The opposition in Serbia is not disunited, but crystallized.
On the one hand, there is a relatively new, here and there healthy, somewhat naive, somewhat distracted, mostly untainted, but solid coalition of young forces on the political scene of Srbijatrija, which is in favor of fighting in the upcoming elections.
While on the other hand, there is little symbolism, it remains passive, never clear enough, contradictory, with the burden of the past, i.e. individuals who burned and burned before this progressive Age of Rats came, but still quite a powerful and influential opposition, which believes that these Belgrade elections should not be contested.
Opposite all of them certainly stands one hundred-headed dragon, behind which marches an army of undead evil spirits, followed by a horde of crazed and occult followers of the Serbian Progressive Party.
It is a bit naive to think that these elections had a chance, even if all those under the heavenly cap united against Force & Injustice, to change anything. The whole debate about whether one should go to the polls or not is reminiscent of the story of the dark vilayet, whatever you do – it’s wrong.
And now, those who don’t want to go to the elections are talking in metaphors – I hope they are not serious, it would be a shame – how you shouldn’t go for coffee with the occupiers, how you should go to the forest, and then they Hitlerize this government as something that has never been seen in this world and similar scumbags.
First of all, it is a cute metaphor that this country is occupied by various Vučićs, Jovans, Gašićs and Vulins, but if we step back a little from that daily political train of thought, we will see that SNSerbia is just one piece of the puzzle in the global puzzle of the newly baked neoliberalism.
What is this about, those who think I’m rambling will cry out.
Well, it is precisely about the fact that there is a pop over the pop, and it seems that his despotism has absolute control over this country, but we see exactly how it is when our majesty goes over the branch – as the young would say – and humbly takes off his hat to to the one who tailors the same for him.
It can also be said that his hybrid rule is not unique at all, but rather widespread throughout Europe – not to mention other continents – and that many international envoys do not see a particular problem in all of this.
As long as there is cheap labor here, fertile ground for the construction of anything and everything, but also a platform for the transportation of multi-water substances, weapons and slaves, then everything is great.
We’re getting to the core, slowly.
So, it is an old platitude that Vučić and his camarilla were appointed here with a task; mostly it is meant to “solve” the Kosovo issue, but in their eyes this is the master of stabilocracy – for now! – the only person who can maintain so-called peace and stability, i.e. that there are no interstate wars, as there were in the nineties.
And now we return to the beginning of this story, so it is not very clear which world should see that something is wrong here if the elections are not held, as the boycott-opposition demands, since SNSerbia enjoys support and all benefits in his work & work, even though he falls lower and lower on various lists of Srbijatrija.
To be clear, the international factor is on the progressive side. There is a slight impression that this is being confused with Milošević’s time, when it was possible to count on help from abroad.
And when we are already talking about that hypocritical world or the West, they see exactly how we fight defending ourselves against that magical Resolution on Srebrenica or how we embarrass ourselves before the United Nations when we talk about Kosovo & Metohija.
Another thing is that it is not in their interest to react more deeply to the progressive tricksters, but we are shamed enough without a choice.
And that is far more important, since the elections are one point in this dark chapter, while the determination towards Kosovo and Srebrenica is a matter of value. But, of course, no one from the opposition is interested in mentioning that.
Without further ado, people here have a lot of fun with the unreasonable but understandable optimism that things will just change here.
No one here will go to any forest if the election is stolen, even in front of the cameras. Passivity and defeatism have long been established here, therefore the forest is falling apart.
Will the elections here ever be free? They were never completely free, there was always a certain influence, only now they are completely distorted and reduced to a farce. Will we receive help from abroad?
No, from the very beginning that community is on their side, it has been shown and proven many times until now.
Unfortunately, things aren’t going to change as usual here. People just like to party here, like for Eurovision, but the Serbian Progressive Party will not fall from power for a few more years.
And when it falls – it will be overnight. No notice, no help.
In a moment it will collapse and all that will be left of it is a ruin. A ruin that will remind of the evil era in Serbian modern history of the 21st century.
The author is a freelance journalist
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