To avoid failure, Trump denies reality, those who know him say. "In his mind, he didn't lose," says Jack O'Donnell, his former employee. “He will never admit defeat. They will always say, 'I was robbed'!”
The same diagnosis can be made for our leader Đukanović. Since the party congress, his obsession with the church and the position of the patriarch has not left him, and after the election he keeps repeating - they stole me. True, in other words, but he is essentially sending the same message - how he lost the elections due to Belgrade's interference and due to the silence of the international community.
"Failure is not an option," was written, reports the BBC, on the desk of a member of Trump's staff inside the White House. That motto best sums up Trump's philosophy and his approach to the presidency.
We have the same problem with Đukanović. His appearance in the video message for the New Year, with collapsed health, cracked voice, with difficulty breathing, showed that defeat is not an option for him and that he will not give up the party until it is extinguished, which would not have caused our tears if it were not for the realization that he is in a private the state he built for the past 30 years, and the fate of the country somewhat intertwined with the fate of him and the party. I say, somewhat. Certainly not to the extent that Đukanović and the propaganda want to present it. That's why when the president, like recently, says "Don't defend Montenegro from me", the answer should be - We have to!
"The sixth of January will be remembered as one of the darkest days in American history," said Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, before concluding: "This is the last warning to our nation about the consequences of the policies of a demagogic president, the people who enable him, captive media parroting his lies and sympathizers following him as he tries to push America to the brink of ruin".
The same applies to Đukanović's policy. His demagoguery about an endangered state and the patriotic mantra about eternal Montenegro, which is frantically waved by propaganda and mercenaries, are pushing society towards a similar precipice over which great America found itself in the final phase of Trump's mandate.
"The most worrying political fact is that a significant part of the Republican Party lives in a world of imagination, a place where facts and truth do not rule, where humiliating the opposition and critics is an end in itself, and where running away from reality is more an expression of tribal loyalty than mental illness," he wrote before the other day, Peter Wenner, columnist for The Atlantic and The New York Times. With a firm conclusion: "It leads the party and America itself to places we have never been before, including the spectacle of a defeated president and his supporters who are persistently trying to steal the election."
The same applies to DPS and Montenegro. Đukanović worked for years to clone a party in which there is no room for a minimal difference of opinion or a dissonant tone. The thunderous announcement of the rejuvenation of the DPS showed little else Đukanović's cynicism and cruelty because he threw his young clones onto the political stage who are racing to imitate the Leader, not only in gestures, but also in the way they behave on the political stage. All of them, both young and old, follow Don, as did the Republicans until recently - some out of fear, others for career, some with enthusiasm, others with a pursed upper lip. That is why there is no uncertainty ahead of the DPS Congress - everything will remain the same, which means that the party's rating and influence will continue to collapse. Which is why SPC and Vučić rub their hands with satisfaction.
The drama unfolded in waves, the BBC reported on the rioting of the Trump mob that demolished the Congress building and almost staged a coup. Television cameras showed images of "rebels" dancing and waving flags on the steps of the Capitol. Photos and videos of rioters inside the building, posing in the offices of elected legislators or carrying pieces of furniture and interior, appeared on social networks. Medeni Nebojša also found himself in the photomontages - finally in the Capitol building, uninvited and in the company of the Kuanon shamans, an elite group of Trump followers of the conspiracy theory, according to which a group of pedophiles who worship the devil entered the highest ranks of the American authorities. Deep Honey Country, then!
The same could have happened here on December 28. But Đukanović and his DPS only performed a demonstration exercise in front of the House of Representatives. Previously, such celebrations of "democracy" were held by the DF, whose shamans believed that the Serbs were a heavenly nation doomed to defeat due to a conspiracy by the CIA and the Vatican. Now Đukanović's most ardent fans are propagating something similar, let's say that the devil has entered the American ambassador who complains in the bazaar that Milo is going to take out tanks against Christians.
And here we saw the patriotic crowd, wrapped in national flags and their representatives in the Assembly who, like the Republicans and Trump, tell them that they love them, and then that they know how they feel because their country is in danger. All that was missing was Brano and his men with the weapons they never carry. What should we believe because there was no need for that since the police functioned as the private guard of the owners of the private state.
"We just had a violent mob attack the Capitol in an attempt to prevent us from doing our constitutional duty," tweeted Congresswoman Lynn Cheney, one of the few in the Republican Party who has not given in to Trump's demagoguery and conspiracy theories. "There is no doubt that the president organized the mob, that the president encouraged the mob, the president addressed the mob," she concluded.
The same is the case with Đukanović, when it sends messages about the illegal actions of the new Government and the Assembly and the undermining of systems and state institutions, and on the other hand it keeps silent, therefore supports the obstruction of rights and laws by the imprisoned SEC, which now needs to be confirmed by the imprisoned Constitutional Court. Everything is reminiscent of Trump, who is raising an uprising because of the alleged theft of the election, while at the same time he is persuading the Secretary of State of Georgia on the phone to somehow get the 11 votes he needs to defeat his opponent. Throughout history, the enemies of democracy have often secured the biggest coups with the most tragic consequences by appealing to the will of the people or the decisions of captured state institutions.
All this, of course, is accompanied by propaganda, whose role is the most significant, far ahead of that played by people's representatives or holders of judicial functions. CNN editor Oliver Darcy describes Trump's "pink" network as "a handful of cable channels (Fox, OAN, Newsmax), websites (Gateway Pundit, Daily Wire, Breitbart) and radio hosts (Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin), who they prop up their conspiracy theories and share them with millions. So Mark Levin, the famous Fox host, said on Sunday evening: "Any Republican who does not stand up on Wednesday, January 6, will destroy the Constitution along with the Democrats."
It is the same in Montenegro with Đukanović's propaganda. In the days and weeks before the parliamentary session where the amendments to the Law on Freedom of Religion were to be voted on, CDM, RTCG, Pobjeda, Aktuelno and other brothers brutally target, one by one, the champion or MP of Ura, in the same way and with the same words as the quoted Levin. That if they pass the Law, they will trample on the Constitution, humiliate Montenegrins, betray the state. "When you weaken the usual ways of channeling violence, it then erupts in an unlimited form and everywhere. When words lose their power, then power belongs to violence”. This is how a French sociologist explains the terrible crime in the town of Bayonne, in which passengers of a city bus brutally killed the driver because he insisted on wearing masks!
Đukanović is now calling on the prime minister and government leaders to be correct, giving them lessons in home education. And what did he do, in what style and language, for the past three decades to make any dialogue impossible, destroy independent media and humiliate critics and the opposition! Even if we forget about his early works from the 90s, he was said to be young and seduced by the Great Serbian ideology, what he demonstrated after the referendum was material from which Trump and Orban and Erdogan and Vučić could learn. Instead of integrating society and creating a decent state, he spent a decade and a half persecuting and branding the "losers" of the referendum and the incorruptible from among the "winners"... Instead of, like Lincoln after the American Civil War, "purifying his heart and a mind of anger and hatred towards compatriots from the South", Đukanović built his power, which darkened his reason and narrowed, and now has already erased, a sense of empathy towards the weaker or different. We physically see the man as nothing but fire comes out of his mouth. A dangerous path that pushes Montenegro towards the abyss of possible conflicts and stumbling. Much more dramatic than the ones we saw on January 6th in and around the Capitol.
That's why, when the president tells us - don't defend Montenegro from me, the answer should always be - WE MUST!
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