Politics as a variety show

In the post-election months, the domestic political arena increasingly resembles a ring in which the youths of citizens' electoral will are poked in order to prove who has grown bigger and more voluminous horns in the meantime. The breakdown in the distribution of chairs and functions seems like a fair of kitsch and vanity, in which aggressiveness, hate speech, pranks, subterfuge and various other tricks from the repertoire of Bosnia and Herzegovina's political cuisine prevail.

They have more work to do

All that were pre-election promises, mouths full of praise for the changes that are supposedly always coming, remained empty words spoken in the void, which today mostly no one even remembers. The pre-election campaigns for local political representatives serve only as rituals to throw dust in the eyes of the public, so that - as soon as they grab their mandates and parliamentary seats - they would continue where they left off in their previous ruling tirades.

They consist, first of all, in devaluing both the citizens' will and the institutions of the system themselves, because they serve mainly the private interests of the parties and their allies. Citizens, as always, remain completely sidelined from the focus of political representatives, they simply do not have time to deal with those who gave them mandates to represent them and advocate for their rights and safety. They have, so to speak, a priority of work, administrative and supervisory boards, and the management of various other profitable state bodies, with which they provide themselves with new space for new subjugation of this almost devastated country.

Since the citizens have not found mechanisms to control the elected representatives of the government even three decades after the first multi-party elections, those who are elected have a free hand to act exclusively in accordance with their own interests and the interests of the political organization they represent. Thus, year after year, we have a system of overflowing from empty to empty, stagnation and degradation of the state, its institutions and citizens, which is why every government exists. In such a distribution of forces, we remain long-term prisoners of a freakishly set up system of government that is, above all, an end in itself. In other words, we have not yet come close to having a real democratic will, the one that lies in the hands of the citizens, that is, the voters who give their vote as a trust to those who will really represent their rights in the institutions of the system. Instead, as soon as the elected representatives realize that they have been given the mandate of the citizens, whom they have misled by throwing dust in their eyes, they become anti-civic elements whose only concern is strengthening their own position in the elite circle of the post-Dayton state, marred by scandals and plagued by corruption brokers.

Empty charades and false fanfare

For many years, everything around us has resembled a distasteful circus used to fool the common people, and instead of serious political debates that would yield at least some seeds of the idea of ​​a new society, adapted to the requirements of the time we live in, we have empty charades and false fanfare of democratic dialogue. The entire public is directed in the same direction, we all follow daily scandals and little scandals, we declaratively detest and condemn them, and already tomorrow we continue to go after them and emphasize them again and again as socially important and necessary for our survival. Bearing in mind these circumstances, it is quite clear that this society has not yet reached the starting points of a true democratic system. We live the palanquin logic of a quasi-democratic bubble, which tries to maintain itself as dominant and irreplaceable at all costs. While the system manages to generate pop scandalization year after year as its essential expression, which inflames the ignorant voting population, we will have a half-society, half-state and half-awareness of what actually means an organized state system that exists because of the people who make up one community, it is directed towards them and he is responsible to them.

(oslobodjene.ba)