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End of the march
You don't have to wait until the end of the march to understand that it is over.
And the anecdotal boast about millions (then for Putin - trillions) does not even increase the size of the failure.
Failure - and in numbers. Well, let the Ministry of Internal Affairs lie, not 14,000, but the standard 30,000. Does this change anything? Once again those who walk have come. If there is no upward dynamics in a year, then this is a march to nowhere. And skill - energy (which usually correlates with the number of participants. But it may be in a small number, or it may not be in a sluggish, herded crowd).
The idiots who write carbon copies of comments believe that for me, other outside observers and outside critics of those who disagree, this failure should cause rejoicing and schadenfreude.
WHAT IS THERE TO BE HAPPY FOR?! What turned out to be right in the opposition's assessments? To hell with this truth (me too, Newton’s binomial!). Fans of one team will really rejoice (well, what?! “Abai” burst!), fans of the other will deny it (“No, it didn’t burst, so you burst!”). But besides this sandbox, there is another truth, a little more important.
This obvious truth is that opposition is VITAL. Well, who doesn't understand this? So on a calm head - who? EVERYONE understands. It is needed in a healthy, developing society (this is one of the reasons and one of the indicators of health), and even in a sick, rotten society like ours... A patient with kleptomania has no doctors, and the only cure is injections of megalomania and delirium through an unwashed TV needle persecution. Such a patient will go far...
Yes, something, but OPPOSITION (not hired “Communist Party of the Russian Federation - served!”), but REAL, HARD opposition - both to the regime and to the entire situation in the sinking country - IS NECESSARY. The opposition is not r-r-revolutionary, but INTERESTED in the future of the country, politically independent, having the will and PROJECT. It’s just in vain to chase vigorous letters - it doesn’t exist. No matter how many capital letters you use, he won’t show up... In 20 years, he never showed up. No matter what you miss, there is nothing. Well, the Mother of God doesn’t want to bring the opposition!
And the country is gently drowning in an oil swamp. The historical fact, as they say, is obvious.
And it is clear that in our pseudo-society, THIS is what they sell for “opposition”. A pitiful mix - partygoers, political freeloaders, incompetents... However, what to swear - and so everything is visible. The same diseases - delusions of grandeur (“millions”) and delusions of persecution of defense consciousness (“whoever criticizes us is an agent of the Kremlin-FSB”, “Vysurkovskaya propaganda”, etc.). And complete, clinical, political lack of will and organizational cretinism.
Creative class... What kind of society is so creative. What power is such opposition to power.
SUCH opposition is possible in two cases. The country is so good that apart from petty banter and fattening, there are no problems. It’s so bad in the country that there’s nothing left except petty banter and fat talk: “Calm down, let’s dive in. Let’s continue telling jokes.”
Everyone is free to choose a point of view close to him... You can deceive a few for a long time, you can deceive many for a short time, but you cannot deceive many for a long time (unless, of course, you have a police stick and an oil carrot). This is what we are seeing.
THIS IS VERY SAD.
“Well, what are you proposing, who imagines yourself to be such a smart guy?! Reveal the secret to us unenlightened ones!” Eternal question. Legitimate question. And the honest answer: NOTHING. If he knew a way out, he would offer it, not hide it.
But at least don’t engage in window dressing, deception, “official-opposition optimism”... At least DON’T LIE about yourself and your loved ones - is that possible? Maybe, from the bitter understanding of their own zilch, someone (even one, even a dozen) will have some kind of energy for REASONABLE action, and not stupid “occupyers”... Anger will appear - not only at the Kremlin, but also at themselves, the fool, who bought into this latest scam and again can’t do a damn thing. “Not a damn thing?! But to hell with you! I CAN!” (I just don’t know what...)
And experience, the son of difficult mistakes... Error-17 turned me away from bloody revolutions. The mistake of the 1930s weaned us off terror. Maybe something in 50 years? — the mistakes of the 1990-2000s will also teach us. Maybe even this year’s mistakes will teach us something. That's the hope.
But the “handshake protest leaders” did not fail. They don't drown. They will continue to argue about the future lustration of “Kremlin agents”, elect each other to some kind of Constitutional Court and in interviews with the media, they will impressively denounce the regime for its Lies, Inadequacy, Complacency, Rotting... What clever words, listen!