The sad and demotivating question is: how many citizens of Serbia, after all, believe that all those massive protest marches and gatherings lead nowhere? And here's another one: do all those who are bothered by the Serbian autocracy care about democratic changes at least as much as they want him to stay in power?
Since the election on December 17, protest after protest has been going down, primarily in Belgrade. Citizens are taking to the streets convinced of dirty election business led by evil progressive intentions to manipulate the election result in their favor, above all in Belgrade where they knew they were not doing well. There are not many citizens at the protests, but they seem to be persistent.
The biggest enigma of calling early elections was why a scumbag like Vučić decided to gamble in the city where the biggest money is made, where the most profitable demolitions and constructions are done in the interest of investors connected to the progressives, where enormous capital is turned and turned. The loss of power of the Serbian Progressive Party in Belgrade would be the official beginning of the end of the progressive era.
The real puzzle was the conclusion that the Progressives in Belgrade cannot win, but they cannot lose either. The answer came from Republika Srpska.
And now we are where we are. Marinika Tepić leads a group of oppositionists who are on hunger strike due to the refusal of the institutions to deal with election theft, Serbia Against Violence organizes nightly protests in front of the RIK, the student-youth organization "Borba" has begun to block roads around Belgrade and for Friday announces an all-day protest which should merge into a large protest rally that ProGlas is calling for on Saturday at 12:XNUMX p.m. near the Terazije fountain. What Vladimir Obradović said, it is expected "synergistic effect” of all these protests.
And now comes the famous ali. The reaction of Aleksandar Vučić, which means the entire authorities united around him, to all that - so what!? The same thing so what which marked the past decade and a half as a response to all affairs and affairs, to all protests and demonstrations and blockades and shouts. The tactic has always been the same, and successful: create a parallel reality on the pinks, do nothing and let the various rebels and protesters wander in and blow away.
All relying on the conviction to know whose will to power is stronger (and the position more comfortable): never to them democratic changes will not be enough for him to remain in power.
There is another depressing ali. The question is how many citizens of Serbia really care about that democracy, republic, freedom, independent state institutions... And in particular, how many of them are ready to make even minimal personal sacrifices, for example to allocate a part of their free time for the sake of someone there protest for a better tomorrow? Let alone risk being fired from their job or expose themselves to other inconveniences and risks by publicly expressing disagreement with the current state of society and His country.
And another sad and demotivating question: how many citizens of Serbia, after all, believe that these massive protest marches are leading nowhere?
This is where we reach the entire opposition, not only Serbia Against Violence, and all citizens' associations and organizations that believe that radical changes in Serbia are necessary, and even that it is a question of the state's existence. The pre-election campaign should not stop with the end of the elections, the campaign of instilling faith in the citizens of Serbia that changes are possible had to start on December 18, as if the elections were yet to come. There can be no respite in the clinch with parties that are in an eternal campaign.
The protest rally at the Terazije fountain on Saturday should be the peak of the post-election protests, a demonstration exercise of how much pressure the opposition, both political and mental, can create on the streets.
And then comes New Year, then Christmas, then another New Year, then Saint John, the period when Serbia stops, but not for political reasons. After that, "election theft" will already be last year's news.
Yes, this all sounds like post-election depression, but it's not. If you want to change something, you must first look into the bulging eyes with the facts. And then everything is possible.
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
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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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