President’s mistake

Putin's victory strategists are not kept in the mind not the actions of politicians admitted to the election, but a strike of voters appointed by Navalny

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Here, for example, the news of the state television channel Russia Today, and not just news, but one of the first messages of the state television channel about the attack of two scumbags on children in school No. 127 of the city of Perm: "A teenager who arranged a massacre at the Perm school supported Navalny." But - the material of the Constantinople channel, private and not particularly popular, but even more patriotic than the Russian Today: "At first they cut schoolchildren, then go to rallies."

Communication is established by a respected expert, the head of the Patriarchal Center for Clinical Psychology and part -time member of the Public Council of the FSIN Mikhail Khasminsky. The patriotic television channel, the expert is also a patriotic, so the attack on the Russian oppositionist cannot be limited, and the union of tongue -ties with geopolitical insights becomes inevitable: “The widespread fragmentation. Then an aggression accumulates in a person. And he realizes her where he considers it necessary. This is the spiritual and moral decay of a person. Today it is stabbing at school. Yesterday this is another aggressive behavior. The same behavior, when they go to rallies, throw bottles in Ukraine. This is aggression, which does not go to creation, but in destruction. ”

And - I risk playing a cynic - this is, in general, normal. Well, of course, if we consider the fact of direct and outright support by state television channels of one of the candidates in the presidential election, but in the last century we are used to the fact that this is just the norm. This is the usual logic of counter -propaganda in the framework of a conventional election campaign. All the good things that happen to the country before the elections are the result of the actions of our candidate, and all the bad are the consequences of the machinations of his competitors. Thank you, Vladimir Vladimirovich, for the onset of a new day, and you are ashamed of you, Alexei Anatolyevich, to arrange terrible frosts in Yakutia.

Thank you, Vladimir Vladimirovich, for the onset of a new day, and you are ashamed of you, Alexey Anatolyevich, to arrange terrible frosts in Yakutia

But one small nuance breaks down the usual logic of the election campaign: Navalny does not participate in the presidential election. It is not allowed, which means that Putin is not formally competitor, and the standard rules of the race seem to be required to forget about his existence, focusing on those with whom you have to fight for the voices - on criticizing the positions, statements and actions of Ksenia Sobchak or Maxim Suraykin (it does not matter who it is, it is important that he is assigned and collects signatures in his support).

But for some reason I can’t forget. In the staged elections, only the percentage of turnout is important (in connection with which sociologists from the Levada Center were convincingly asked not to publish any more data from election polls: they, unlike loyal Thomas and Vciom, look very sad). Therefore, you have to beat not those whose names will be in the ballot balloon, but the one who works to lower the appearance. It is no coincidence that the Ministry of Justice is now going to liquidate the Fifth Season Foundation, which ensures the work of Navalny's headquarters. January 22 - the court, there is no reason to doubt that the decision has already been made, which means that the opposition headquarters await serious difficulties. However, you can’t get used to the staff of the headquarters, you can’t say that their life was especially easy.

The dispute about the future of the country will not be held at all on official debates, in which Putin traditionally refused, dumping everything on proxies, and not with pocket competitors. And this dispute on March 18 will not end

The undoubted triumph of the upcoming elections even looks a little sorry: he is forced to fight the enemy squeezed out on the side of the policy, deprived of the right to legal political struggle, with the enemy, who, formally, is not even an enemy. But at the same time, the name of his enemy is still afraid to pronounce aloud (here the work is not for psychologists even, but for anthropologists-let them guess what such archaic beliefs are guided by the President of the Russian Federation), fair propaganda resources are spent on leaning the enemy, courts and entire ministries work against him. The positive line of Putin’s campaign is also built as if not Zhirinovsky, Suraykin and Yavlinsky, namely Navalny, compete with him. Another meeting with youth is coming, now in Kazan, students are already being driven to her with threats and promises, they are driven only in order to once again contrast the right youth in the warm hall of the wrong youth at street rallies. In the mind, that is, the strategists of the Putin victory are not possible for the systems of systemic politicians admitted before the elections, but a street strike of voters, appointed by Navalny on January 28.

In general, they don’t even try to hide that the price of a penny, the dispute about the future of the country will not be held at all on official debate, in which Putin traditionally refused, dumping everything on proxies, and not with pocket competitors. And that this dispute will not end on March 18.

Of course, all these absurdities could be easily avoided, simply observing the requirements of their own constitution. To allow Navalny to the elections, with the full basis to smash from all information tools and win. Navalny, not Suraikin with Grudinin, who are not eager for victory for victory. After all, everyone seems to understand that Putin is actually more popular than Navalny, that Putin would have coped with Navalny in the first round. And he could calmly later refer to the unfortunate interest that would prove the weakness of the opposition in the country. For interest received by Navalny, not Ksenia Sobchak.

But only after Navalny’s Navalny’s Navalny, such reasoning cost nothing. They cannot be checked now. But another hypothetical structure acquires meaning-since he has not allowed, it means that he himself is not particularly sure of the unconditional victory. So, he fears. So there is something to be afraid.

Serious fee for some lack of courage, by the way. Precisely because the dispute about the future of the country is not for sure in the elections of March 18.

* The author’s opinion may not coincide with the opinion of the editorial office