social engineering (mostly left-wing) and conservatives believed in the order of things based on fundamental values and development, which stems from the natural desire to improve their existence, alternatively than from government-based conversion of bread eaters into angels. This division hasn't made sense for years. Experiments with social engineering brought to humanity an unimaginable fascist and communist hekatomba, the right-wing regarded Fascism as an accident at work or as a deceived by the name of "national socialism" blamed the left-wing elements of Nazi politics, as a consequence it did not work until the end of this lesson. On the another hand, the left is paralysed by its past or deals with socially secondary things, focusing on the individual happiness of members of the various minorities, and in this sense becomes part of the individualistic liberal movement, or accepting capitalism as inevitable and gradually evolving into representation of the large-town elites, leaving uneducated, aged and inhabiting provinces to right-wing, most populist forms. And conventional conservatism over time has become a caricature of itself without fighting postmodernism and algorithms in social media promoting aggression, division and conspiracy theories. Conservatives present are proclaimed to be people who yearn for authoritarianism and a spiritual state, which in turn undermines the universality of values specified as freedom, including freedom of religion in particular. Until recently, rather a number of Polish conservatives have been looking at the Putno defenders of conventional values, and now American conservatives are trampling in the race, who will more elaborately announce Donald Trump, a notorious liar and fraud, the future of the conservative movement. If he is the messiah of conservatism, the state of planet conservatism is even worse than the state of leftist ideology. Leftist ideologies have always put force on the consequence by ignoring the means of the transition stage, while conservatives – ignoring an crucial part of the fundamental values specified as fact and decency – compromise the very essence of conservatism. Finally, modern conservatism has long utilized the language of value not for their defence or promotion, but as a smokescreen for the insolent enrichment of fewer without any care for the community.

Both classical wings, left-wing and conservative, have besides been suffering for years from the unimaginable egoism of the elite, which allows the opponents of both these currents to accuse them as rightly as possible of hypocrisy, bordering on cynicism. At the same time, the worst are those who have a sense of mission so strong that it sends to them their own cynicism, which they consider to be a realistic approach to reality. Cynic specified as Jacek Kurski has at least unfailing self-consciousness, while Jarosław Kaczyński believes that he works for the good of Poland, even though he has been destroying our community for years. Even Donald Tusk, a liberal, has late powerfully leftist, who had sent people with a imagination to the doctor years ago, has a “vision” and “mission” today, i.e. to save Poland from duckiness. What is it, however, to save Poland erstwhile one-third of its citizens are excluded? In fact, both major parties focus almost exclusively on themselves and their polarizing war, ensuring their dominance.

Nor is liberalism the answer to today's challenges, which was already a fairy tale for naive people in the globalization phase, and now, in the pre-war era, in the days of protectionism, threats to supply chains and openly preparing for the large war, is simply a harmful dream of respective dinosaurs or a smokescreen for the selfish interests of corporations justifying their cooperation with aggressive dictatorships. The peculiar perversion of liberalism and the highest accomplishment of political hypocrisy is the constant simplification of richest taxes, which makes most people take the chance of success based on their own autonomy. fewer examples of fast promotion to the wealthiest elite obscure the image of a society increasingly bound up in improvement by the dominance of large corporations and the hereditaryness of frequently stolen capital. Stealed, among others, by taxation avoidance, neocolonial exploitation of weaker nations and their resources, yet thanks to money laundering and the ever-increasing corruption of political elites.

Moreover, in the present construction of the planet and economics, the origin of wealth is no longer work, only access, and the money paid to employees increasingly match consumption vouchers alternatively than elements of capital. The Austro-Hungarian authoritative could have put off adequate to not only buy the property, but put aside adequate capital for the family's life after his death with interest from him. Today, jobs like this just don't be anymore. Money not spent or invested in the wealth of others loses value so rapidly that it cannot represent real savings, safeguarding old age or family. As a result, as there is simply a trap for medium-sized improvement for countries, the trap for medium-sized household improvement is besides spreading. Due to the improvement of civilization and the convenience of life, we halt noticing developmental limitations and failure of financial autonomy. Socially, the problem is besides unnoticed due to the fact that the media is full of stories of people's successes coming to large money during respective years of work. However, they are usually people of only a fewer categories: entrepreneurs inventing a gap in the market; representatives of creative industries, i.e. creators and content producers; inventors and innovators, or a creative combination of 2 or even sometimes 3 of the above categories. In this media image, the fundamental phenomenon is disappearing, the fact that the biggest money comes from the control of access through fresh monopolies and on this occasion the theft of any of the value of the projects which must benefit from the access offered. For example, Google has revolutionized the net search engine, but it earns on access to the marketplace that it controls, and for many years its growth has been based on intellectual value theft (now partially paid but well below their value) and is inactive based on the theft of user data and companies utilizing their services. Real wealth besides involves access to uncommon goods or government-controlled goods. Fortunes that have grown on arbitrary decisions to grant a tv licence, the right to exploit natural resources or state contracts are a good and visible example of this. But little attention is paid to the fortunes associated with alleged advice, which is to capture access to uncommon goods under corrupt mechanisms. For example, "advising" companies in EU backing tenders, were very frequently linked to the evaluation committees, and there are known cases where half of the participation in the company is requested in exchange for the grant. Similarly, privatization and expropriation of the nomenclature is simply a good example of commercialisation of access. But there is besides a full network of financial services available only above very crucial capital, which limits availability to a certain kind of investment only to an elite already holding capital.

Access to uncommon goods is besides frequently linked to crime or criminal cooperation between large business and dictatorships. From uncommon earth metals, through marketplace access in exchange for helping bargain technology or get components for the war machine. Moreover, there are all allegedly democratic states that search competitive advantages already in accessing inexpensive natural materials, in exchange for technology transfer, specified as Germany towards Russia and China, or in taxation fraud against another countries in cooperation with the largest corporations specified as the Netherlands, Ireland and Luxembourg.

These access gates in the modern planet are so many that without a reliable description of this system, it is hard to even effort for a comprehensive repair diagnosis.

This is accompanied by a phenomenon sometimes called monada anthropology, or false belief that man can be without fellowship, in fact being a kind of leibnizian monada, which strives to gain a privileged position among another monadas and thus guarantee himself the highest goal, individual happiness, unique, indivisible and exclusively his own. Of course, social media and alleged culture of distraction are an effective tool to advance this approach. The dopamine shot, which is simply a reward for a short video or meme, slow replaces the amusement culture requiring time to participate in the event, in exchange for longer well-being, as the amusement culture has mostly dispelled a culture based on the experience of art and conscious participation in this experience. The community of values is so in wide reverse, and the culture of monada, in which the individual receives immediate and transient but immediate satisfaction, in exchange for which it allows to coinise its behaviors and habits and is subject to control of algorithms, destroys not only social ties, but besides incapacitates its audiences, besides by the fact that the algorithm provides content only akin to those already seen, while the erstwhile model of culture opened man to fresh sensations and allowed him to extend his subject awareness. Clearly the anthropology of monada is beneficial to large corporations, monopolists from BigTech, but besides contemporary populists and autocrats, due to the fact that monada is defenceless against their strength and does not have the tools of opposition provided by the cultural community, while voluntarily giving up privacy and allowing to monitor its behaviour.

I do not regulation out that the conflict between pseudoliberal monada culture and community culture is beginning to slow describe the division between the erstwhile left and right alternatively than the old works. It is besides essential to add that populisms based on alleged identity culture are not Community movements, but simply a form of monad organization for the purposes of their leaders, related to power and access to wealth. There is simply a fundamental difference between the community of leaders and the community of conscious citizens.

In addition to the threat of large war, we are in a situation of existential climate threats and those related to the unregulated improvement of artificial intelligence. The ideas of democracy, apart from the widely understood West, have been effectively compromised by neo-colonial practices and selective treatment of human rights and rights. A planet in which Haiti has for 200 years repaid debts to the descendants of its French owners for the lost “mere” or slaves, and another erstwhile colonies of France cannot usage their gold reserves held by the Bank of France, but simply take French credits under the pledge of this gold, does not favour the serious treatment of the Liberte Egalite Fraternite slogan.

Moreover, the West itself is besides experiencing its existential crisis. To a large degree due to the fact that the culture of wealth and growth at all costs, while ignoring the quality and dignity of the life of the average man, promotes the capture of control over the increasing areas of life by large corporations and undermines the belief in the democratic strategy as a power of conscious citizens. The ideologists of authoritarianism thus conclude that the implosion of the West is inevitable and that they are the future of the human race.

Small and medium-sized countries, especially Poland, which have experienced the failure of independency in the close past, must rediscover the way of improvement in which the community and its needs will be the most important. A community immune to all kinds of crises. The odds aren't great, but you gotta try.

I consider the question of artificial intelligence to be the top threat. Geoffrey Hinton, co-founder of modern neural networks, called the godfather of artificial intelligence, has late pointed out that companies that compete for the largest part of cake have abandoned the issue of caution in implementing fresh solutions for their implementation as shortly as possible, in order to advance competition. Hinton then advocates greater state control and the creation of regulations constituting a network of safeguards. Unfortunately, Hinton is incorrect about 2 things. Firstly, the US regulations will not cover another parts of the world, including authoritarian countries, and secondly, they will not cover the criminal underground – the only "market" that continues to globalize. After Elon's irresponsible decision, Musk released AI's origin code into the network, both dictatorships and criminals were given a gift that would forever close the discussion whether the genie would be released from his prison. Now the question is not whether, but erstwhile and what the consequences will be, invisible to us today, be openly disregarded.

A akin threat is posed by the climate disaster, which will consequence in massive migrations destroying the old planet order and the spectrum of the large war that any believe has already begun, and others believe that the Chinese invasion of Taiwan announced at the end of this decade will only begin.

In this situation, the deepest thought requires the very endurance of the human species and what can be done, on our tiny scale, to increase the chance to last our community. advancement will drive as crazy as it does, resisting it in the name of the past planet will neither reconstruct the erstwhile way of life nor bring any good. The contemporary conservative must influence its form and direction alternatively of fighting progress. To do so, he must become a progressive conservative.

II. Manifest of Progressive Conservativeism

1. The primacy of the community over individual selfishness

The State should be organised so that the interest of the community takes precedence over individual and group selfishness. Individual freedoms are protected by the State, unless they endanger another understandings of the freedoms of another members of the community. People who hazard their lives for the community and its safety are peculiarly protected. Individual expression of freedom or belief is not beyond the interests of the full community and the state.

A citizen, a associate of the community, has not only rights but besides responsibilities.

A progressive conservative appreciates the state and its institutions, even if their policies do not agree with its view of the world. The sustainability of the institutions requires that the change should only take place through a democratic mandate or effective ideological persuasion.

A progressive conservative thus strives to have the support of most fellow citizens, not to lock himself in an ivory tower arrogant of his expected moral superiority.

2. Progressive Conservatives prosecute self-freedom and safeguard the freedom of others

The freedom of a progressive conservative is neither freedom to... nor freedom from... but it is connected with work for himself and for others and fortitude towards its own fate. Freedom is simply a commitment. In the Greek tradition, this triad of freedom-responsibility-manage describes the figure of a sailor; individual who faces the unknown and powerful, due to the fact that this requires responsibility, and the challenge cast by the sea in return gives freedom. So it is simply a freedom that must be earned with valor and the ability to take responsibility. The ability to face the challenge, as Palladas wrote, “distinguishes sailors from mediocre people.” Mikołaj Sąp-Szarzyński wrote about the same thing: “Peace – happiness, but fighting our heavenly existence.” In the poem “Why Classics” by Zbigniew Herbert describing Tukidides' exile for defeat at Amfipolis, he notes that erstwhile writing the Peloponnesian War, Tukidides does not complain of bad luck, co-workers, nor justifies weather, but “says only that he had 7 ships// was winter/// and sailed quickly”. Without the ethos of valor, which requires freedom and responsibility, there is no crucial cultural form of conservatism. That is why so barren is the expected conservatism of the PiS, which does not be without complaining of the obstructions made by others, without a shortcut to breaking all the rules and continually violating the freedom of another members of the community in the name of the interests of a organization subordinate to 1 man, alternatively than to a strategy of values. There is besides no courage in it, due to the fact that as most modern PiS parties fear hard decisions and endure from investigation – dependence on polls excluding real strategical thinking.

3. Man, not macroeconomics

Too many government programmes are guided by macroeconomic indicators in the assessment of state development. However, not all increase is beneficial for the community that forms the Polish state. The state must make criteria of interest of the community more crucial than individual wealth. Let us call this a policy of the primacy of quality of life (cf. Chapter III, paragraph 4) over the statistical growth of wealth. The increase in wealth, which depends on enemy countries or concentrated in very fewer hands, is not as valuable as the even increase in the wealth of the community which increases the quality of life of all Poles.

4. The service of the state, not meaning its weakness.

The state is to service citizens. all government official, including the Prime Minister and the President, is employed in the civilian service sector. However, it must have effective tools for carrying out the tasks entrusted by the Community. The state and its institutions must be strong and at the same time transparent and regularly settled.

5. Excessive social dissection does not service the community.

Success and competence must be decently rewarded, but accumulation of individual wealth, especially by exploiting the state's weaknesses and avoiding paying taxes, is not the privilege of the rich, but a crime. Criminals can't be rewarded for breaking the law. The degressive taxation strategy must be terminated as shortly as possible.

6. Polish citizens have more rights in Poland than global corporations.

Polish laws and civilian liberties are more crucial than the economical interest of corporations. Corporations must realize that the right to act in Poland means to observe Polish law and human dignity. If they do not accept it – we invitation you elsewhere. We're a large adequate marketplace to not worry about losing the presence of a fewer corporations that are willing to operate an employee. Obliging employees to usage diapers at work to limit breaks for toilet visits is simply a symbol of what investments we do NOT request in Poland. However, this does not mean tolerance for violations of labour rights by Polish entrepreneurs. It's about the equality of entrepreneurs with the law.

7. Equality to law and civilian rights does not mean that people are equal and uniform.

Respect for human diversity is simply a fundamental political rule of the state. A progressive conservative cannot be a believer in either the worship of an individual or the worship of mediocrity. Citizens have equal rights (and obligations!), but that does not make them equal. Equality to the law is different from the designation that we are all the same. The differences between us find the uniqueness of the individual, so we should not be offended or blurred. alternatively of a postulate of absolute and absurd equality ("We all have the same stomachs"), it would be useful to have more empathy in the defence of the weakest, but not necessarily those whose weakness is only laziness.

8. Self-government and social self-organization take precedence over the organization policy of the state.

The Community has the right to carry out certain tasks of the State itself, and the State is then limited to checking whether the implementation is compatible with Polish law. The primary regulation of state in areas another than safety and compliance must be the rule of subsidiarity, and it must be prohibited to delegate tasks to local governments without funding. This practice distorts the thought of self-government and restricts social self-organization.

9. Political loyalty is loyalty to voters, values and the state, not to the leader.

The leadership parties are a threat to democracy. As long as the leader of the group decides to make electoral letters, so long the danger will exist. Therefore, the rule of free primaries in districts is introduced – without prejudging the electoral order (cf. Part III). Primary and backing of political parties)

10. Culture is the coin of independence

The nation exists through a culture whose emanation is language, including symbolic language and material and intangible heritage. Culture must so be free for the nation to be free and open to development, experimentation and transformation so that the nation can develop. Culture spending is so an investment in the community, its identity and quality of life. They are as crucial as spending on R&D or defence, especially since the success of the defence war depends on social engagement and cultural reasons influence them.

A progressive conservative understands that an independent nation and a free nation are Two different things. A nation of spiritual slaves can be technically independent, but never free. Man's freedom shapes him culture, so 1 of the basic attributes of freedom is freedom creative.

Culture, this authentic and vibrant, is besides a school of valor to the challenges of the modern world. A sound reflection on human destiny must always be an introduction to the diagnosis and building of corrective programmes. This most frequently requires a fresh language, which can only be created by culture. Tischner’s “thinking from within a metaphor” shows that it is art and individual creative energy that can break the limitations of the old language.

11. The limits of human cognition are language.

At the same time, the deep structures of the language are circumstantial and different for different cultures. The Conservative understands this paradox, so he allows a different knowing of values. He tries not to impose anything, but to realize diversity and find his place in it.

12. A progressive conservative appreciates spiritual freedom, but he does not should be spiritual himself.

The key to conservatism is to believe in universal values. They can manifest themselves by religion in any God or God, but they can besides be worldly respect for values as a strategy that directs human life and gives it meaning. The contemporary conservative refers to the old tradition of monolatia: I believe what I want to believe, without prejudging the truthfulness of another faith.

13. respect for human dignity cannot be selective.

Therefore, the Conservative demands respect for human dignity at work, politics, and any ventures financed from public money. A part of respect for human dignity is equal access to infrastructure, services and opportunities for development.

The progressive conservative does not impose his worldview, but ensures that the community is free to express different worldviews, without imposing only the right one.

The progressive conservative opposes the fashions aspiring to be a determinant of what is acceptable and unacceptable. He defends freedom of speech and expression against political correctness and cancel culture, even if he appreciates the nobility of the motives of the murderers.

No 1 should be hurt intentionally, but the freedom of the community is more crucial than the individual's feelings.

14. Panta rei or continuous renewal

Nothing is eternal, neither the system, nor the language, nor the knowing of values. Therefore, it is essential to constantly research what human civilisation is at a given minute and what best serves it. There is only 1 right doctrine, due to the fact that the planet and civilization are constantly changing, and the most crucial thing is to be able to prepare citizens for change. Therefore, besides fast advancement can be as harmful as deficiency of progress, or besides slow. Without illusion of variation, a progressive conservative strives to preserve what is most precious, or values that give human life dignity and meaning.

15. Let's respect nature. besides human.

Human nature has evolved through the millenniums and is full of atavisms and outdated functioning mechanisms. Civilization is simply a tiny fraction in the past of human nature. The velocity of change should not affect the natural rhythm of the evolution of human nature. Nor should 1 gotta have this nature, full of animal atavisms, peculiar illusions. The greatness of human nature can be wonderful, but rare. all day it manifests itself in the request of safety, comfort, solutions that go along the smallest line of resistance. And all haughtiness corresponds to a large dose of wickedness. erstwhile designing politics, let us remember human interests and that acting against our own interests is not in human nature. Altruism is simply a large consequence of the improvement of civilization, but nevertheless alternatively a bit of an incident.

Therefore, on climate issues too, the progressive conservative is looking for solutions that are the simplest and not across human short-term interests, due to the fact that life is short and we just think and act – to guarantee comfort and safety for ourselves and for our loved ones.

The fight against climate change must not subjugate countries to free totalitarian countries (cf. Part III). Climate policy and freedom)

16. A progressive conservative understands the request for safety and rooting.

He besides understands that the sense of safety is greatly influenced by knowing the planet and recognizing reality as friendly. He besides understands the dangers and natural fear of fresh technologies and tools, knowing that education is the best way to tame them. So any form of educational, communication or digital exclusion is simply a form of slavery.

17. Enemies of values.

The main enemy of values, and thus of conservatism, is hypocrisy, appearing on all sides of the political spectrum. Hypocrisis undermines belief in values as such, proving that they can be treated instrumentally and constitute tools of oppression.

18. Leadership of a Reasonable Change

Because a progressive conservative believes in the request for any changes and possible improvement (or deterioration) of human condition through political processes, he should not be limited to individual life only, but to political participation. He should effort to give the form of change and counteract the negative selection of policymakers. Politics is the organization of a common life, the community deserves it to be an organization of good and tailored to the needs of citizens, not power. The dominance of the interests of power over the interests of citizens always leads to corruption and perversion. And the only real form of power control is the self-organization of conscious citizens. Hence the importance of NGOs, economical self-governments and free media, independent of central and local authorities.

19. A progressive conservative understands that tiny countries can be little than large powers.

Above all, he understands that they have a smaller margin of error. Therefore, the tiny communities we belong to must learn to plan long-term planning and not to start unnecessary wars, especially interior ones. Anyone who starts an interior war, weakens the community and endangers its chances of survival.

20. A progressive conservative considers that residence in a state should not be linked to a crucial decrease in quality of life, including access to infrastructure, services, wellness services, education and culture.

Therefore, the policy of progressive conservatism seeks to make a country in which all regions receive improvement support from the state inversely proportional to the state of their development. (see Part III Regional investment policy and improvement programme of microregion capitals).

21. The progressive Conservative supports the separation of executive, legislative and judicial powers and their common independence, so combating the excessive impact of political parties on the lives of citizens.

This belief is based on various principles limiting the anticipation of the stubbornness of all areas of life (cf. Part III Separation of authorities and organization powers) and preventing the closure of a political strategy that impedes the formation of fresh parties (cf. Part III beginning of the organization strategy and financing of political parties).

22. The love of cognition cannot be little than the love of tradition.

Many elements of tradition have a beginning in misconceptions resulting from the deficiency of cognition at the time. Resisting to mistakes, just due to the fact that they are traditional, is proof of stupidity, not conservatism. Tradition is worth having, knowing and respecting, but should besides be critically studied.

It should besides be remembered that European tradition has 2 powerful sources: Greek culture and Christianity, but usually besides a 3rd origin – local. Already the first 2 traditions have many conflicting points, specified as the concept of freedom, free will or the attitude to knowledge. Christianity spreading to different cultures adapted to local traditions trying to incorporate and reinterpret them. This is why in Poland it is so crucial to worship Mary, marginal in many another regions of the world, which had not previously had specified a strong Mokosha cult – the large Matrix. In turn, it is no coincidence that the Christian thought of predisposition was created in Scandinavian culture. So there is no 1 Christianity, there is no 1 European tradition, there is simply a creative tension between elements that cannot be reconciled from the main sources: Greek and Christian, and from the origin of variable local culture. Anyone who says European tradition is uniform is ignorant or populist. simply mention that democracy is not a Christian tradition but a Greek tradition. Therefore, the Polish-Catholic stereotype is not only contrary to our history, but besides does not mention to any universal tradition, as Polish Catholicism is circumstantial and unique, as is e.g. Mexican Catholicism or Black Africa.

23. The top force of the Polish tradition is the inclusion of the First Republic

Polish uniform nationality is an invention of Stalin and his poisoned gift designed to counteract Poland's return to greatness. actual Polishness is simply a sense of belonging to the Polish community (citizenship of the Republic of Poland) and its constitutional values, including attachment to individual freedom. due to the past of the region, we are all hybrids, and the ideology of the purity of Polish blood is anti-developmental and contrary to the tradition of the Republic of many nations. besides for demographic reasons, the Polish community must be a community of values and culture, not a community of blood.

A progressive conservative on the issue of immigrants derives a pattern from the Roman empire, in which the following principles of assimilation prevailed: there is 1 language, 1 law, 1 education, and though you can believe in the gods you want, you must respect ours. A progressive conservative likes the Swiss admission rule provided they have a guaranteed permanent occupation and a pragmatic approach by Canadians who consciously conduct immigration policies according to principles of not violating Canadian lifestyles and counteracting the formation of ghettos and excessive immigrant clusters from 1 country.

Since the progressive conservative believes in the assimilation strength of Polish culture, although he naturally seeks immigrants among the cultures closest to us, he does not pose artificial barriers to another essential immigrant economy and society, who will declare attachment to the tradition of our community, including spiritual tolerance, respect for the freedom of the citizen, but besides commit to fulfilling civic obligations.

As a cautious man, a progressive conservative requires immigrants to sign an work to comply with these principles and to agree to deportation as a consequence of a violation of the law before they become a citizen.

The progressive conservative seeks to preserve the sovereignty of our country's decisions on immigrants, at least those outside the Schengen area.

24. Conservativeism and authoritarianism and totalitarianism and the temptation of populism

Since the Conservative advocates universal values and human rights, he must be an opponent of authoritarianism and totalitarianism. If he is not a hypocrite, he cannot be a populist either, for basing his career on a lie that everything is easy and simple, so that strangers and interior enemies do not interfere, is contrary to the basic values of conservatism.

25. A progressive conservative is simply a realist, so more skeptic than an enthusiast, a pragmatist than an ideology.

A progressive conservative does not believe in kind bullshit: capital has no nationality or: media are just relays. The interest of the community is besides to guarantee that the key tools for its improvement stay under its control. Therefore, the progressive conservative is simply a supporter of the Polish currency, striving to increase Polish capital, defend control over critical infrastructure and resources (cf. Part III Energy free of AI), considers the media truly public as a useful tool of freedom of thought.

The progressive Conservative supports national champions and sectors with the highest added value, but besides enforces the superiority of the law and interest of the community over their economical interests.

Realism requires that we admit that since we care first and foremost about our interests and our security, it is more than certain that others do the same.

26. A progressive conservative believes in global cooperation, but is aware of the hazard of transferring any of his sovereignty to a abroad board.

In each cooperation, each organization seeks to derive maximum benefit with minimal effort. Therefore, not only the account but besides the community of values is crucial in cooperation. The improvement and safety of Poland should depend as small as possible on abroad influences contrary to our strategy of values, so close cooperation is possible only with countries and communities of akin values. Cooperation with aggressive dictatorships should be kept to a minimum, even at a slower price. Money is not everything, and surely little than freedom and the right to self-determine the community.

A progressive conservative does not believe in a multi-national pan-European state, as it is not a solution to the problems of individual communities with multiple conflict-ogenicity in the management and distribution of funds. It is besides a threat to culture and language, that is the identity of our community. The progressive conservative believes in the strength of Polish culture and the Polish community, so he is not afraid of cooperation and does not effort to close to another cultures.

27. Patriotism is not related to a circumstantial set of political views or social positions

A progressive conservative understands that a patriot can be both a devout Catholic and a frivolous ridiculer, owner and employed worker, student and retired. Patriotism does not prejudge either social status, origin or belief, nor a set of views on the desired device of the country, but readiness to defend in the event of danger and readiness to work for the common good during the period of peace.

Anyone who questions patriotism due to another views, social status, or origin, religion or sexual orientation, acts to harm the community and puts himself outside as a traitor acting in the interests of enemies A homeland desiring to weaken and break the community.

28. Barry Goldwater's Rule: Defending freedom is not a flaw. Restraint to righteousness is not a virtue.

Leadership must not consist solely of sucking up to the electorate, and policies cannot be determined by fresh polls. Where fundamental values, including independence, are at stake, actual leadership means a deficiency of quacktiness and willingness to lose in the next election, if that is the price of fact and defence of freedom.

29. Private and public property

The Conservative defends the right to private property, but unlike liberals, he does not think it is the most perfect form of property. In particular, infrastructure that serves all, the essential part of which is the information infrastructure, should not be solely privately owned. besides due to EU regulations prohibiting the privileged usage of local owners, public property is crucial to maintaining any assets in the hands of the community. The progressive Conservative so supports public investment (cf. Part III, point 13, Public investment).

A progressive conservative understands the paradox of the EU community, in which the request for equality between economical operators and the law can service to perpetuate inequalities. Public ownership is an instrument to combat this situation. In particular, the progressive conservative takes care to preserve the access of Polish entrepreneurs to Polish customers and so considers Google-type monopolies which, by changing the algorithm, can change the rules of the game to negative for Polish entities.

30. A progressive conservative understands that in the modern planet 1 of the most crucial rights is the right to information

Therefore, the progressive Conservative is simply a supporter of strong public media, independent of political power and government funding. However, it is not about playing old-fashioned, Byzantine public institutions of radio and television, but about knowing that the essence of public media is content and reaching out to the audience. Therefore, fresh public media should operate in a distributed strategy adapted from modern media and focused on the production and distribution of valuable content. As a realist, a progressive conservative realizes that without the political strategy being rebuilt, independent public media will not be there. (see Part III Public media)

A progressive conservative understands that all manifesto is simply a work of hope and an invitation to dialogue, not a prepared recipe. Therefore, the function of this text is an effort to initiate discussions on the future of Poland and the evolution of the concept of conservatism.

III. Policies of a large and tiny progressive conservative (catalogue opened)

1. Representative and direct democracy

Poland is besides large for our democracy to be only direct, but typical democracy is now becoming a organization based on populist emotions. Therefore, I would propose a wider usage of national and local referendums (using Swiss and American models), so that at each election a number of issues will be resolved simultaneously with referendums. This will force politicians to address circumstantial issues of large and small, so it will rise the substance of the campaign. For example, if a referendum on wellness improvement is besides held at the presidential elections, and during the local elections the issue of spending on a football club or privatization of local transport, then politicians gotta give any concrete answers to controversial topics during the campaign.

At the same time, separate referendums at the request of citizens have increased amounts of essential signatures (e.g. a million), but politicians have no right to block it.

Signing applications for referendums and civilian laws can be collected by mCitizen. At the moment, only large parties have an apparatus to collect any number of signatures, so in defence of their power, parties make it hard for citizens to collect signatures.

2. Separation of authorities and organization powers

The penetration of the organization into all social structures is simply a cancer consuming Polish (and European) politics. I so propose a number of restrictive measures.

2.1. Back to the ban on joining organization functions

2.2. The ban on politicians acting in the state and local government administration in the bodies of any company.

2.3. Members are prohibited from being in government unless this is the position of Minister or Prime Minister. Currently, respective twelve Members do not work in the parliament due to the fact that they have secondary governmental functions, which blurs the division between legislative and executive authorities and reduces the quality of both authorities.

2.4. A candidate for another post must resign before the run begins. fresh campaigns have shown that the election of EU Members and Ministers has mostly paralyzed the government and the Sejm.

2.5. A individual taking the position of minister or deputy minister may not run for another post during his word of office (except for the position of president). Worse pictures from the European campaign, where ministers liable for state safety have dealt with everything but work, must not happen again.

2.6. 1 of the top threats to democracy and at the same time the rationale of various populisms are the chief parties. The chief's primary instrument of power is the arbitraryity in the formation of electoral lists. I so request that primaries be conducted in all districts and that the number of votes received in the primaries be determined by the places on the list. Each associate of a organization from a given region would have the right to compete in the primary. The leader would have the right to support candidates, aid them rise funds, but he would gotta respect the decisions of his constituents. In this way – without prejudging the form of the ordination (the majority ordination besides has many drawbacks), local politicians would gain any autonomy towards the leader and have a feeling that they work for voters due to the fact that they delegate them seats on the list.

2.7. No organization registration in the name of the leader. The parties are not private businesses. erstwhile establishing a party, a public institution, a leader cannot warrant himself extraordinary privileges.

3. beginning of the organization strategy and financing of political parties

I am a supporter of organization backing from the state budget – otherwise politicians become hostages to large business. But 2 changes are needed;

3.1. The parties must spend state subsidies and subsidies in full during their word of office – otherwise money is lost and cannot be spent for elections. The parties receive separate backing for the campaign, depending on the number of registered letters in the districts.

At the moment, state subsidies are hoarded for elections, which makes the largest parties always have a immense advantage in the elections and the fresh parties do not have large chances in the elections. Meanwhile, grants were intended to improve the quality of organization work during the word of office.

3.2. The structure of the expenditure from the grant to the organization must be detailed and strictly controlled. In particular, backing from troll farms and the payment of haters should be prohibited, but mandatory measures should be detailed. In the case of political analyses and surveys, they should be available after the end of their word of office. Firstly, to make certain that they were, secondly, due to the fact that they are an interesting investigation material for sociologists and historians. And as publically funded, they should go to the public domain.

4. Real separation of judicial, executive and legislative powers

4.1. I am scandalously looking at part of the judicial community, which openly engages in lobbying affecting executive and legislative power. The independency of the judiciary besides requires respect for the independency of another industries. However, on the 1 hand, the Constitutional Tribunal goes far beyond its competence by ruling on the constitutionality or non-symical committees of inquiry, on the another hand, judicial associations openly lobby for their preferred legislative solutions and executive practices by introducing anarchy threatening the implosion of the state. The release of the murderer, who murdered 3 women in a court of appeal, due to the fact that the alleged old justice Andrzej Olszewski considered that the judgement of the court of first instance was flawed due to the fact that he issued it to the composition in which the neo-judgment sat, is an unimaginable scandal undermining the rule of legal certainty in a catastrophic way. At the moment, about 1/3 of the judges are alleged neo-judges. The Polish state will not last if it permits political assessments of any judges by others. The elimination of pathologies introduced into justice by the Law and Justices is simply a task for the legislative authority, not the joyful work of individual judges. specified a justice should be immediately suspended, as should judges active in political activities and lobbying. A comprehensive regulation is needed, which, while ensuring that judges are independent, will reduce the pathological aspects of their integration into legislative and executive policies.

4.2. safety of the legislative, executive and judicial systems.

4.2.1. It is unacceptable that Members and Senators become active Secret Service agents. Members of secret global organisations specified as Opus Dei or Masoni, who are subsequently subject to control another than election control and conduct a policy different from the 1 they declared, are unacceptable. Of course, the state must besides prevent infiltration of abroad peculiar services.

4.2.2. It is so regulated that candidates for MPs and senators make a declaration of membership of the organisation by joining the elections. The silence of belonging to an organisation specified as Opus Dei or peculiar services results in an immediate expiry of the mandate, and the parliamentarian is forced to reimburse all the funds collected as part of salary, diet, travel expenses or office moving costs with a punishment interest of 70% per year. Only a sanction resulting in individual bankruptcy can be a barrier to pathology, which is to agree decisions concerning government outside the Sejm, already by special, own and abroad services, are Opus Dei organizations, in which there is absolute discipline towards global superiors. Parliamentarians cannot have double loyalty! They should only have obligations to voters and to Poland.

4.2.3. akin regulations should be introduced in the structures of the executive authority (e.g. from the manager of the higher department), civilian service and the boards of the Treasury Companies. State policy and management of its assets must take place solely in the Polish interest and in a transparent manner.

4.2.4. akin rules shall be introduced erstwhile appointing judges.

5. Real control of political assets and prevention of conflicts of interest

It is widely known that entry into politics means a sharp increase in wealth, which does not necessarily come from the authoritative earnings of Members, Senators or Ministers. Politicians caught in corruption are usually tiny bears, exceptional losers like Cezary Chlebowski or Ryszard Czarnecki. Without rooting out systemic corruption, we will not see professionalization of Polish politics. For the time being, it turns out that any politician gave his wife the property to be out of the scope of the current anti-corruption regulations, to transfer the property to the children, to hide the shares in the company that the mother-emeritus allegedly bought, or to make a bank account abroad. We are besides dealing with excruciating situations erstwhile Roman Gierty, a politician pursuing abuse, simultaneously represents any people from the ellipse of erstwhile power as a lawyer (and this is most likely the least of conflicts of interest in which this politician, a lawyer representing politicians, is active – thus having access to their secrets and influencer from social media). This requires extremist steps without which it will be impossible to clean this unchangeable of Augiah.

5.1. Elimination of institutions of non-professional MPs and senators.

A parliamentarian who continues to prosecute his profession is an invitation to corruption. As part of the strategy of power, it is easy to scope information that helps in business. Besides, being a politician is not a hobby – it is simply a profession. By choosing their representative, the voters have the right to anticipate him to devote all his energy to them and all his work. If individual can't afford to be a politician, don't let him do it.

Similar restrictions should apply to government officials and regional politicians. There's time for coining a political career after it's over.

5.2. Property statements, donations, bank transfers

A complete fiction is the present statements of property (although politicians cheat on power here). Politicians request to inform not only about their assets, but besides about financial and property transfers from the last 3 years before the first candidate and throughout the political-state career. Not only should donations received by politicians be controlled, but besides given by politicians to others, including members of their immediate family. The earnings of the nearest household (no substance the wealth chapter) should besides be examined. And the flows in their accounts. The latest statements show that a well-known MP has received unimaginable amounts from... his bodyguard (!) are proof of how much corruption has devoured our system.

Parliamentarians, state officials, board members and supervisory boards of the SSP, local government managers should besides inform and let the applicable services to view accounts abroad.

The punishment for breaking these rules should be not only the expiry of the mandates but besides the reimbursement of the remuneration collected for the performance of the duties and interest.

5.3. Prohibition of household members in Treasury Companies

The influx of management talents among political families is further evidence that corruption is ubiquitous. And barely anyone is free from it. Even supposedly clean as a teardrop Jarosław Kaczyński took care of the earnings of his cousin Jan Tomaszewski and thanked Janinie Goss for lending jobs to state-owned companies. This has to stop. If you enter politics, you want to be an MP, mayor or minister, then you gotta inform your household that retirement and management jobs in the state administration are closed to them for the time of your career. If the household disagrees – don't run!

5.4. Prohibition of politicians on the Supervisory Boards of JAKICHKORLIEK companies, earning from lectures, collecting remuneration for attendance (appearance fee)

If you're a prominent politician, there's nothing to worry about erstwhile your career is over. Lobby companies, law firms, universities, private companies, legislature organizers of all kinds will arrive immediately after the end of their career. But not in the process. End of story. The monetaryisation of the political career must be postponed until the political retirement.

5.5. Blind trust

Politicians cannot actively manage their assets in the form of shares. It is essential to introduce the rule of transferring these shares to the professional board of the alleged blind trust (as happens in the US). It is besides prohibited to invest on the stock exchange, to get shares of companies by a politician and his closest family.

5.6. Cryptovaluty

More and more bribes are paid in cryptocurrency. Politicians and their families must so study to the applicable authorities of the State having them. The punishment for concealment shall be the expiry of the word of office and the reimbursement of the salaries collected, including interest.

6. Quality of life policy

Good macroeconomic indicators are not the same as improving the quality of life of citizens. The government should be required to present erstwhile a year a study on the state and quality of life of Poles (like the State of the Union in the USA), with any points being permanent, for example, the state of wellness care with a time of waiting for services; maintenance costs, including water, energy, heating, food, rental costs, availability of nurseries and kindergartens in a regional breakdown, etc.; state security, improvement of infrastructure, equalization of differences in the level of life between regions, access to services and cultural goods; as well as wage distribution and wealth, and an effective taxation rate for all areas of prosperity. akin reports – in terms of their regional competences and information – would should be submitted a period earlier by voivodships concerning their voivodships.

The work itself should be adequate to change the policy of the executive authority, as deteriorating quality of life indicators will clearly affect the political popularity of the government.

But progressive conservatives should besides insist on a change in the structure of the government, in which a maximum of 3 deputy prime ministers oversee 3 key areas: security, economy and quality of life, which includes the Ministry of Health, Culture, Labour, Education and Infrastructure, which are liable for the provision of public goods.

7. Regional investment policy and improvement programme of micro-region capitals

Governments in Poland do small to endure differences in quality of life between regions and between metropolises and provinces. As a result, tiny and medium-sized cities are falling, the offer of educational, legal or wellness services is deteriorating, and the most talented units decision to large cities. many compensatory measures are needed and a good debate on the future of the province. For deficiency of space below 2 postulates

7.1. Each voivodship should have an yearly quality of life rating for the national average – separate for the metropolis and the remainder of the voivodship. This rating sets the level of possible state support for regional investment. If, for example, the standard of surviving in the region is 45% of the national average, the share of the state in regional investments can be 50% (max allowable in the Union) and, for example, over 80% of the national average - 25%. If wealth exceeds 150% of the national average, the state grant must not be higher than 10%.

7.2. A programme is needed to revitalize the conventional capitals of microregions. There are about 90 cities in Poland, which have been centres of microregions for centuries and are falling today. A comprehensive programme is needed to revitalize these cities, and in peculiar to make them more attractive to professionals: doctors, lawyers, teachers. These cities must besides have an easy connection with the capitals of the voivodships, both road, railway and bus, and a delegation of the provincial administration, which allows to settle simple matters quickly.

8. Security

The safety of Poland and Poles has been thoroughly neglected. We have no shelters, no plans for civilian protection, no trained medical services, and Poland's self-sufficiency in weapons production has fallen from 70% in the period of the Polish People's Republic to about 25%! specified a scale of collapse cannot be simply reversed. Therefore, a strategy of taxation incentives is essential for investors in the Polish arms industry. Polish arms companies should have long-term contracts and at least temporarily be exempted from CIT. Poland should besides insist that, due to long-term negligence throughout the Union, e.g. 5 years of defence spending should not be included in the excessive deficit procedure.

9. investigation on Poland

One of the most amazing phenomena of our country is the fact that Poland is not curious in itself, and the Polish state does not support comprehensive investigation concerning our country. The creative environments have been seeking grants for investigation in creative industries for years. No success. Neither the government nor you were interested. This besides applies to many another areas and phenomena specified as mobility of Poles, vocational education of immigrants, shortages of specialists by region, etc. It is hard to improve the quality of life in Poland erstwhile we do not know precisely where the sources of problems lie and what their scale is in individual regions and across Poland. I so call for the establishment of the Institute for investigation on Poland with an independent budget adopted by the Sejm and subordinated to either the Marshal of the Sejm or the President. due to the fact that if the government does not have this knowledge, nor does it share what it has, and frequently for political reasons it is falsifying uncomfortable data, then a systemic solution is necessary.

10. Climate policy and freedom

The climate is changing and requires painful action to reverse adverse trends. However, European climate policy has mostly been a power and economical advantage game so far. Europe, and Germany in particular, was under the illusion that while falling behind in the fields of innovation, investigation and inventiveness, they could at the same time be a leader in green industries. We already know it didn't happen. Europe is far behind China and the United States, especially after Joe Biden's decision, which has allocated to these industries sums beyond Europe's capacity and, above all, in a very flexible strategy which is unattainable to a bureaucratic Europe. Moreover, the US is 1 country, while the EU is an alliance of sovereign countries of varying sizes and wealth levels, as well as an alliance of equal and equal subsidies from COVID times, as France and Germany, with 44% of the EU's GDP, have seized 70% of the money.

Moreover, respective of the industries promoted by the EU and Germany are making us dependent on China's controlled resources, which puts the future economical and political autonomy of Europe in question, which is already almost entirely about US military protection.

Instead of fixating on inconsistent unit solutions (e.g. electrical cars in an effort by Germany to force the atomic power out), Europe should focus more on general indicators leaving countries with a way to accomplish them. For example, CO2 capture systems are becoming increasingly effective and are a way to accomplish indicators without absurd bans specified as arbitrary ban on fossil fuel cars.

Poland should participate in this debate, remembering that it is not adequate to save the climate to avoid existential threats to civilization and freedom.

11. Energy and water – 2 indicators of survival

Poland has the lowest water resources in Europe, yet governments do nothing about it, thus becoming applicable climate denilists. Poland needs a program to protect, collect and treat water.

Most predictions of possible conflicts between AI and humanity indicate a conflict over energy. AI requires quite a few it, and automation of many processes will facilitate the subordination of AI energy. Poland should be working on an energy strategy which is independent of AI, which is managed by man.

And on the another hand, if we decide to take part in the race to usage AI for economical development, we must focus as shortly as possible on building a fresh energy system. Without excessive energy, investing in AI means that individual else will benefit from the work of Polish engineers and programmers. Therefore, the improvement of atomic energy must accelerate rapidly and the government must multiply the number of future atomic power plants according to the energy request forecasts. At the same time, the modernisation of transmission networks and the construction of energy retention facilities must be carried out as shortly as possible, so that prosumers are not subject to idiotic restrictions on energy production due to network failure and deficiency of retention capacity.

12. wellness services

There is no good quality of life without access to good wellness care. In wellness care, accessibility, advanced quality, prices adapted to the wealth of society are key. These conditions appear to satisfy the Swiss wellness strategy based on compulsory insurance (the poorest helps the state) and the freedom to choose the supplier of wellness services. Competing conglomerates search a client while taking care of the quality and width of the offer. In this system, constitutional access to wellness care is provided by the state by the universality of wellness insurance.

13. Education

Modern forms of education item social skills specified as communication, knowing of cognition acquisition processes and the ability to interact in the task force. In this respect, Polish education is highly outdated, turned backwards into modern and real social needs. Without a decent education building not only individual skills, but besides cooperation skills, it is hard to think about building a modern community and developing social capital. For if the school is simply a race of rats, its graduates will mostly be oriented towards individual success.

14. investigation and Development

Poland cannot be simply a monttown, and consent to drainage of the most capable Polish brains by another countries and global corporations only worsens Poland's improvement prospects. It is essential to step up R & D expenditure and to build a support strategy for the most capable to avoid leaving Poland.

15. Public investment.

The conservationist who is guided by the common good supports public investment, in peculiar regarding safety and infrastructure and straight affecting the quality of life of citizens (e.g. access to energy, clean water and clean air). It is essential to double the rate of public investment from 4% to 8%, of course financed by debt in the country and in its own currency. These investments build the wealth of the country by improving the quality of life of citizens and business efficiency, creating jobs, expanding the competitiveness of the economy without lowering Polish wages. interior debt financing means that interest remains in the country, besides contributing to the increase in wealth, providing our economy, business, banks and our citizens buying fiscal bonds alternatively than abroad ones.

16. Public media

Strong and independent public media are not only a tool for controlling power, but besides a warrant of the right to information, a tool for promoting Polish culture and thanks to adequate funding, a warrant that Polish culture will not be marginalized in our own country. The reconstruction of public media must take place from scratch, which is best shown by the destiny of public media in fresh years and fresh months. Public media must be adapted to modern times, and this besides means adapting to fresh distribution channels. Building modern public media is not a reconstruction of the pre-day structures, but a flexible model for promoting and financing valuable content regardless of who produces them and on which platform they are distributed. Without negating the request for tv and public radio, modern media must realize that the consumption of information and content moves to the network and there will be a game for information safety and the strength of the influence of Polish culture.

17. A serious threat to the future of Poland is sweeping problems under the carpet. A classical example of this is the State's Single Business Policy (JDG).

Pathological distribution of JDG and their privileges threatens the viability of the pension system, the universal wellness service and the state budget, which loses immense amounts annually. The JDG's privileged position is behind the powerful lobby of pseudo-entrepreneurs, who JDG treat as a form of taxation avoidance and shelling. In turn, their privileges make tiny and medium-sized companies gotta push workers into JDG to compete on the market. At 1 time, the State Treasury Company, or tv Polska, ceased to honor workers' wellness and pension insurance as a cost of producing programs and series. It has been followed by private companies and, as a result, the full Polish audiovisual industry, on the 1 hand, is experiencing an incredible period of development, on the another hand, is part of the labour pathology.

Because something needs to start with, I propose a ban on the usage of JDG for the State Treasury companies and an crucial correction in defining what is and what is not individual economical activity. In particular, the definition should pay attention to the number of JDG customers, the scope of the costs written down and the areas in which JDG can operate. A prof. writing expert studies as a JDG, and at the same time having a full time at the university, or an actor with a occupation in theatre issuing an invoice for each spectacle as a JDG, are only 2 examples of pathology.

18. Poland urgently needs funds for improvement and security.

I believe that we should set minimum R & D (R & D) and state safety in the referendum. Otherwise, governments in the face of the crisis will always come up with ways to cheat in areas where there is no direct political effect.

Funds for this intent should besides be raised through

– statutory limitation of 800+ to those in need

– the regulation providing that the NBP profit provides in equal parts only these 2 funds.

Church, Warsaw, August 2024.

Warsaw, 2025.