Save money, don't eat," said the Trade Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in response to a journalist's question about how to survive daily price increases.
This statement, which the minister later, trying to smooth the situation, called a joke, was compared by the public to Marie Antoinette's cynicism and her famous instruction for the humiliated and poor: "Eat cake, if you have no bread." However, the Prime Minister of the Federation of BiH immediately called the statement unforgivable and demanded that the "joker" minister resign. All this is happening in a country that is our neighbor, that is far behind us in terms of EU and NATO integration, that is just emerging from the debris of the war, and its citizens are seeing severe, material and spiritual, wounds received in the XNUMXs. So, all the parameters, when it comes to the speed of development of democracy, are on our side of the border. But theory is one thing, and practice is quite another, it has proven again. Thus, in our country, it is still in the realm of impossible for the prime minister (and we have had only four of them in more than two decades - three extras and Primus) to recommend the minister to resign, and that because of the statement.
Verbal tort is an unknown category in the government's political yard. And there were, it's not that there weren't, statements and statements, just this summer, not counting all the previous ones, which we should think about very seriously and for which the political guillotine would have to shine. However, nothing happened. First, we heard from the former prime minister a public instruction on how to pay off the debt and further indebt the voters of the ruling party. He recommended to fellow soldiers not to return anyone who comes to them and asks for a job because "they are our voters". Then the Minister of Justice confirmed that the ruling party takes care of the social status of its voters. The representative of the ruling party broke everything down with a theoretical explanation, without hesitation, admitting that the youth of the ruling party are employed because that's how "the party fulfills its pre-election promises". A very clear message before the October elections. Parents and children are drawn again - that they pay expensive school fees in vain, buy textbooks in vain, copy scripts, push for a place in student dormitories or pay for sublet student rooms - if they don't have a membership card of the ruling party in their wallet. A ticket for everyone. And for work, and for advancement, and for establishing private companies, and getting tenders... Multipractice card. All inclusive arrangement. Like the endlessly boring and empty TV Shop commercials. It won't go astray. A tried and true thing.
And because of all this - no one ever answered. Neither in court, nor before the court of the public. It goes without saying, I guess, that submission and obedience is only a prerequisite for entering the world of those who are not at the labor office.
That is why those, who have been harboring bitterness for years because of the fraud they agreed to again and again, believing that "just this time it will be different", are victims of the ruling party. Because the euphoria about the fact that, finally, they have their own drawer in the state administration or behind the municipal counter will not even subside yet - and the wheels on the chairs that have just been pushed in will start to slip. And then what? On hold. Again. To four more years of knocking on closed doors. Waiting for elections, even extraordinary ones. Waiting for the alms of the mighty. The game of the strong and the weak lasts in cycles. Four years each. More than two decades. So what does anyone grab in the general pre-election grab for jobs, positions, small privileges and slightly bigger jobs. It depends on who it is.
And how long is four years, actually - for how long will citizens give mandates to someone this October? How much can one's life improve or decline in four years? Just think about what all fits in four years. What will a baby born this October know and be able to do in four years? From a newborn who is just listening to the first sounds and does not yet clearly distinguish characters - he will become a child who knows how to walk, run, speak, hum his favorite songs, recognize and love people around him. He will go to kindergarten and have friends. He will become a social being. What kind of society they will grow up in during the next four years - you decide! How much knowledge and experience will those who are now entering primary, secondary school or university acquire by 2016, when will those to whom you will hand the country be in power? What will their schools be like and what values will they bring from them - again, you decide exactly - you! It is necessary to carefully consider who to trust to design and create a path for us in the next four years. Because - four years is a lot. Maybe not on a historical level, but in every person's life - it is. An extraordinary amount. And especially in the lives of our children. And we should all be aware of that when we take the ballot paper in our hands and start rounding it up. We need to wrap up four years that will bring changes, reforms, a different Montenegro, in which a diploma and a party membership card will not even be comparable categories.
The current government should become a thing of the past. We have to, finally, get out of the time machine we've been stuck in, and because of which we watch the 21st century through fogged windows as it drifts away while we float through the voids of time. Unfortunately, our social, economic and political development does not belong to the modern age. We are locked in a time machine whose chief officer and crew members throw us in different directions. We are in the middle of the Spanish Inquisition, then they take us to feel the flames of Bartholomew's Night, then we travel to the time of the Crusades to see the robbery and the garrezh, then we turn east to the Russian gulags and a chill passes through us as if from Shalamov's Tales from Kolyma... The vortex of time takes us deeper and deeper, while our time machine sinks, and most of them sit and wait with folded hands. Rebel. But how? Stefan Hassel, a man who survived two concentration camps, was in the French Resistance Movement, participated in the creation of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, at the age of 93 he wrote "Indignez-vous", translated as "Revolt!", and gave a very simple answer. He said: "I have always fought exasperation with aspiration".
And indeed. That goes for us too. We do not want to despair. We hope, think and act positively. It will come back to us. Because, the time has definitely come for Positive Montenegro!
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