Even though I haven't written this column in three weeks, I feel like I haven't had a day off. Three weeks ago, the word was "shallow-minded" - thanks to the rapid-fire polemic of Abazović and Đukanović, who called the Montenegrins, with the arrogance of King Ibi, "shallow-minded". And he made a career out of that shallowness, so to speak. And he even tried to cultivate it himself, with the attention of the best gardener.
It seems that "shallow-mindedness" is nowhere as deep as in today's Montenegro.
Everything that has happened in the past few days confirms in the best sense Đukanović's diagnosis given to his people. Although in this particular case, perhaps it should be limited to politicians. They are true representatives of their people, after all. It's always like that. Don't get mad at the mirror...
Current politics in Montenegro appears to be an exhaustive catalog of shallowness, stupidity and depressing naivety.
Even where things are, in principle, simple, a bland, inedible stew of public stupidity is suddenly boiled here. Seasoned with small corruptions and large chunks of nonsense.
We had elections. You got some kind of result, whether you like it or not, as it is. It was negotiated - and, like it or not, the job was done. Where there are people.
This is where the insane rhetoric of "protecting the electoral will" is suddenly launched, while no one says that the electoral will is nothing but the result of the election and the agreement that follows. Like it or not.
Another telling detail: the so-called parties minority peoples, suddenly became - "djukanović's partners from yesterday". In the statements of people who, not so long ago, offered a minority government or the position of prime minister to those "partners of yesterday's Đukanović".
And then Dritan, as if by chance, unprovoked, as the Serbs would say: "Whoever returns the parts of Djukanović's regime is an enemy". With a wink at those he managed to kick out of two or three governments, but expanded their depth. Or deepened the width, as it were. Be careful, all this is being said by a man who formed a government last year, not thirty years ago, with the minority support of Đukanović's party.
The recent anniversary of the changes on August 30 was largely a sign of cheap media rhetoric. Perhaps the most accurate impression is that of the missed chance of this society. It happened with the fall of the old, but the new was not born, and that is a perfectly legitimate description of hell for you.
In the rhetoric of those competing for a "legacy" on August 30, the exaggeration, even after three years, is ridiculous. If you could understand platitudes about liberation three years ago, they seem extremely distasteful today.
Why? First of all, because the balance of changes - deeply disappointing, even if you need to always look at things from the best possible angle. The fall of the DPS did not bring an end to bad political practices. That is painfully clear.
Another bad effect of these (and similar) three years: all this has a demobilizing effect on people. An important impulse that should have happened (and didn't) is precisely a different way of citizen participation in their own lives. Instead of calculations and courtship that was so strongly promoted in the earlier period, a new reality did not appear, an increase in civic awareness, responsibility, courage, creativity...
In other words, and quite precisely - our lives are just as crap after August 30th. So stop with the foolish rhetoric and try to do something.
To begin with, without prejudice and provincial resentment, let's wait and see what kind of government he is preparing for us - the most attacked Montenegrin today. Will it be just another disappointment in a sad streak, or perhaps something different from what we are familiar with.
More depends on that answer than we can imagine.
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