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Student protests: Vučić, foil someone else

December 13, 2024, 09:31 p.m Andrei Ivanji
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Whatever Vučić says or does, more and more faculties are blocked and more and more students are on the streets. That complete disregard for the Great Leader and absence of fear, that resistance to abnormality can be contagious

Anyone interested in Serbia can live witness the clash of representatives of two worldviews: those young, energetic, decent, smiling ones who inspire hope for normality - students who seethe, and those who seem to be permanently besieged by retrograde Mercury, to the core of the corrupt, lying, psychotic and distorted who carry the banner with the image Aleksandar Vučić.

And the majority of Serbian citizens, uninterested in anything other than their daily bread and pink "Elite", are beginning to notice that the country is not a monolithic, farting clay mass, that some young people are not at all afraid of the debauched local sheriffs who drive around overpriced cars, and in front of which those, who would not be offended, stand with their heads bowed.

And that those children don't give a single penny for the great, beloved Leader, who works hard to inspire respect for the old, because they see him for what he is: a fool and a fraud.

The leader is Mr

Opposition members of parliament and councilors in this balancing of forces try as much as they can to young people by putting their heads in front of the shields of members of the Gendarmerie and the Police Brigade, but with their political activism they are nowhere near able to move things in society, as students succeed with their natural, youthful reaction to Almighty: Vučić, let the fool go!

With their natural disdain for the president of the state who rode all the institutions, and whom they saw as a manipulator whose performances provoked ridicule in them, they achieved what is the greatest fear of those who rule by sowing fear: they showed that they are not at all afraid of him, and that it can be contagious.

The Seselje trail is bursting, bursting

It is far from the fact that Vučić and the Vučić family are finished, but, as if in a closed vessel in which a boil has ripened, suddenly instead of obeying the will of the leader, everywhere they turn they encounter resistance: among teachers, professors and rectors, farmers and actors, in Advokatska chambers of Vojvodina and Serbia, in the Republic Institute for the Protection of Monuments - among students and high school students...

Whistles and whistles of students penetrate through the media darkness, which has enveloped large parts of Serbia.

And that lithium project "Jadar" is hanging over Vučić's head, people will not want it, not even his own.

Observers and movers

Police officers, prosecutors, judges, members of the service, civil servants, all those who, despite their professional conscience, have been obeying the progressive party orders for years, fearing the consequences or losing their privileges, see all this.

It is not in the nature of people to hang their heads for the sake of justice, equity and truth. Most always watch what is happening and keep their mouths shut, until the moment comes when the fear of retribution is twisted in the crowd. That is why history is full of dictatorships, dictators and Vučić.

Things in society are set in motion by individuals who sometimes become historical figures, but most often remain anonymous for their bravery.

Student protest: Courage to think for oneself

However, it is not in the nature of people to suffer insults and to survive, to obey and swallow stones. Sometimes the need to feel free prevails over the injected fear. This is what history teaches us.

And when the phallic farce of Serbian democracy and equality breaks, overnight many will ask themselves: how is it possible that we have suffered for so long that they ride us, decorate our landscapes and caress before our eyes the enormous riches, dividing among themselves as a spoil the goods that belong to everyone. No one in this country is so blind that they don't even see it, if the majority doesn't care about the highest achievement of civilization - democracy.

What next

Serbian everyday life is so abnormal in so many segments, that this progressive system must break once, despite the virtuoso populism of Aleksandar Vučić, who has mastered all Machiavellian methods.

Whether it is this moment is, however, questionable.

There is no political change without political parties, and those who are for change are in an unenviable state. There is no successful resistance movement without a leader leading it, and the vanities of the presidents of the opposition parties are still too pronounced to obey the general interest.

God forbid that one representative of the parliamentary opposition speaks at press conferences, so that someone thinks that he or she is the new leader of the entire opposition. That's why everyone has to say and repeat the same things for no reason.

This rebellion in a society headed by students is spontaneous, that basic democracy - making decisions at plenums day after day - is extremely sympathetic to the author of these lines, but in the long run it cannot be effective.

In order to turn it into an organized liberation of "hijacked" institutions, one political center, one political manager, is necessary, which would coordinate all dissatisfaction in society and direct all individual rebellions towards a common goal that is the solution to all individual sufferings: the establishment of the rule of law.

The government's response

Students have taken a big step towards that goal: with youthful carelessness and without fear of reprisals, they are breaking fear in society and fueling the spirit of rebellion against injustice.

Of course, Aleksandar Vučić also understands all that. At first confused by the students' persistent disobedience, he will now draw deep into his arsenal of methods for surviving in absolute power: if he cannot intimidate them already, he will try to bribe, divide, divide the students and will patiently wait for this revolt without real leadership to fail as until now.

If all this does not yield results, serious repression by the party-state apparatus will follow with the use of real beating units, not these amateur ones, made up of party functionaries, which caused minor incidents at protests.

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