I must immediately say that there are many PAP party members whom I treat well humanely and sympathize. Starting from the newly elected leader of this Party. More precisely, from the PAP founder Gagik Tsarukyan, who, I think, has the talent of a businessman. Just like Samvel Aleksanyan, Hrant Vardanyan, Samvel Karapetyan, Ara Abrahamyan and many others. I understand – sponsorship, privileges, monopolies, and so on. However, no matter how much I am sponsored, it’s all the same, I will not become a businessman, I do not have the zeal.
However, the politics requires other kinds of abilities, here, you must accurately assess your and your opponent’s resources. PAP has material resources, even so much that it was able to help its partner political party. But it was not enough. PAP obviously underestimated the administrative and law enforcement resources of the government. But it is not essential too. The party had no ideological resource. “We are with the people, next to the people, and share their pain and sorrow” or “we demand an immediate regime change” – these are not ideas but empty words. But this is what it makes the base of purely political resource.
Not to offend anyone, I will again illustrate my example. My task is to write and speak on the air. I enjoy it and try to do possibly well. However, it is not excluded that someone pushes on me and begins to persuade me to become a politician, a parliamentarian, a government official, or I don’t know, an astronaut. It is also possible that without anyone’s “pushing” on me, the so-called “spontaneous” clouding of consciousness may occur in me, and I will start having such ambitions. In this case, all my true friends and relatives should directly face me and say that what I thoughts is a stupidity and I should step back from my intention as soon as possible.
But it is likely that false friends will be found who would start “warming me up” from different sides. “Ah, my dear boss, you’re the second Yuri Gagarin, you are just created to become an astronaut. Quit this writing and start building a spaceship in your garden to fly to the Jupiter.” If it would be pleasant for me to hear this kind of flattering, and I would have the money, I perhaps would start building this spacecraft. But when I fail having success in this task, those who were “warming me up” would immediately disappear, vanish, at the best they would write a “farewell speech” or would even start ridiculing me more than my “ill-wishers.” And this is normal. No one is responsible for my follies. Apart from me.
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ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
