"We will chase them through the streets," prophesied Jovo Bakić, and many believed him to be right. Now the reverse is happening - the progressive Sturmabteilung is thrashing the people in the streets, houses and bars. And our bazaar abhors "all violence" for the most part
Professor Jovo Bakić proved to be an unsuccessful politician. Twice he joined left-wing parties and twice left. One of those parties merged into the party of Dragan Đilas, the other remained hopelessly marginalized. Like the entire left in Serbia, after all.
However, Jovo Bakić himself was not marginalized even though there were attempts. Moreover, look on YouTube, for example - his guest appearances are among the most popular.
"We will chase them through the streets" - because of that famous sentence, which he likes to repeat, some people adore him, while others claim that he only gives ammunition to the regime. The tabloid press and progressive champions demonize him because of it.
Who is chasing who?
It would be an exaggeration to call Bakić an "ideologue". The image of "running through the streets" is rather a kind of analysis - if the regime is pushing things to the end, if there is nowhere else to go, then it can only be the most urgent. And it won't be sweet. Bakić says.
But these days I wonder if Jovo Bakić, apart from being a failed politician, is also perhaps a failed analyst?
Because, no matter how many likes and applause he gets, no matter how many hundreds of thousands of people give him his right and think that there is no other way than for everyone to reach for their own subash, to be "fried" and "riding", no matter how much enthusiasm there is for the folk methods in Nepal - in reality in Serbia, the opposite is happening.
"Vreme" writes about it generously in the new issue, which was concluded before the thugs-haters at "Marakana" beat the people who came with their children to watch their national team, and shouted something against the government here and there.
While gendarmes trample and pour tear gas on the streets, informal phalanxes come to people's doorsteps. They fight in bars and workshops, burn bars and newsstands, and live in colleges and schools. They even came to Riga to discipline basketball fans.
Headbutting
Political scientist Dejan Bursać writes on Twitter that this is a crazy tactic - beating people in the stadium, in front of fifty thousand eyewitnesses and who knows how many mobile phone cameras. That people will react to injustice.
And they will, but how? Another walk? Blocking the street? Gandhi's resistance and waiting for more people to be crushed? Yes, maybe someone gets killed?
In other words, how many more, literally, heads will be broken until the regime is figuratively hit on the head?
Paradoxically, while in the analysis many agree that the matter will have to end by "running through the streets", few are ready for the real fuss. You have to get a baton and stand up to the bullies, it's not easy, and it's not normal either.
But a good part of our bazaar still lives in Disneyland. He describes every raising of the guard as a "provocation by the police" and "undermining peaceful protests". They repeat the papacy about "inserted elements" for which no evidence has been offered. It is difficult for them to accept that out of the half of Serbia that is in rebellion, there are also a few who, after all, are fed up with Gandhi's methods. And there really aren't many of them.
The regime's Sturmabteilung will continue to chase people through the streets, wait for them in haustors and at the workplace, silence them with beatings. So who can last longer.
Perhaps Jovo Bakić would say that the time has not yet come for his script, but that it will come. Only, in order for it to come true, someone would have to go first, if by then they are not all crushed.
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At the moment when the institutions of the Republic are destroyed, when Vučić's octopus is still alive, when people are disgusted by the injustice and the stench left behind by the Essenes regime, we have, as Machiavelli said, only civic virtue as the fuel with which we can return to the beginning
The four independent members of REM are an example of perseverance and civic responsibility. Rodoljub Šabić even, upon leaving the premises of REM, after the sentencing of the Informer, experienced that the Essenes insulted him, hit him with their hands and feet. But that too will soon be over
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