The right to conspiracy

Preferential riots do not want to pacify. On Wednesday, it became known that pensioners stormed the building of the administration of the Kholm district on Sakhalin. In St. Petersburg - they blocked the Mariinsky Palace, thus tearing a meeting of the Legislative Assembly. It is curious that the rally participants, among other things, raised orange flags with the inscriptions of "Yushchenko, so!" Who would have thought that the Ukrainian “democratic infection” would be taken so far into Russian territory and amaze pensioners and communists.

Dissatisfaction does not decline, despite the conspiracy of officials. In this case, I mean an attempt to speak beneficiaries with explanations about the worthless fulfillment of the “good law” and promises of speedy correction of shortcomings. It seems that the reassurance of monetized citizens will not come soon, unless the power does not proceed from reassurance. But in this case, the result is difficult to predict: discontent, as we see, is expressed in an increasingly aggressive form.

There is no doubt that in this situation, power will be more consistent on the theory of political conspiracy. The words that pensioners are taken to the streets of someone's enemy hand sound for more than one week. The first on this subject was the speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov, the second person in the state. The deputies are “United Russia” of varying degrees of nobility, as well as the incorrect “Rodger” Dmitry Rogozin vying rushed to look for enemies. In the same spirit, the Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin suddenly spoke unexpectedly - the party publicist Mikhail Leontyev.

The exposures of the “conspirators” and “provocateurs” are trying to convince the public - and most importantly, themselves - that people cannot take without instigators and foreign sponsors and easily go out into the streets to scold power and even personally Vladimir Putin himself. This is all: pickets, and demonstrations, and rallies - organized, in their opinion, the political enemies of President Putin, and hence the enemies of Russia.

The hottest exposures claim that a wave of public discontent rose as a result of the devilish conspiracy of the oligarchs, who dragged the law on monetization through the Duma for the only purpose - to throw Putin. Opponents of the theory of conspiracy are trying to prove that people are really unhappy with the current situation and there are no conspirators in nature.

There is a conspiracy or not - does not matter. The value in this case can only be that in a normal democratic society, individual citizens and political organizations should have a “plot of conspiracy”. What to name the actions of a political opposition that uses mistakes and stupidity of the current government and provokes the discontent of voters in all legal ways? In fact, this is the opposition conspiracy in order to get power into their own in the nearest elections. The opposition always uses the mistakes and stupidity of the authorities to excite public discontent and at least reduce the popularity of existing politicians and officials and confidence in them. And how else to change the ratio of votes in the elections? Quite often, the requirements of the "conspirators" meet the interests of a significant part of the population. Which? Again, elections or referendum should show. This is how any democratic machine works.

And if the current government does not recognize for dissatisfied citizens, the opposition and political opponents of the right to such a conspiracy, then this means that the authorities do not recognize the right to political activity for anyone other than itself. And the authorities should either learn to act in the conditions of the opposition’s permanent conspiracy, or to screw the nuts to the camps.

And one more consideration. Why are so many people - politicians, officials, free artists - so willingly use the words “conspiracy” or “provocation”? Because today this is the fastest way to join the party in power and not go unnoticed. He said about the conspirators - and, as it were, sent a loyal telegram to the Kremlin. For lack of the opportunity to personally kiss the president or someone important from his administration, the exposure of enemies of the regime sends a signal with his public statement: I am mine, you can count on me, and better reward it somehow.