Matthew Morawiecki and Sławomir Mentzen were truly fundamental disputes about the imagination of the state. Morawiecki represents the “old system” with his conviction: It is what it is and someway we gotta find ourselves in it. Mentzen (regardless of all his faults) represents a healthy, bottom-up – although mostly intuitive – reaction of Poles who say: Enough! We want a average country!
Two worlds clashed on the phase of the “Beer with Mentzen” event in Warsaw. On the 1 hand, Morawiecki consistently equalled all issue, saying that in another more socialist (and richer) countries there are even worse taxes. On the another hand, an inexperienced politician with Asperger's syndrome, making it hard for him to translate the planet of ideas into the real world.
This was an uneven start from the beginning, and it seems that Morawiecki won, but will we say that erstwhile we put aside his efficient rhetoric and look at only the content of his statements?
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I'm going to go over what was said. Morawiecki first argued that he was arrogant to collect taxes ("tealing" the system), including bank taxation and large-area stores. Great! Finally, the banks colonizing us and abroad commercial corporations got their hands full! But are you sure? Does Mr Morawiecki truly not know or realize that these taxes have been transferred to consumers?
On the occasion Morawiecki planted himself, providing a crowning proof of his socialist identity erstwhile he said, “Should there be money for taxation cuts?” (which Mentzen did not choice up). So in order to reduce 1 tax, you gotta hit others even higher, not lower taxes in a average way, that is, reducing bureaucracy, Mr Morawiecki?
Then, like a populist snake, he slipped out of the question about the emergence of bureaucracy behind PiSu erstwhile in consequence he started talking about... football. Blah, blah, blah – while in fact Mentzen proved to him that he denied himself, saying at the beginning of the governments that the number of pages of government is straight proportional to (unwanted!) the expansion of bureaucracy, and then beating a evidence of the amount of regulation introduced.
An effort to manipulate (de facto compromising Morawiecki) was to accuse the Confederacy that it did not vote in favour of an apparent simplification of the free amount (only to PLN 30 thousand), while this staged change was thrown into the Caducian fresh Łada Act, which Mentzen pointed out.
Importantly, Morawiecki consistently avoided any answer to questions about the state's vision. The fact that as Prime Minister of the Law and Justice, he increased etatism, even in the gathering of the alleged liable improvement strategy mentioned by the host, transferring the burden of economical improvement from Poles to the state.
Instead of referring to the meritum, that is, the fact that PiS refuses Poles the right to a dominant function in its own country, Morawiecki began proving the effectiveness of PiSu as part of their program and as part of their imagination of the state. But this is not the answer to the fact that more and more Poles request a average imagination of the state, not translations of socialists, who will prove to us that they are effective, while the reality around us does not change as in their propaganda of success...
At times, it got ridiculous. For example, erstwhile Mentzen rightly pointed out Morawiecki, that between the technological impulses supported by power and the ability to produce on the free marketplace is simply a gap, at the minute erstwhile the incumbent Morawiecki began proving that... iPhone was created with the participation of the state.
However, the real embarrassment occurred only erstwhile Morawiecki admitted that the Law had passed the Clean Transport Areas Act, after which he had never begun to explain that “there is no warrant”. Which is what? He himself introduced a law on the regulation of freedom of movement, after which he began to populistly criticize Rafał Trzaskowski that he had implemented this law... You will measure this yourself.
There was besides a scandalous minute erstwhile Morawiecki stated that in 2020 he "saved Polish companies". Morawiecki and PiS destroyed Polish business in the era of the alleged pandemic, as confirmed by dozens of judgments of the courts (in the case of unlawful closure of premises), and now alternatively of at least being decently silent, it dares to harm Poles to build lying propaganda. Not seeing you, Mr Morawiecki!
The talkable – and in a comic way – was the end of the conversation. We received a typical mouthpiece between a declared socialist and a chaotic capitalist with a libertarian bite. Mentzen pointed out Morawiecki that his eyes are glowing at the money that Poles earn, and this 1 did not stay in debt, claiming that Mentzen wants social Darwinism and the dominance of banks. Look at you! A professional banker who accuses a free-marketer of favoring banks!
Poland. But what?!
In the Beer with Mentzen, which was attended by the erstwhile Prime Minister, we have, in fact, witnessed a dispute over the basis of the knowing of the state and the relations of the power-citizen. The problem is that Mateusz Morawiecki wriggled like a snake, bringing everything to the peculiarly understood "concrete" and for the full conversation only a fewer times he became obsessed with the right subject.
Mentzen tried to score the interviewer, and this 1 eluded not so much the force of fact as the force of his political experience and rhetorical skill. If individual can read what has fallen in this conversation, and does not succumb to Morawiecki's eloquence, he will see that the politician has exposed himself as a socialist demagogue, which has no Poles to offer any truly fresh quality, which an expanding part of voters expects.
About 20 percent of Poles do not "buy" this organization rhetoric about the fact that post-communist ruling forces carry out any expected historical necessity, doing what they do. There is simply a increasing number of Poles who want a average state, not an eloquent translation, that "Poles did not happen". More and more people wake up and no longer want a false alternative: PiS-PO. These people, Mateusz Morawiecki has nothing to offer.
I am not saying that Mentzen's "vision" is simply a cure for all evil. The point is that in any Poles the intuition woke up, that there is simply a order that is radically different from the erstwhile one. Mentzen is only in any (imperfect) measurement an expression of this idea. Might as well have individual else standing by the microphone. The most crucial thing is that there is an nonsubjective order that has been radically lied to by the statistic governments. And people are starting to feel it. We just request to remind you that this has not always been the case – that in the past of humanity there was a belief that society has its autonomy and power has powers limited to respective circumstantial issues. This is not a libertarian "invention" of any kind of "state minimum" explanation – this is simply a imagination flowing from the natural order, and this is the basic fact about the world, which in the highest degree disturbs the incumbents, both from the Law and the PO.
If we want a average country that is based on the strength of free citizens, then we must halt tolerating the belief that a "real policy" can be completely alienated from the ethical category and can impunityfully ignore all healthy political concepts.
Matthew Morawiecki is the winner of the clash, and Poles whose views and will have been expressed by Mentzen – they are incorrect idealists, who should let their eyes down and with eyes shamefully thrown into the ground admit: Yes, Mr Morawiecki, you are right, stands behind you experience, and what we believe is impossible to implement on the basis of real politics.
Meanwhile, the acceptance of specified a tyranny of idealism is weakening in part of society. We begin to think that politics should, however, have timeless (and cross-party) rules. Another thing is how to put it into practice with specified a degenerate system. But let us not let ourselves be told that what is hard to introduce is no longer right and true. In average reality, certain things (like the fact that statism and socialism are inherently wrong) would be obvious.
Therefore, as environments that have not forgotten what it truly means to usage reason, let us fight for nonsubjective fact to be always separated from subjective conditions. What is between the right principles of natural law and current political realities is the way we gotta go. We request to find the means to implement these rules effectively. But where will we find ourselves if we are blackmailed by false realists and let ourselves be told that there is no nonsubjective order for a discreet man to submit to?
The difficulty in the implementation of the vision, if it is right in its assumptions, is not a weakness of the vision, but simply a visionary, possibly a strategy in which it came to operate. These are the weaknesses we gotta overcome. But in terms of rules, we must stay uncompromising.
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