Pension wick

No, my friends. Not some creative class, hipsters and intelligentsia will change the regime. This will happen at a time when the so -called "simple people" will actively or silently support them. Which has still reacted to our political life rather sluggishly. Because the authorities (it is not important in what way) guaranteed the people a piece of bread, sausage, vodka and other goods in the assortment and the notorious "confidence in tomorrow."

When our ancestors have been preoccupied with food and survival issues for centuries, bread and sausages, which are always available, coupled with periodically thrown budget increments to retirement or salaries, this is a very strong trump card. More citizens are not yet required. And the time should pass before they realize that there is something in life besides sausage.

Now, when the state controls the economy, these people are directly dependent on salaries, benefits, social services and the like. And for this reason, this whole muddy story with pensions can become a wick worse than Bolotnaya. Our people are grateful to the authorities, but his memory is short, and love is unstable. And this love for the leaders will end at the moment when the grandmas suddenly do not pay a pension. Or simply stop raising it at continuously rising prices. When interruptions in salaries begin or they will again stop indexing.

And the authorities will immediately cease to seem kind and caring. And it is impossible to arrange “Putings”, elected “carousels” and falsification flash mobs. In power, there will simply be no levers of influence on people. They will cease to be dependent on her. Why will we support you if you do not pay money? What kind of karamas can you scare us, what dismissals if there are no salaries?

To change power, it is not at all necessary that all these people go to the square. Their actual consent with the fact that they do not need this power is enough. After all, and when the Soviet government collapsed, only a small percentage was still on the streets. Most showed no activity. But at the same time, everyone was obvious for, more precisely, against whom they are. Therefore, neither in 1991 nor in 1993. The Communists failed to win. They did not have support.

The ineffectiveness of the economy and management, theft reached such a scale that with a stably expensive oil it turns out that the state does not have money for the payment of our funny pensions, and the Prime Minister suddenly reports that “the time of simple decisions has passed” and makes delaying the belts. Not our own - ours. But they have no choice. At all costs, they will have to plug pension and budget holes. Otherwise, the audience of the "zombie", today obediently clapping his eyes, will betray them tomorrow. And well, if at the same time it will do without repeating events on October 3-4, 1993 on a much larger scale.

Photo by Maria Olendskaya / Hedgehog