The slogan "Victory, not division" has been called into question. Because, obviously, after victory, there must also be division. But not among citizens. It looks more like a division of the spoils. The new version is: Victory, then division. By quotas.
The famous division of positions by depth first of all shows the depth of the problems in Montenegrin society.
We had (and still have) a captive society and a captive state. The partitocratic impulse decisively shaped all processes in this society, not from yesterday. DPS continued the matrix of the one-party "mother" of a good part of the current parties in Montenegro. I mean the League of Communists, of course.
Then we get a new government that announces the noble desire to liberate this society from party restraints and qualified personnel, which is called the dismantling of a bad system. The August elections were won on that story, just to remind ourselves.
That it was a bad system is not disputed - the practice itself showed it, as well as the evaluations of the European allies. In the end, even the most personal experience of any citizen is enough, because it clearly speaks in that direction... So, what does the new elite's response to that challenge look like?
So that now we will be the caliph instead of the caliph, that is, the DPS instead of the DPS.
It is noticeable that a part of the actors of the current government likes to publicly shape and broadcast an essentially problematic attitude: whoever criticizes us, does it for DPS. Is it (always) like that?
First, such a setting is not necessarily correct. Certainly there are those for whom criticism is really fan work. But it is very easy to recognize, that hysterical tone and arrogant ignoring of nuances and details. When the tone of the criticism is different, not to say constructive, it is important to hear what is said, and not immediately feel the need for political disqualification. Doesn't that look like a practice that is all too familiar to citizens, from all previous decades.
Second, such an attitude is deeply manipulative. By insisting on such a public mantra, politicians actually exempt themselves from criticism, and that is not good. Neither for them, nor for this society.
The problem of captive societies: when you are always captive, you know nothing about freedom. If dismantling is another name for digging in depth, then the Montenegrin citizen did not get along well with the current government.
It doesn't matter at all who got what in the current division, and it shouldn't be dealt with - the mode is important, the crystal clarity of the partitocratic orgy in the post-Depees style is important...
Are we telling any other stories? It seems that freedom will definitely not be able to sing, as the slaves sang about her...
Wasn't the confrontation with the party monopolies emphasized as the key moment of the overall dismantling of the partitocratic and kleptocratic system? With a system that favors the likes over the experts?
Is this really what meritocracy in Montenegrin looks like?
The story of the division is attractive in the media, and everyone welcomed it as undoubtedly credible - this speaks of the citizens' experience of the new (every, actually) government. In principle, the depths bring challenges, but some challenges are too great... History works on the principle of challenges and responses to challenges. The nature of the response to the challenge paints the most accurate portrait of an active elite: it is probably the same with the picture of the current "division". Admittedly, this division is - quote.
The world of politics carries its own rules and logic... In the natural world, things are clear: the deeper you go, the closer you are to the bottom.
The government does what it wants, but the citizens showed a higher level of awareness and solidarity. Each of the previous days, entering the newsroom of Vijesti was proof of this: the pile of gifts and donations for children from the affected areas of Petrinja, Sisak and Glina grew at a speed that arouses hope. This urge of the citizen will help the victims in Croatia today, but in the long run it is also a gift for the Montenegrin society: a real lesson of solidarity and empathy.
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