Alexey Roshchin: "Two Akrobata Brothers"

“In the process of the current, in essence, two obviously related characters - Grudinin and Titov, are highlighted by an extremely dull election campaign. Both are also similar and even, one might say, congruent, which, perhaps, are completely interchangeable,” writes a political strategist in a “living magazine” .

“It is for nothing that one as if represents entrepreneurs and businessmen, and the other is the working class and the labor (especially!) Peasantry. In principle, it would be easy to introduce Grudinin in the place of the candidate of the busy“ Growth Party ”, and Titov, I think, would fit into the role of the“ new person of the Communist Party of the Communist Party ”. Even if they do it right now, no one will notice the substitutions, and if they notice it, they will quickly get used to it.

But, in theory, they should be opposites: after all, one represents the "bourgeois party", and the other - "Party of Workers"! But this is if in today's elections and in general in "Policy" there would be at least some idea. Both heroes are not just a slope of the same - in agriculture; The similarity is deeper - both are fond of growing berries. Only one is strawberries, and the other is grapes.

At the same time, both for the common people are associated with berries, but for both the “berry business” is more cover than a business: in fact, both minioligarchs made their states not at all in berries: for Grudinin, the near Moscow became near Moscow, for Titov - Nefteochemistry. However, the Earth and Chemistry are something thick, viscous and not particularly presentable, but strawberries and grapes are fun, environmentally friendly and folk. For the image, berries are better.

Nevertheless, there is a clear bias in all this. Titov and Grudinin would look quite organically as the candidates of "from the bourgeoisie", but how did the explicit bourgeois be pulled on the role of the leader-communist?! Who did it come to mind? I do not like a communist, but I am also not a supporter of a completely frank absurdity. A cattle or a mechanic from the Lenin State Farm could approach the role of a communist candidate, and a strawberry combiner at worst (recall Gorbachev!); But the owner of the state farm is not.

At the same time, logic - a perverted Soviet, but logic - is still traced here. It is understood that the leading roles in the scoop "on behalf of the people" were always performed by representatives of the nomenclature; And who is the director of the state farm, if not the nomenclature? That is, "you always chose directors - well, here's Grudinin, a typical Red Director!"

It turns out that the “creators” in half of the Kremlin and the “Communists” expect that the people will not notice the substitutions: earlier it was about the “director”, but now about the “master” of the same “state farm”, which now, respectively, is not a state farm, but a private enterprise. But, oddly enough, such a calculation may well be justified! The people really from the time of the scoop do not see much difference: "director", "master" - one feature. The main thing is the bosses! The notorious "they" that are "not us."

This is the secret of the painlessness of such scrapings: Titov can replace Grudinin, Grudinin - Titova, tomorrow Prokhorov will return from America and replace Titov as the leader of the Communist Party of the Communist Party, and the offended Titov will go and lead the LDPR - unless, of course, Abramovich rushed into politics.

In the unprofitable country, nothing makes sense, since first of all the people themselves do not see these meanings. Elections for him are just an overkill of the same authorities that simply tries on himself different masks. "