Fists after a fight

But Depardieu is right - the opposition has no program. Any, any opposition - white-ribbon, Duma, systemic, non-systemic - whatever.

All her activities are based on the “stimulus-response” principle. No thoughts for the future. The initiative is completely given to the opponents.

Sometimes a thought flashes through the mind: if the latter had not introduced any new laws, Onishchenko would have fallen silent, deputies Zheleznyak and Yarovaya would have remained silent, then the entire opposition might have dissolved itself at once, since all the reasons for opposition had disappeared, there would have been nothing to discuss and nothing to deal with fight. Precisely “with nothing,” because “for what” is too profound for professional representatives of the front.

All this year, opposition actions have been retaliatory in nature: elections have taken place, the law has been approved, and now, after a fight, having missed and kept silent everything possible, our “opposition” begins to courageously and spectacularly fight what has already become a legal fact, has begun to act and be applied in practice.

Yesterday's senseless march, today's senseless initiative of the communists to investigate Livanov's activities - this is all a fight against yesterday. The struggle may be abstract and reasonable, but completely incomprehensible in terms of logic and the pragmatic results it should achieve.

If we talk specifically about today’s initiative of the communists to organize a parliamentary investigation into Livanov’s activities, the question arises: where were you before? Why did they allow the education law to be quietly pushed through, why weren’t they outraged by the same criteria for ranking the effectiveness of universities four months ago, why did they flirt with the developers of the educational collapse starting in July?

The only logical explanation for the meaning of all these belated actions is elementary PR, the desire to retain the role of “oppositionist” without risking anything and without essentially changing anything. After all, the activities of a real, active, active opposition should be proactive. Moreover, proceed from your own ideas about the agenda, and not from those that are offered to it.

Meanwhile, the “opposition” seizes on any agenda that the blogosphere and the media offer it. Any post, any event of the day for her is like the last straw for a drowning man. They went on strike, they stole, it broke, it collapsed, they accepted it, they disgraced themselves? Thank God, now there is something to protest around, something to support your reputation, something to fight for today, tomorrow, and maybe even for a week!

Day after day, jumping over bumps, among the swamp swamp of media obscurity, with the threat of drowning, without receiving news, in the swamp quagmire of topiclessness, aimlessness, the meaninglessness of our activities - these are the realities of our opposition.

And again the question arises: the opposition, which always lives only according to the principle of the contrary, which itself has no plan, tactics, goals, tasks - what is it worth, is it an opposition?