I come from the presumption that we are all more or little the dirty tools of Divine Providence. The same is actual of Donald Trump, the same is actual even though it sounds frightening, Vladimir Putin. We're all tools, not Soros, but God's. That's how Plato described it beautifully in his “Dialogue of the Law” and, of course, the Christian religion calls us to realize our place in a line – says prof. Andrzej Nowak in an interview with PCh24.pl.
Dear Professor, do you remember the slogan "Let us not make politics, let us build bridges"?
Of course I do.
Many Poles fell for them. Many believed that politics could be abandoned, that there was a time of post-politics, that is, “building bridges” and “richness”. But can politics be abandoned erstwhile everything is politics?
As usual, at this time of the corner, I'm working with Plato's students. On the day we talk, I discussed a passage from Book 5 in class, where Plato writes with an exclamation mark: “There is nothing like the art of contradictory claims, that is power.”
Of course, Plato writes this ironically criticizing “the art of contradictory claims”, the art of forging reality.
"The art of contradictory claims" was brought to absolute, shocking and terrifying perfection by Donald Tusk and supporting media.
The slogan "Let's not make politics, let's build bridges" mentioned by your editor was the first timid step in the way of building an alternative, that if, for example, we are participating in elections, we support a organization that is seriously trying to present various political issues, we are hindering the construction of bridges. The false choice is simple: either politics or bridges.
This is simply a contradictory false statement, due to the fact that politics does not necessarily gotta interfere with bridge building. This may be the case, but in no case is it a essential alternative.
A twelve years ago, erstwhile the slogan "Let's not make politics, let's build bridges" celebrated triumphs, it was to show Donald Tusk, a man who was president of a peculiar political party, as individual who does not represent a politician who is outside politics. This was first of all the argument, which was completely absurd, completely contrary to reality.
Today we are much further. The simplest example: the most accused of pro-putin attitude by a powerful propaganda camera accompanying Donald Tusk and Tusk himself – including his next hateful entries on the X-platform – a party, is the organization that helped halt Putin's offensive in east Europe, providing instant and immense aid Ukraine at the minute of deadly threat, that is, the first days after Russian aggression in February 2022.
I besides call on this to draw attention to the last exchange of entries on platform X between Minister Sikorski – a good student of the School of Unreality – who urged Elon Musk to give what is due, that is, respect to the Polish government, who saved Ukraine by buying from Musk Starlinka, that is, this very crucial information and intelligence infrastructure.
As we know, this ended with Musk's attention to the smallness and incompleteness of this argument by Minister Sikorski and Prime Minister Tusk's comment that PiS attacked our minister by standing de facto Putin's side. First of all, there was no comment on the part of the Law and Justice, which means that we are already dealing with a complete unreality. I am not afraid to say that this is 1 of many examples of full lie! Lies that haven't happened since Stalin in Poland! Second: the reality is that these Starlinks for Ukraine were bought by Orlen Daniel Obietek and the government of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. The government of Donald Tusk did not do it, the minister of Sikorski did not do it, only if anyone had Ukraine or Mr Elon Musk for buying Starlinks for Ukraine to thank, that is Jarosław Kaczyński, Prime Minister Morawiecki and Daniel Obatek. 3 bevelled noires, or monsters inactive smeared as putinists, bastards, bullies by Donald Tusk's propaganda.
I callback this due to the fact that we see that there is inactive no bottom. There is an always worse bottom achieved in this lie and manipulation by Donald Tusk. Let me remind you that in the next entry, after the exchange of entries between Sikorski and Musk, Tusk called PiS – again PiS! – moral bankrupts. This is completely unrelated to nothing in reality, but it is connected in 100 percent to phraseology, which has not appeared in the Polish political debate since the times of the Polish PPR Bolesław Bierut and Józef Stalin. At the time there was a very strong category of "moral bankrupts" who sent soldiers of the AK and the civilian population of Warsaw to die for German tankers. At the time, the phrase was used: "moral bankrupts – political leaders of the AK".
This was then repeated in March 1968, erstwhile they spoke of "moral bankrupts" who with disoriented youth led against the party. And the last time, but much softer, much softer than Donald Tusk does, specified a light echo appeared in the state of war. And now we are going back to specified shocking methods of lying to reality, specified shocking methods of reversing reality by 180 degrees, sinking people into a bubble of lies from which there is no way out.
Because if individual hears these lies for so many years, gradually escalating, then he won't back down. If these entries of Prime Minister Tusk immediately have several, respective dozen, respective tens of thousands of "likes", and they are most likely not just any bots, they are authentic followers of this course, then this simple message will not scope them: "Then check out who bought these Starlinki".
These people will not only check, they will say: “We are dealing with either choice, we are building bridges with our unpolitical prime minister, or we are choosing moral bankrupts from PiSu who are putinists and Stalinists.”
On 11 March the “Gazeta Wyborcza” could read the large title of the text by Mr Mark Beylin, “PiS and Trump are Communists and Stalin”. Okay, you can still... But what does that gotta do with reality? This is written by a man who is the boy of a very advanced officer of the Stalinist communist organization in Poland. So possibly he knows what he's saying, or alternatively he knows how to lie.
Perhaps therefore, Professor, the slogan "Let's not make politics, let's build bridges" should be somewhat modified as "Let's not make politics, let's troll". Today, unfortunately, Polish political life, and I say this with large regret, is taking place around the next trolling entry of Tusk, Sikorski, Szczerba and the remainder of coalition politicians on 13 December. You don't even gotta build bridges anymore. It's adequate to say that possibly 1 day this will be done...
You're right. alternatively of bridges, you can build respective footbridges, which in the end will be more costly than bridges, but possibly we should leave it.
Here again we can mention to a peculiar example, this time the erstwhile Prime Minister of Hungary, who lost luckyly in Hungary. I am not saying that the current government in Hungary is without defects, but that is not my point.
I am referring to Mr Ferenc Gyurcsány, who said in 1 conversation that became public: “We lied, we lie and we will lie.” I think it's the trolling you're asking for, it's a concrete figure of something old like the world, but brought to a level that the planet has never seen before, a lie.
Donald Tusk and those who are his powers, due to course he is not the manager here – they base their power on a lie.
If Elon Musk wrote on the X platform about Mr. Sikorski that he was a puppet of Soros Jr., he pointed out a certain phenomenon, namely: those characters who seem to us to be foreground are frequently puppets of much more powerful forces than they are, which safe them in confronting reality. due to the fact that the amount of terrible things Radosław Sikorski did, for example, as a diplomat who should regulation him out of politics erstwhile and for all, is immense and what? And it was so blurry, manipulated that it actually disappeared, evaporated, and yet Sikorski is the man who greeted Prime Minister Putin before the most lying speech concerning the past of the 20th century that took place on Polish dirt in the last 25 years. I am talking about Putin's speech on Westerplatte on September 1, 2009, where Putin stated that the Second War was justified due to the fact that Germany and Russia were hurt and had to communicate.
Minister Sikorski then welcomed Putin with a immense article in “Gazeta Wyborcza” in which he wrote that “Russia has never adhered to specified a liberal and democratic value as at this moment.” And what happened “at this moment” in Russia? They were killed in a prison in Moscow Magnicki, a prof. of past who dealt with gulag etc was put in prison. And all of this was written by the same “Gazeta Wyborcza” in the same issue in which she printed an article by Radosław Sikorski.
The same Radosław Sikorski did not only lead this reset policy with pride and emphasized that he was a pioneer. Now he says he followed Barack Obama, that the Americans were the first.
The same Radosław Sikorski congratulated and thanked the Americans erstwhile the Nord Stream 2 pipeline blew up. Even if it were actual that the Americans did it, it is hard to have a more bright anti-diplomatic behaviour of the erstwhile and future abroad minister. due to the fact that I realize that this was definitely a hidden operation that you don't compose about in specified a way if you're head of the MFA of any country, especially since we inactive don't know if that's what the Americans did. For me, this is shocking and embarrassing completely for a man who would like to run for diplomatic functions.
And Russia “heated” the Sikorski entry caused by your prof. for many weeks...
Exactly! Minister Zacharowa, or Minister of the Russian Ministry of abroad Affairs, was just congratulating Minister Sikorski that individual had yet told the truth...
Why am I quoting these fewer examples from hundreds, from thousands that can be cited?
Because they did not harm Radosław Sikorski. He is inactive portrayed as the most prominent statesman, the only Pole whom the planet listens to, as a large figure.
And this shows, indeed, that there are powerful forces that environment specified a man who has made himself the most embarrassing, worst abroad minister you can even imagine. However, he is treated as a prominent statesman.
This shows the strength of these secret payers; those who can defend and aid the inhabitants of these media bubbles so tight and so effective that they let to change the day's message within 1 hour. 1 example: Donald Tusk, before going to the summit in London, convened by Prime Minister Keira Starmer on the relation between America and Europe, published an entry in which he suggested that anyone who supports Trump in Poland is simply a proputinian 5th column. After a fewer hours, Donald Tusk sends another message: our most crucial task is to keep the best possible relation with the United States. Keeping up with this changing line is not easy for a average man, yet any keep up. These are the prisoners of this super lie. And that's the most terrifying thing for me.
15 years ago, ARCANA magazine published a prophetic essay by Mr. You pointed out that in the following years it will be “the same, only more” and so it happened. You recall, among others, the words of erstwhile finance minister Jacek Rostowski, who stated that Poland was safe, that we were never safer. So let's take the money that's in the military budget and build bridges. The reality verified what Rostowski's "analysis" was worth, but the trend was preserved – "Let us not make politics, let us build bridges". Couldn't halt it?
The point is, virtuality is to triumph completely over reality...
And here we could mention to another text by your prof. published after the 2007 parliamentary elections, in which you pointed out that we must argue “the real Poland of virtual Poland” ... Unfortunately, “virtual Poland” inactive wins...
Yeah, but let's not be completely negative. Indeed, we are seeing an increase in this phenomenon. This is depressing and is about to have the effect of feeling helpless on our side.
So what if I made an argument? So what if I appeal to a fact that's very easy to verify, like what I said about the Starlins. 1 can check who bought them, erstwhile they bought them, how much they bought them etc., and the followers of “Polish virtual” will compose otherwise, that PiS is simply a putin party.
So you can check it out, and at the same time you can see it's not going to work. If we announce this, he won't face any answers, just a avalanche of fresh lies and names. And that's expected to make us feel hopeless. We're gonna lower our hands.
We can't capitulate this avalanche of lies. We must consistently defend reality.
In consequence to a mass lie in the Stalinist times, which now returned, as far as the lie was concerned, Alexander Wat, a once-known communist poet who, after experiences of prisons and camps in Russia, changed his attitude towards communism, wrote a poem. It was a poem about the prisoner of this Stalinist system, who did not want to consider the nonsubjective existence of parzota at all costs, i.e. the "objective reason of the current line dictated by Comrade Stalin". The hero of Wat's poem refused to believe. He was thrown into prison, tortured, etc., and he inactive didn't believe. We should be like the hero of Wat's poem. We cannot let ourselves say that the current announcement of the day, changing all half hour, is actual and only true. No! No! We must cling to reality and, in addition, keep the hope that most people will keep this reaction in matters that are not abstract to them. It's not about a organization line, it's about whether there's more unemployment or less. Can I get a occupation for the same wage I could have found last year or not? Can my kids find this occupation or not? How much more costly is maintaining now than last year? Are the prospects for economical improvement in the simplest way that translates into my individual prospects and my household better or worse? Is the prospect, for example, of subtraction or limitations of 800+, about which we talk more openly, going to be good for me or bad? Is the possible of cadastral tax, which inactive comes back as a subject good or bad? And so on.
We all know that if the Platform and its vice-presidents win, they can pass everything. They will be able to pass even 3 times higher cadastral taxes than in another Western European countries. They can do anything. They can announce that the sun is rising in the West. Everything will be legal.
However, I think that these concrete, tangible issues will origin reality to win untruth in the upcoming presidential elections. Not under any large slogans, but in fact it is the top and most crucial thing to defend reality from untruth. I hope we're close to this critical point.
That would mean, sir, that we make our own decisions. But whether it truly is, given how many powerful forces there is “something to play” – more or little – in Poland. Berlin, Brussels, Washington, Moscow, Jerusalem, Kiev...
I come from the presumption that we are all more or little the dirty tools of Divine Providence. The same is actual of Donald Trump, the same is actual even though it sounds frightening, Vladimir Putin. We're all tools, not Soros, but God's. That is how Plato described this beautifully in his “Dialogue of the Law” and of course the Christian religion calls us to realize our place in a line.
And so even the Berlin authorities, if we imagine it that way, any powerful German lobby or a powerful Israeli lobby or any another Russian lobby, do not yet find the destiny of the world. That's my perspective.
Secondly, we benefit from the blessing of a situation whose comparative value, but essential, was emphasized by St Augustine. We don't live in civitas terrena, which would be 1 planet country. It is not specified a country as the United Nations or the European Union at least for now... The editor himself mentioned respective centres of influence. Here Berlin does not talk precisely the same voice as Washington, sometimes speaks the same way as Moscow, sometimes Washington speaks the same way as Moscow, but it is not an absolutely well-rounded performance at all point, only everyone has their interests here and this simple fact makes itself, as the Anglo-Saxons say, Window of chance for us. It means: different force forces work on Poland. In Stalinist times, it was so much harder that there was only 1 force of force and no alternative, and it was a very brutal force – a directive of the ambassador from Moscow. Now a fewer ambassadors here will be acting, and as long as they don't agree in the details of everything between themselves, and I think it's a very unreal scenario, so long as we've kept any space of our own doing.
But above all, I believe, and this is the last ceiling on which I want to present this optimistic answer to your question, due to course I admit to you that all these influence factors are strong and that possibly the most engaged and able to invoke the strongest certain emotions and structures of influence of Berlin and Brussels, due to the fact that we are a associate of the European Union, so it is clear to us that intervention from Brussels or Berlin is almost final in contrast to the American one, due to the fact that this influence is from the outside, so these influences are actually very strong, but I would say they can do very much and will do, I am convinced, very much, to win their candidate friendly to their interests.
But if the triumph of reality is clear, then falsifying, reversing or questioning specified a verdict will be difficult. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's gonna be hard.
In case 1 of the candidates wins, let's say, by a majority of e.g. 100 1000 votes, it will be fabulously easy to reverse this consequence according to the needs of the powerholders. In the case of a difference of 1 million votes or more, I think that then we will have a chance to defend reality.
We request to mobilize to defend the real result of these elections and to make our votes, our activity against these elections as much as possible so that this election consequence is as clear as possible. Not just 1 vote there, but 1 truly must search a clear victory.
I know now someone's gonna knock on the head, what a large win, that's impossible. I'm sorry, but as 1 U.S. ultimate Court judge, Brandeis, Irresistible is frequently only that which is not maintained, which is inevitable is what we are not trying to defend ourselves from.
Let's effort to defend ourselves from the script that the editor was talking about. This is simply a very real scenario, but it is not inevitable.
However, Professor, specified voices that it is the Americans, Germany or Jews who will elect us president besides very frequently appear in people who are hard to fishy of acting in favour of “Polish virtual”. Doesn't that prove that we have a terrible crisis of democracy? Or is it that democracy is burned out and all we have left is trolling and lies?
I think what the editor is talking about is alternatively a crisis of independence. The crisis of democracy, which is indeed taking place in very many European countries, has found its threshold, the threshold of hope, I would say, for which 1 can, however, see any possible of defending democracy in the United States. That's where democracy won. No irony, no jokes, no subtext. Democracy won in America.
There was 1 favorite, or alternatively 1 media favorite, celebrity, powerful wheels, and she lost. The man who was authentically chosen by the Americans...
But here in a delicate contrast, I answer: if the man the Americans chose to win, why so many cars and factories? Tesla is set on fire by opponents Donald Trump, whose electoral support was given to Elon Musk. Is this what democracy is expected to be like? individual disagrees with the result of the election, so he'll set fire to, destruct and exposure others to harm and large losses?
That's the reality today. I'm not saying it's not there, I'm saying there's a very clear electoral verdict. In addition, the 1 who benefits from this verdict, the winner in the election, pursues a point by point with the extraordinary consequence of the election contract he concluded with the voters. He's doing his program.
Let me remind you, this program did not talk in 1 passage of Make Ukraine large Again, or Make Poland large Again. He only talked about 1 thing. Make America large Again. Of course, individual can argue, but it's actually bad for Trump. OK, but voters voted not only for the slogan, but for the very concrete promises that all of them with an astonishing consequence carry out by Donald Trump. This is what democracy should be like. There are elections, the candidate in the election presents the program and then implements it.
In our case, the Citizen Platform is precisely the opposite. Let me remind you, even the celebrated promise of Donald Tusk's years ago, that under no circumstances will he let the yard to fall. And the first thing he did after taking over the government in 2007 was open the way to the collapse of these shipyards. This is an example of Donald Tusk's extraordinary consequence in failing to keep his promises.
You can see that democracy is at a crossroads. What happened in America was for me a sign of optimism that democracy, at least in this most crucial country for her, could defend itself for now.
On the another hand, erstwhile I talk to my colleagues in Germany, Austria, the UK, that is where I see a dramatic crisis of democracy. There's an election, so what? In Austria, for example, a peculiar organization was won, which was to form a government, and the winning organization was not allowed to form a government for the second time. I'm trying to get distant from whether we like this organization or not. The democratic verdict was clear.
W Germany had just been elected, in which the crushing defeat suffered the parties that formed the coalition to date. What? And we have practically the same coalition rebuilt against the vote of voters. That means democracy works at all.
In the UK, the Conservative Party, so-called, consistently spoke of the fact that it would halt illegal migration and 3 consecutive times in a row in 3 consecutive elections, not only failed to implement this promise, but it did precisely the opposite.
That's what caused him to vanish right now. I think that in the next election there will be no Conservative organization in the UK, which is any symbol of the crisis of democracy, due to the fact that in the United Kingdom this modern organization strategy begins and the Conservative organization is 1 of its oldest pillars, due to the fact that liberals have long since disappeared, and the Leverage came much later. Now the Conservatives disappear.
So that means that there is simply a crisis of democracy, due to the fact that I am not talking about the Polish example, due to the fact that it is obvious...
But it may be worth calling up a Polish example, where we hear, due to the fact that for many years, that the Law and Justice should be banned. This is to be done by the court, the TEU is to applaud it and the Virtual Poland will be delighted.
Imagine that in the United States, the Republican organization declared: “we are legalising the democratic party.” Or vice versa, the Democratic organization announced: “we are delegalizing the Republican Party”. This can be done, only this is the denial of the essence of democracy, and especially the denial of the essence of liberal democracy, which proclaims the protection of the rights of minorities. The opposition and the possible that in the next election or in the 2 elections, the opposition will take power so that power does not corrupt itself to the rest. Donald Tusk, on the another hand, clearly says: erstwhile we have gained power, we will never give up; the main opposition organization we will delegalize, and the second opposition organization of the Confederate we call fascist. Why? Because... erstwhile the PiS is delegated, the fascists will just go to jail and that's it.
This is, of course, the end of democracy, but I think that is why the upcoming presidential elections are so crucial that we do not let this strategy to close erstwhile it can be announced, any thing about your editor, me, any citizen. I'm not even saying that we can be identified as fascists, putinists, Nazis, etc., but it can be announced that, for example, you are a long-legged blonde, and I am a six-year-old kid who needs to be addressed to kindergarten. A horse can be declared a senator... You can announce everything you have power...
God bless the conversation.
Mr Tomasz D. Kolaek
