Scare and conquer

A person who is in a calm state most often trusts the world around him. That is, he does not expect a threat to himself in advance and can soberly assess different life situations. When the residents of a cooperative building elect a chairman at a meeting, they know that Ivan Ivanovich is a thief, and Marya Petrovna is not able to establish contact with her neighbors. And Michal Kuzmich is generally a drunkard and rowdy. Therefore, you need to choose someone who can communicate with the control room of the DEZ and the government, who knows how to negotiate, and if necessary, go to court. Elementary?

Moreover, under the current chairman, the concierge takes away the residents' bags, the janitor tries to hit your dog with a shovel, and the hot water in your house, unlike the neighboring ones, is turned off forever. And the endless appearance of repairs. The staircase is destroyed, the paint is spilled, and so on all the time, without any shifts. But every time you meet the current building manager, and he tells you that we have the best house in the world, we are building a great building, although all around us there are nothing but enemies and saboteurs...

At night you go to throw out the garbage, and from the garbage chute there is a sepulchral voice: if you choose another chairman, it will be worse. Where is it worse?

This is approximately the state we are in. Those who rule us today don’t know any other way. Oil is expensive, but we live... Well, those who can live as best they can, relying solely on themselves. It's okay if you're young, rich and healthy. You work according to your talents and skills, relax according to your imagination and solve your problems as they arise. From the garbage chute you have been told so many times that any changes will be against you personally... Good is not sought from good, you tell yourself, and you put up with the fact that any of your problems is solved with the help of bribes, that any trip to the theater could be your last, and that your relationship with the state is based on the principle “we fooled each other and will continue to fool each other.” And it’s firmly in your brain: now everything is stable with us, don’t touch the working system. Noble supporters of the current government will immediately say that both under Yeltsin and Gorbachev, bribes and corruption were in place, people died due to the negligence of others even in peacetime, public sector employees did not have enough money, and the democrats plundered Russia. Based on this formula, it turns out that we have no other power for you. Just no, that's all.

They will tell me that the majority are satisfied with this government. Whether it suits me or not, I don’t know, because everyone lives as best they can. And if your son is driven to suicide in the army, then that is your problem. This won’t happen to you, you say? It definitely won’t happen if you have money to get rid of the child. What if there is no money? What if your house interferes with the plans of a major official? And if, finally, you are late for a vital meeting, and traffic is stopped for the passage of special vehicles? And you won’t get anywhere, you will eat this disregard for you with big spoons. And say: they suit me. It is not they who suit you, it is you who suit them. Because you have no illusions about them and don’t expect help from them. And it doesn’t occur to you that the authorities in the country, in theory, are the same house manager. Hired for your money.

It doesn’t come because when supporters of Russia’s democratic development had all the opportunities of large and small platforms, they did not bother to explain how important freedom, the market and liberal values ​​are. They used the stands to deal with each other or with those above them... After all, only the lazy did not scold Yeltsin. No one was harmed for this abuse. Did you live poorly? Yes, just like today - who knows. Only then was there an alternative - to cope on your own or to elect to parliament someone who would write the right laws... They did not take advantage of the alternative, choosing “with their hearts”. But it was necessary with the head.

Today there is no one to choose. There is no one to elect to parliament, we will vote for whom the party lists approved in the Kremlin will allow. There is no one to elect as governor, since they are no longer elected at all. There is no one to elect as president, since the successors are Putin’s clones, and everyone else will have exactly the resource that is “allocated” to them...

And yet, with the persistence of an idiot, I will sit down to think about my useless thought... Neither Putin nor my successors will suit me. They don’t care about me, they just want to preserve themselves, even at the expense of the citizens of their country, they, and not those whom they imprison, are now getting rich at the expense of Russia’s natural resources, they are already very rich people, and to contribute to their transformation I don’t want to join the richest people in the world. But I’m just one, and there are so many of them, and their administrative resources may be healthy. And the garbage chute is scary: the fascists will come, the communists will come, the marginalized will come, do you know how bad it will be? It's already bad. They themselves, with their administrative resources, brought the situation to complete idiocy. The sun will rise if the bosses don't mind. Twice two will be as much as needed. And even if, in the old fashioned way, a Varangian is invited to the kingdom, he will be faced with the fact that laws only work with the favor of the administrative resource. And the most ideal of all possible rulers will break his forehead against this wall. He will be forced to put pressure, because it has become impossible to act according to the law.

And Putin’s guys are not going to debug normal mechanisms. That's why they are not on the list for me.

Today I really regret that Zyuganov did not win in 1996, because then it was harder to turn the country 180 degrees than now... He really couldn’t provide social benefits, and you can’t go far with slogans alone.

There are no special illusions about the leaders of Yabloko and the Union of Right Forces - parties for which many voted with irritation in the 90s. They still caved in, counting on some kind of living space that would be left to them in exchange for bending. Of course, both of them are better than today's ones. They probably themselves understand: we could have been destroyed, but they only offered us to surrender and have fun. We chose the second, we will still break through.

I'm afraid they won't break through. Because they, with our connivance, allowed themselves to be reduced to zero. And then, when they ceased to pose a threat to the Kremlin, they were bent over and given the role of tame opposition. And the voters, and they themselves, are endlessly tired of each other.

At one time, Alexander Veshnyakov said that the party must have serious electoral ambitions. It turns out that it must, otherwise this party becomes a convenient and obedient cog in the operating mechanism. A party with ambitions is an eternal guard against the mistakes of the current government. With a rationally thinking, unafraid electorate. And our electorate is scared. And the opposition is jostling each other with their elbows, if only the neighbor would lag behind. When the “Other Russia” was formed, the fact that both the Reds and the non-Reds, the left and the right were all against it was very significant. Against swollen administrative resources. Those walking side by side had a chance to resist this resource. Although I personally don’t like some of the members of this coalition.

But Kasyanov ultimately did not do anything with them on the same constitutional field. Weakening both them and yourself. Each opposition candidate has a thousand arguments why he is not on the same path as the others. Well, everyone will score zero point, hell tenths. What should I, a small unit, do to get them to agree? Well, why did they again let pride prevail over rationality? There is only one answer - they realize that this is their last parade, then they will be released into the arena only on a leash. Well, one of them should understand this? And find a common language with those with whom the direction coincides. This is not a slobbering call for universal fraternization, this is simply the last sand pouring out of the clock of our time.

I will list: Messrs. Zyuganov, Kasyanov, Yavlinsky, Gerashchenko! You have only one factor preventing you from uniting, and this Kremlin factor makes you microscopically small. I am calm for Vladimir Volfovich, he will at least unite with the Martians, if that happens.

And the garbage disposal continues to talk about the apocalypse, and there are no options... He will have to take the bus that came, since the bus taking him where he needs to go has been canceled forever... And the dream of a representative of a frightened society is disturbing; he was told a terrible fairy tale. And no matter what face bends over my head, the features of a lieutenant colonel judoka will still appear in it.