Carnival, masks, false identities, real insults...
The Montenegrin political scene is starting to look like some kind of crazy carnival where everyone slowly forgets who they are and tries to be someone else. This, in the Middle Ages, was the attraction of the carnival: border games with the self, also a kind of psychological ventilation. But I'm afraid that this carnival of ours is taking place when it's not the right time or place.
The latest waves of insults thrown by the leaders of the Democratic Front towards the president (who spoke very rationally about the reputational risk of the future government), as well as the hateful "embassies", the independent scene and the media, must at least create a sad taste among the opposition voters, but it also leaves one , no less dangerous impression - that yesterday's opposition is a group of ignorant people, noisemakers and sickly ambitious intriguers. If they continue like this, DPS will look like a pile of seriousness. It would not be good if such an impression were to last. And it is not even fair that a few politicians who are simply not up to the historical moment (or have some other obligations to someone) create an impression about the entire heterogeneous movement which, nevertheless, managed to replace the regime's hydra.
But the electoral defeat is only the beginning of the work. That is easily forgotten.
What is particularly irritating is the narrative model resorted to. In the interpretation of Mandić and his team, Krivokapić is a hidden DPS voter, someone who made a deal with Đukanović, but also a henchman of the CIA and infamous Western embassies...
This "CIA" as a strong touch for political disqualification has remained with Mandić since the nineties, it is nostalgia for the time of "glorious" warfare...
Back then, of course, it had to go with the Vatican, it was not separated, like "coffee and pickles". In slightly more imaginative performances, the Comintern was involved in this as well, but that is missing now, because in the meantime every honest Chetnik has become a big fan of Stalin and the USSR. Today, instead of the Comintern, the Deep State takes over. I know it seems crazy, but is that the only thing around us that seems crazy to you?
Someone could, listening to all these great insults, think - guys, who gave you such an outburst? How did you put such a man (DPS, CIA, Đukanović and who knows what else) at the top of your opposition list. And lo and behold, so-and-so got you the best result you've ever achieved. Not only has he succeeded in deceiving you but also so many voters. And all that, as far as I understand, he did for the DPS, the CIA and the current president.
"Come on, splash yourself", is the old wording from Podgorica for those who, before dawn, after a stormy night, start telling unusually unrelated or tiresome stories...
It is simply unbelievable how someone can transform in just a few weeks from the image of a caring oppositionist, declaratively ready to submit everything to the common good, into an infantile gossiper and a shameless armchair hunter. That carnival is an old game here, but perhaps never as naked and clear as we see it today.
We used to have a "conflict on the literary left", and today Montenegro is a hostage to the conflict on the (Serbian) right.
Who knows what all this will lead to, when the negotiation carnival is over. Montenegro is going through such political and social processes for the first time. That's why you should be careful, but not afraid. Richer for such an experience, no matter how things unfold, Montenegro will be better. And more famous.
In this carnival of ours, it is no longer easy to tell who is who? Whose mask is completely fused to the face, and who can still take off the mask. And then what will we see? New mask or old face?
Even to get rid of spiders and court fools from the scene...
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