Letter to the leaders of the democratic process

"Dear leaders of the democratic process ..."

However, who do I mean? Of course, not Duma parties. Nor a surround-vodin. Not all this gully with a madhouse on TV. Not a pocket opposition from fair -Russians, led by a decorated dusty bag, Mironov. (“Oh, I remembered, does it still exist?”) In part, maybe this is still an appeal to Zyuganov and Co., because they directly write that they are not averse to changing the social system. However, if the surprise recently, then only how he, the communist, combines the king, Lenin, socialism, capitalism, God and Putin, at the same time promising his supporters the Gulag, Stalin and the next complete nationalization. Get and rejoice! I would not mention him, if he, too, had not been going to advance and did not live in part of our people a delirious sovereign idea that “Russia is a left-handed country” and for some period a tactical alliance with the Communists is possible, at least in the field of self-government and labor law.

But in general, this appeal, of course, is not to them, but to others.

To smart and liberal. To Navalny, Yavlinsky, Khodorkovsky, Gozman, Kudrin, Gudkov (both), Yashin, Roizman (probably), Schlosberg (probably), Bykov, Sobchak ... Who else? Here, of course, is also the problem of all who will be important at the time of a hypothetical political transformation. Or whoever stands up in front of ... (the antonym of the “transformation”, apparently, is a kind of enchantment), at the ice wall of anger.

Moreover, I do not pretend to be accurate knowledge of persons and realities. One of the right ways to enter this topic is to turn to the totalitarian Internet groups to support stability and order. They specialize in the publications of lists, whom they urge to hang, shoot, send from the country - usually these are our supporters. Although, on the other hand, this list of them cannot be precise, since many of it have already stopped functioning by age, such as Solzhenitsyn, Yeltsin and Sahars. They just died for a long time, but remained in the lists. Others were killed. And they, too, remained on the lists, continuing to be subjected to reproach. Although we, unfortunately, can no longer recruit on the liberal barricade.

To the liberal political scientists and publicists ... Pavlovsky, Bunin, Satarov, Shevtsova, Schulman, Morozov, Martynov, Rogov ... He did not call everyone, sorry.

That is, to those who understand that the mileage of March 2018 is approaching with the inexhaustibility of Trotsky’s armored train from the series of the same name, and no one is ready for it. Although, we know for sure that as a result we will enter the future, which is no different from the past. And it will be such a groin day.

"Dear leaders of the democratic process, we understand, you understand this, but what do you offer?"

In general, if we believe that politics is not only a business of politicians or the experience of the opposition’s survival in the context of rolling into asphalt, but also science, ethics, and duty, then it could be such a collective questionnaire with an sight of the test of honesty.

“Do you think the Kremlin army in the foreseeable perspective will allow real competition in their elections? If not, what is the model of our behavior, in addition to demonstrating readiness for cooperation by turning on polling stations? ”

“What do you think, is it theoretically possible to overturn voting in Russia, after which the levers of power will be in pro -Western liberals? (It is clear that only the pro-Western liberals have a ticket to the future, not the nonsense of the Eurasians. Moreover, they are not even more delusional those who are “the island of Russia and we ourselves with a mustache.” Perhaps this thesis will seem rude to someone and philosophically not fulfilled, but nothing else is proposed yet, and the levers of the authorities will not find themselves with pro-western liberals, but the levers of the authorities. And there is no chance that they will be, then what is the liberal strategy? ”

“What do you think, if on March 11, 2018 it does not become a fateful day in the history of Russia, is it rational to build the entire political life of the late 2017 and early 2018 exclusively at a meeting of this day? Maybe you need to get out of this paradigm and meet something else? "

And finally - the most important question.

“Here will begin a new political cycle. His slogan: "We continue to go crazy." What political hopes can we find in it? To be honest, will they not be based exclusively on the next painful fall in the economy, after which new people will be recruited, or do we still hope for an unexpected sober-up of our compatriots? And if the fall, we will survive? And "new people" are not fascists, by chance? "

Actually, so far, as far as I see, there are only two options for political behavior.

Stupidly participate in the game proposed by the authorities in the elections or stupid not to participate in it. At the same time, people, voters, seemingly not and want to be circled around the finger, but still inevitably drawn into the funnel of the “election campaign”. Otherwise, you can’t explain the hot polemic around the Sobchak, which de turns the latter into a buffoonery. As if she was not a buffoonery without her. It is clear why you are participating. Because many of you need to stay with your brands, get access to at least some microphone (at 7 in the morning on the debate or in boorish television shows in the evening, which will last ten days), where you will say something that will identify you subsequently as democrats and liberals. Undoubtedly, this is important.

It is clear that there is an equally important task - to preserve the structures and functioning supporters in the tone. Do not let them scatter in kitchens and abroad (imagination throws up the image: vampires are preparing for hibernation in the tombs until the sun sits). Yes, and it is important to continue to make small geshefts in a secondary election, supporting not quite brutal officials. That in general it is in any way and will not change anything.

Or the second option: sharply turn into the so -called boycott - to the side, but with about the same result. Since the boycott has the restriction that the authorities may not “notice” it, and the boycotters, obviously, will not be able to consolidate and win the dispute even in the group of potential supporters. A beautiful-minded boob can always stand up and say that the action is better than inaction. Try it, object!

Since I, apparently, will not wait for your answer to the questions posed, I will try to give my own.

Anyway, honestly in such elections - not to participate. After 2018, obviously, decline and madness will continue, they must be prepared for them. If you unite, then not around the “candidate”, but around the “candidate platform”, which since 2018 should begin to impeat “Russian rule” immediately after its false prolongation.

The imposition path is the initiative to amend their protective attitudes, ignore the prohibitions, an unequivocal order to stop the “Cold War” with the West, a wide public controversy regarding the future fate of Crimea (criminally prohibited in Russia, but this ban should also be ignored, since it is unconstitutional). If you can’t overturn catastrophic power, you must learn not to notice it, turning this detachment into a new policy. It seems that it seems that it is not given.



Photo: Russia. Moscow. December 24, 2011. During the rally of the opposition "For honest elections" on Sakharov Avenue. Valery Sharifulin/TASS