Photo: Milica Vučković/FoNetFurther brutalizing public life has only one purpose. It is an attempt to frustrate the participants of the protest gatherings due to the lack of tangible changes in the state and society so far. Can Vučić and the team get away with it?
Željko Mitrović threatens an even bigger and blacker "Cooperative". Progressive MPs are setting new standards of vulgarity and hate speech. Aleksandar Vučić himself rudely insults the European Union in front of the President of Slovenia, Nataša Pirc. Even the open calls for the lynching of the actors are not abating...
The trend is clear - the crisis in society is deliberately caused by the regime to become white hot. After losing the initiative for more than a month, the President of Serbia launched an offensive. It responds to protests against violence in society by increasing violence.
Does Vučić know what he is doing? He is convinced that he knows. Certain surveys of public opinion indicate that his rating is stable or slightly lower than before the tragedies of May 3 and 4. You can't do anything to me like a frog to a hazelnut, that's why he tells the citizens at the protests. His goal is to exhaust and frustrate them due to the lack of tangible results of the gathering so far, so that in due time they disperse and give up their demands.
However, Vučić is not a problem in the eyes of the majority electorate: his brutal propaganda convinces them that he is the one who feeds and feeds, clothes and shoes. The position of the Serbian Progressive Party is completely different. Even her voters consider most progressive cadres to be extremely dubious and needlessly enriched types. And in crises, the latter tend to passivize or combine in order to protect everything they have gained by half-heartedness, spinelessness and "getting by". Namely, the SNS Presidency is not united by ideology or common values, but by mere personal interests.
That is why Vučić does not leave the television studios. On the one hand, he wants to demoralize his opponents, and on the other - even more so - to militarize and encourage the party apparatus. Hence the scandal of the president of Serbia at the press conference with the president of Slovenia and the labeling of public figures on television; hence the progressive "Cooperative" in the Assembly; hence the provocative announcement by Željko Mitrović... Because as long as Vučić keeps telling his party that nothing has changed, it will reciprocate.
None of them care what the consequences of that toxic policy will be. And why would you? Only in modern barbarism do they feel protected and at home.
Can they get away with it? If morality means anything in politics and public life, the answer is no. No pasaran!
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