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Forgive me, Jarosław, for addressing you by your first name, even though we never had the opportunity to drink brudenszaft, and I hope you will understand the reasons why I will not use the words "dear" or "esteemed" before your name.

In my letter to you, Jarosław, I do not intend to persuade, urge or call you to do anything. I was prompted to write this letter by the turn of the year and the associated thrill of emotions released at the thought of what is coming – something new, unknown, but certainly better. I have an irresistible feeling, bordering on certainty, that in 2022, the project, the implementation of which you began in November 2015, will come to an end and go on eternal watch.

How has your project changed Poland over the last six years? Education, healthcare, economy, rule of law, minority rights, and so on. Has anything changed for the better in any of these areas? Has there been a positive breakthrough or at least a few steps towards a better future. Unfortunately, no. There has been regression everywhere. Over the last six years, you have ruined everything you have touched. And since your vision of Poland assumed changing everything, everything has been ruined.

There is one, only thing that must be honestly given to you. It is money, in the form of 500+ and additional pensions for people who really need it. However, it was a great manipulation, because your intention was not to help the two million poorest Poles, but to buy fifteen million electoral votes for the purpose of gaining and maintaining power. The side effect of these expensive purchases is precisely the help for the poorest. This is the only good thing you did.

Through Ziobro's hands, you have perpetrated a great manipulation of the justice system. You have convinced Poles that the judiciary is full of post-communist deposits and dishonest judges who steal drills from supermarkets, which is the cause of protracted trials and unjust verdicts. In reality, you only wanted to subordinate the justice system to yourself, so that you could cover up the dishonesty of your government and decide on the verdicts issued. You have filled the Constitutional Tribunal with obedient executors of your decisions, pretending to be judges and shouting around how independent and independent they are.

You lowered the retirement age for Poles, presenting yourself as a ruler concerned about the fate of citizens, concealing from people that although they will work less, they will still enjoy starvation pensions. This is your next manipulation. Cheaply bought electoral votes and this with money paid by the seller, who is not aware that the bill will be paid in old age.

With the participation of the hierarchy, you are responsible for the fall of the Catholic Church in Poland and the mass turning away of people from the church. Their merit is debauchery and covering up and the inability to settle accounts with pedophilia, and yours is the welding of the church with the state and its secret financing. Faith is important and necessary for Poles, but in their hearts. Less for some, more for others, not at all for others. By trying to impose on Poles how they should believe, you are achieving the exact opposite effect. It seems to me, Jarosław, as if you do not understand this at all.

You have also done great harm to women by forcing them to give birth to disabled children. That is your decision alone. If you yourself were capable of giving birth to a dead fetus, no one should prevent you from bringing it into the world and then baptizing it. That should be your decision alone. You would have the full and exclusive right to do so. However, you made the decision to force women to do so. That is inhumane.

You have said many times that whoever has television has power, and that it is difficult to gain power without having control over television. You are not a pioneer in this respect, because your predecessors, after 1989, shared your view to a greater or lesser extent. However, in terms of the level of primitivism, flattery and dullness, your propaganda, developed by the hands of Jacek Kurski, has no equal in the entire post-war history of Polish, Belarusian and Soviet television.

You spoke so beautifully about the honesty of politicians, about the fact that one does not go into politics for the money. At the same time, you turned a blind eye to the scams, the overthrows and shady deals, nepotism, filling the most important and best-paid positions in state-owned companies with mediocrities, on a scale disproportionate to the value of the dirt that your predecessors were involved in after 1989, comparable perhaps only to the scale of corruption in Russia and Belarus. I would bet my hand that your thinking is like this: "my soldiers do steal, but they share with people, that's why I can sleep peacefully."

It's disgusting, Jarek, how you exclude, incite, and depreciate others who think differently than you, strangers. Have you ever wondered, Jarek, what a gay or lesbian feels in a city where an LGBT-free zone has been declared? Do you really think that someone who has discovered their homosexual orientation would want to impose it on others? Do you think that homosexuality is really a threat to the Polish family? Can our border be protected only if human rights are violated? Are you pretending to think so, in order to please the uglier side of our society, or do you really think so?

I am terribly ashamed, Jarek, of what you have done to the image of our Poland in Europe. This is your personal merit. We are perceived as a large country, with a beautiful, difficult history, which played a fundamental role in driving communism out of our part of Europe, which managed to return to European civilization, and which in the last six years has begun to question, in a way that is incomprehensible to Europe, the basic principles on which the European community was built. I know, Jarek, you believe that Europe is moving away from its Christian roots, and only Poland, maybe together with Hungary, is able to save Europe from the flood of leftism.

The biggest problem I have, Jarek, is how you divided Poles. The division into "us" who are better and "them" who are worse is mainly your doing. You think that your point is more important and you don't need to talk, and if someone thinks or speaks differently than you, it means that they are worse. You are proud and arrogant. You know?

But your project has started to fall apart. You have lost control and steering, Jarek. I think you overdid it a bit with your promises, what you gave at the beginning has probably devalued a bit, and the pandemic and inflation have probably thwarted your plans a bit. I think there are also too many centrifugal forces rocking your boat. Ziobro, who would like to become a better you so much, anti-sanitary people who do not want to agree to limiting freedom, eurosceptics who would like more serious moves against the Union, officers who want more money and positions in exchange for keeping up appearances, and all sorts of kukizy and mejzy, on whom your majority hangs. And on top of that, in the last days of the old year, your most loyal supporter stabbed you in the back by vetoing the lex-TVN bill, because he probably understood that you should no longer bet on a horse that has irretrievably lost its strength.

Your recent actions are starting to resemble wandering in desperation. A bit like the movements of a worm that is being flushed down the toilet. Except it looks like the flush button was not pressed by the nation, but by you, tripping over your own feet, losing control of your own party and the plan to implement your vision.

In 1994, you gave an interview to the outstanding journalist Teresa Torańska. She asked you: "Who would you like to be? Minister of Justice, Prime Minister, President?" You answered: "I would like to be the retired savior of the nation."

I'm afraid, Jarek, that you probably won't succeed. As a human being, I even sympathize with you that a significant part of your plans, very bad for Poland, have failed. However, I wish you a peaceful retirement.