"Don't believe in statistics, in numbers, in public statements: reality is what cannot be seen with the naked eye." - Danilo Kish -
Serbia got a "new" president. Vođa was inaugurated in Vođa. Therefore, any political novelty or change in Serbia has long been an oxymoron. Serbia, for now, has not been declared a kingdom, but something must be left for the winter. There will probably be new elections and other occasions soon. What one of my colleagues would say: 'In Serbia, I go to the polls more often than I buy high heels.' And I say again: what you voted for - you voted. There are no elections in Serbia. Quite simply, without free media there is no choice. And that's the least the opposition had to know. And that, in accordance with that, his participation does not contribute to the election farce.
We learned from the Leader, the day before this coronation as president, that (among other things) he personally drew highways and corridors. I confess, my blood was running in my veins - because good old Stalin started just like that. And you know what kind of mistakes were made only when he forgot to move his finger from the map, on which the roads were drawn.
I have no intention of writing about yesterday's inauguration, except to refer to that detail: Miroslav's Gospel, under the Constitution. The leader swore an oath over a copy of the oldest monument of Serbian literacy!? In Serbia, a country with one and a half million illiterate people and as many fake diplomas, the Leader chose this very symbol - written in constitutional Cyrillic. Touching. Now, why did he unjustly neglect Dušan's Code, why did he not place that document under the Constitution? I guess he will when he is crowned king. It won't work for the emperor, I guess. Although it is not impossible for him to refresh the idea for which he stood for two decades - the idea of Greater Serbia - now, when Greater Albania and all our neighbors stand in our way. But I'm not going to let my persistent rationalization override my emotionality, this time. Therefore, I will say no more about the Leader.
I will talk about the opposition, I rarely write about it. Just as tender and heartbreaking photos of the "united opposition" from yesterday's protest are circulating on social networks, I am thinking about how difficult it is to cope with that enormous tragedy. I don't need some kind of ethical sniping about how unpleasant it is for some people to be together. That doesn't bother me at all, because there really aren't any differences. The second one bothers me.
The Serbian opposition wanted to unite, but, it seems, not before making sure that Vođa will indeed become the president of the country. The Serbian opposition believed, as it turns out, that Vođa's victory in the elections was first in the national interest - and then any joint opposition action. The opposition in Serbia understood, so it follows, that it should unite only on the day when "evil was crowned". That Serbian opposition, all made up of missed opportunities, continues its traveling circus in which, like a group of sad clowns, it now convinces us of their correct value system. This is the same opposition that said it was "early", when tens of thousands of citizens were on the streets due to the phantom demolition of Savamala. And of course, this is the same opposition that two or three months ago had the opportunity to unite and thus show why it is important to stand in the way of this evil. Before the coronation, for five long years.
If the political theory according to which there are only two forms of state is correct: the one in which it is possible to overthrow the regime in elections and the other, in which it is not possible - then the question arises, what does today's scattered opposition in Serbia think about it? Should the citizens of Serbia, long adapted to all the lies and frauds, to all the misery and ruin, completely poisoned by Vođa's media and his absolute power, now pretend that the opposition knows what they want? And that they are excitedly waiting for the elections in Belgrade to round up the 'true values'? It doesn't happen.
(Bojana Maljević is an actress and producer, "Twitter, scumbag, foreign mercenary" in her free time)
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