Among all the dubious or predatory privatizations that took place during the era of the DPS government, the most dangerous is the privatization of the Montenegrin national interest. Monopolizing the discourse on Montenegro was certainly a short-sighted and selfish strategy, but possible for at least two reasons: one is the "cleansing" of the past of the most important actors - because they were the creators of the XNUMXs here, Amfiloch's lovers and Milosevic's confidants. The second reason is the need for a (significant) part of the former independent emancipatory scene to shamelessly make itself available, it seemed, to the almighty, but, above all, bad government. And to their Master. That's why we got the court media. And intellectual service that even the courts of real feudalism do not remember.
The DPS was so engrossed in monopolizing the issue and concept of the state, that they were no longer able to see the contours of their own falsification. The twilight phase of the party mastodon made us get a somewhat caricatured reality. When people refused to participate in that kind of illusion, defeat ensued. And sobering up?
This type of confusion (although it is not only confusion) became visible in the first post-Depees days in Montenegro. Today we see the problem of the non-existence/unfoundedness of institutions. Should we tremble every time at the elections who will come with their bugs and create their own version of Montenegro and Montenegrins? How long? What then is the meaning of national institutions?
The whining of state intellectuals echoes from all sides, apocalyptic scenarios are drawn that have a common end - the disappearance of Montenegro. Is that right? The more national passwords, the bigger the fraud on Wednesday. Some are used to the Ministry of Culture serving them as an ATM... hence the acute national suffering and martyrdom in the announcement.
What would a country be like whose fate depends on a single party election, on a party's victory or defeat? If you really love her, you can't make her like that.
You have a simple recipe for checking the quality of political change. Do a little personal research - how much banality (language, spirit, action) is removed from the public scene by that change. If the amount is large, the change is undoubtedly good.
It is unbelievable how much pressure is put on people in order not to "change" the election result. The region rose up: clichés were activated, open letters were written, dubious analogies were presented...
Many still doubt that the DPS will hand over power in a gentlemanly and decent manner. Maybe a bookmaker will give odds for that too.
Why all that? Things are clear. Responsible people should accept what is, recognize their guilt, and not make children's operettas and address the blame on everyone but themselves.
Or something much more dangerous: why don't the police arrest the villains who attack people and property, run amok through Pljevlja, Bijelo Polje... Where are the promises that everyone is safe and protected. That the police didn't get angry with the citizens, so they don't call?
Whatever the outcome - because one should by no means underestimate the foolishness of opposition veterans, the possibilities of the DPS machinery and who knows what else - but I am sure that Montenegrin national interests would be validly and unequivocally protected in such an arrangement (exclusively an expert government). It's just that, hopefully, no one will make a "small economy" out of it. That will be the essential difference. That space must never again be a space for collecting merits, but a space for careful reflection. And a space that is sovereignly ruled by institutions and not by party nomenclature or masters.
People are always afraid of new situations, they are afraid of the unknown. This is a new experience for all of us. You should step into the new without prejudice. After all, the "removability of government" has been won, and it is certain that no one will rule Montenegro uncontrollably ever again, not even for decades.
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