: National paternity test

The authorities on the eve of the elections actively sends the signals of a paternalistic nature. Message alone: ​​"If not Putin - then who?" The transformation of Putin into the “Father of the Nation” and “The only Hope” threatens with unlucky consequences, because high expectations sometimes lead to rapid disappointment.

On the eve of the presidential election, the Russian authorities are again intensely looking for ways to their voter. For what purpose, a variety of populist steps are taken, primarily a paternalistic nature. It’s not that at other times the representatives of the Russian authorities behaved very differently, but now the speed of the reaction to the current agenda is much more, and the radicalism of decisions and statements has slightly increased.

For example, the problems of Lanta-Tour tourists have begun problems. Earlier, the government would have thought for a long time, sympathetically stating that "will take measures." Tourists, meanwhile, sat abroad, with expiring visas, money and patience. Now, literally with one stroke, Prime Minister Putin solves the problem: the cavalry attack on the Minister of Sports and Tourism Mutko (“What does this mean: we will try to solve problems? We need to solve immediately!”) And now the agreement with VTB has been reached. The bank will now provide money so that customers of a bankrupt company return to their homeland.

Or again - as always inappropriately - the sowing and the village (usually large agricultural producers, but these are trifles) is approaching under the elections) again publicly complains that the fuel is expensive, and hence all the troubles sat down. For the current prime minister, such a statement of the question is not a novelty and immediately follows a gift to the village. The fuel discount will now increase to 30 percent, and not from the retail price, but from wholesale, and the volume of preferential supplies will become more by 10 percent. It is clear that you will have to pay for this, but the oil workers can tolerate. In the end, there are fewer oil workers, and ordinary employees are unlikely to reduce the salary due to premiere generosity.

Salaries and pensions to the military have already been increased, scholarships were indexed by a leading pace. Fishermen were canceled “Fish-cards” and generally promised liberties in the process of fishing.

The authorities now act (or promises to act) almost on the principle of "land to the peasants." Well, fishing, respectively, to fishermen.

Other benefits and gifts to different groups of potential voters will undoubtedly still follow. Again, on the agenda next week, the candidate Putin Socialist.

In the field of intangible requests of citizens, the authorities are also trying to satisfy. Of course, not low -grade “blockbusters” of domestic production and not even highly spiritual bast of Nikita Mikhalkov, and talking about the global - about the homeland, people, nations, and authorities. Here, a train to Putin’s performance on the pages of the “Independent Gazeta” today was a performance by the Putin Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. Rogozin is generally active during the boss campaign, and his depth of defense issues has nothing to do with it.

The Deputy Prime Minister spends a lot of time on trips, meetings-and the latter are attended not only by comrades subordinate to Rogozin, but also by numerous (well, relatively numerous) representatives of the Putin’s “All-Russian Popular Front”. In fact, Rogozin for the chief conducts a pre -election campaign, therefore his reasoning on the national question is a kind of decoding of the Putin article. “What you were afraid to hear from Putin,” practically.

Rogozin acts as a “soft nationalist” and the leader of the “Congress of Russian Communities”, the article ends with the slogan “Glory of Russia!” - Here is such a deputy prime minister. And the main message: “Society really groans from the greed and rudeness of the Russian bureaucracy, which it is high time to roughly tear for mockery of the people and the law. But those who are trying to rock a political boat do not aim at the bureaucracy. They aim in Putin. Do you know why? Because Putin today is a symbol of the policy independent of the “Washington Regional Committee”, the only leader remaining in Europe, which was not crushed by the rink of American hegemonism. ”

In other words "if not Putin, then who?" If not Putin, then bureaucrats, if not Putin, then the “enemies of Russia”.

The concrete problem of power, therefore, is seen by the authors of Putin’s campaign in the consolidation of the “Putin electorate” through the confrontation of Putin of the bureaucracy and (again, like several years ago) implicit, but dangerous “enemies of Russia”. Address rains of money can also help the voter to understand - if with Putin (God forbid!) What will happen, then the conditional Zyuganov and Prokhorov will immediately take everything away.

In the conditions of the support of the “bribery and consolidation” strategy that has narrowed over the past two or three years, perhaps the only thing that the candidate may really be presented. Other successes of the Putin government are not so obvious or even controversial, and here also intelligible specifics (benefits, targeted assistance, increase in payments) and natural geopolitical metaphysics.

The map of the “father of the nation” is the only Putin trump card during the campaign.

Another question is, what will be of an attempt to satisfy everyone and everything (well, with the exception of those who “swing the boat”, but there are not many of them, according to the authors of the campaign). How is President Putin going to pay for the bills already issued with the promises of a particular social group? How is he going to increase his political capital after the election - due to what? The elections will be held, but the questions will remain.

The rates are already increased: reforms, and the continuation of the “Putin’s prosperity”, and the growth of income, and the pacification of bureaucratic lawlessness are promised. The “bubble of expectations” is again swollen. The problem is that real starting positions for playing high expectations are much worse than in 2004 or even in 2000. The candidate has long been known and some of the population is already tired of him, the economy cannot cope with the economy, but in reforms, which will quickly change the appearance of the country, is weak.

Vladimir Putin did not demonstrate the ability to shorten the bureaucracy for all the years of his reign, the national economy of radical structural changes has not undergone, and the budget went into a minus in a crisis. Who and how will pay for new increased expectations? And the "stuffy" expectations tend to turn around with a quick disappointment. And with whom then will the nations pay “alimony”, is it really from her “father”?

However, there is one simple answer: the government can be accused of everything. Moreover, the younger colleague in tandem will stand at his head, he did not endure that.