Hello, “washed” Russia!

As always, United Russia did not deceive - Russia really won a “crushing victory,” as “ours” wrote in the leaflet. She ran the “Chekist hook” across her own torso, right into the solar plexus, and when she bent in half, she hooked herself in the jaw with her fist from below - it was so nice, it cracked.

Churov, shaking his beard, honestly counted and spanked with his lips. When the long-awaited score “10 – knockout” sounded, Russia smiled happily from the floor with her broken lips and applauded her own victory - at first weakly, then more and more strongly.

Victory over oneself is another, deserved, expected. Yes, this time no one will throw a tantrum: “Russia, you’ve gone crazy!” Why bother tearing your throat in vain - this is a chronicle. And reasons to shout “Bah!” Yes, you are entering the mind, mother! - especially not. The sensation did not materialize.

Victory has many fathers.

Everyone will rush to join in - Central Election Commission: and we thought, endless political strategists: give us a prize... Even “jackals” can lurk at the end of the line of winners - those who fervently advised to shame the “sharps” and not sit down to play with them. Here is the subtle strategist Andrei Illarionov, who proposed to take away “trophy ballots” from the polling stations (and how many were taken away?), and Ryzhkov, who advised not to go to the polls (it’s interesting if he, as he suggests, became a “united presidential candidate” - he would you advise the same?), and other Nisnevichs... But let’s not exaggerate their merits, as well as the role of all V.M. Polesovs, who, in the absence of sleepers impregnated with democracy, could not go to vote. “He’s lying down in protest, move over friend, I’ll lie down with you.”

Even if all these “useful idiots” (Lenin) peeled off the protest cushion and came to the polls, what would change?

Not a damn thing would have changed.

Well, the turnout increased by 1%, and the number of votes for the same Union of Right Forces - by 1.5% (i.e., doubled). Delov... For the outcome of the elections, this is truly unprincipled; it would not change anything essentially - there are few, few such “useful idiots” with their complex reflections and thin “voices”. But others - even more “useful” - cannot be shoveled.

The version of the new (and eternal) populists about “insidious power” and “good people” is no worse than the idea of ​​“evil boyars - and a good tsar.”

Power, no words, is good! But she is good, first of all, because she is worthy of her people. Just like the people deserve power.

Electing Zhirinovsky to the Duma five times in a row is Russia, it’s the people.

Choose Mironov, who only knows how to repeat that he loves Putin so much, as 40,000 brothers cannot love, that he is not even able to look at Putin, but he is able, the Chairman of the Federation Council, to suffer for days and nights, as if to deceive the Constitution – this is Russia, this is the people.

When more than 60% of voters vote for “Putin’s plan”, not at all interested in what kind of “plan” this is, they vote “For the Motherland, for Putin!”, without thinking at all where he will go tomorrow, not at all embarrassed by the fact that Putin is not going to inform his voters about his plans - this is Russia, these are the people.

Receive 300 rubles from the master's shoulder for the elections. welding to pensions and cursing the Americans who are guilty of all our troubles - this is Russia, this is the people.

Receiving those same 300-ruble increases, firmly believing that the “bossies” are stealing billions, and being afraid to change the bosses, “these stole, and new ones will come and steal more,” - this is Russia, this is the people.

“Reign and rule over us. We joyfully promise complete submission. We take upon ourselves all the work, all the humiliation, all the sacrifices; but we do not judge and decide.” This is the folk political philosophy that so touched Count Lev Nikolaevich in the 19th century and was propagated in the 21st century by Count Pyotr Tolstoy with ORT.

It's clear? The people are ready to defend only one of their rights – the right to no rights. The right to work, humiliate himself, sacrifice - as long as he is not burdened with the responsibility of deciding his own fate. White "Uncle Toms". And this is not the fantasy of a slave owner-populist, this is the real psychology of the people, enshrined in all their “votes.”

Are these the Russian people?

Yes, Russian.

But these are the “good Chukchi of Abramovich”, and the Ingush with the inhabitants of Dagestan, grateful to Putin for their stability, and all the other peoples of Russia - “indigenous” and “non-indigenous”. And migrants who technically don't vote but are very approving of Putin. “The old historical community of people is the Soviet people.”

But this is us - a kind of, if I may say so, Russian intelligentsia, the highest creations of our political thought - the “apples” and the “union of disabled forces”, for which I so successfully campaigned.

Why are these “higher creatures”? Yes, I was wrong, you are right. Not the highest ones. The only ones.

The artist from Chekhov’s story “House with a Mezzanine” responds to the indignant question of an intelligent populist “what do you think the people need?!” He answers irritably - “he doesn’t need anything.”

Well, “nothing” is not “nothing,” but “intellectuals with a mezzanine” are definitely not needed, sir.

Well…

Goodbye, unwashed Russia,

Country of slaves, country of masters.

And you, blue uniforms,

And you, the people obedient to them.

But I wouldn’t want to end with such gloomy Russophobia.

Moreover, why say goodbye, since you are not leaving anywhere, and if you are an emigrant, then only an internal one.

No, on a beautiful, cheerful winter morning after fair elections, I want to say quite the opposite: hello, “washed” Russia!

Russia, which “washes itself,” washes itself in the mornings and evenings. And shame on unclean liberals! Shame and disgrace...