“Well, is it gonna be fine now?”, people with little hope, but great skepticism were asking me in the street after the prime minister’s resignation. So long as people believe that by any of the Prime Minister’s, the President’s or any other official’s replacement “it is going to be fine”, so they will continue living in the world of illusions. Their notion about “fine” is very unique. For example, they believe that a prime minister or a president will come who will announce, “I increase your salary 10 times, and reduce the prices for products 100 times,” and we will have a happy life, and the living will be free of charge. Well, this would be a government “thinking about the people”.
But if passive expectations are quite excusable in the case of ordinary citizens, the politicians, who seem to have a certain intellectual level, should display rather sensible approach. Many of them are literate, simply, to put it mildly, they are not sincere when they present the mid-clans fight for purely economic and corruption levers as “high politics”, and are convincing that the recent slight substitutions taking place in the “top” are carried out in the result of serious pressure of the public or “powerful political forces.”
Actually, a group of oligarchs had problems with the previous government, they wanted to have a new prime minister, or maybe a new leader to accomplish his business-interests at the best. Suppose, he succeeded in it. Tell me please, what is the “systemic change” here? And why do the political forces “holding the tail” of this group believe that any group is better than the other? And, still they are hanging “noodles” over the ears of gullible people that any group is fighting not for its own interests, but universal justice and happiness.
To be honest, my hope is neither the “noodle hangers”, nor those having appropriate ears, but those who live in decent “white” wages and are fighting for their rights. For example, “I am against” team, whose claims are directed not to individuals but the institutions. They do not say, “Down with Poghos, and Long live Petros,” but the CC should do this by the law, the government should do this, the National Assembly should do this, and the President should do this. Such approach, as we saw, is far more effective than the palatial substitutions or even the coups.
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ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
