Democracy, as we know, is the people’s power. I strongly doubt that there is any country in the world where the power belongs to people. Simply, there are countries where mechanisms are set up so that the power does particularly affect the nerves of the citizens, such countries are conventionally called “democratic”. We do also want to build such a state. How does it take place? In my opinion, the most important step is to value the significance of a Man (rather than some abstract “people”).
In my opinion, the greatest democracy is when you accept the man as he/she is rather than what you want to see him driven from your personal, group, including partisan and political interests. In the second case, you view the man not as an objective but as a means to solve your own problems. And in this case, you will try controlling and manipulating him.
When the political figures and the party members say “people”, they mean a particular mass, whom they are going to “raffle”. It does not matter which way it is done with: 10 or 20 thousand drams, or with fiery speeches? In all cases, they want to use the mass to serve for their objectives and judge the people by the extent to which they meet or do not meet the expectations of the “players”. In the meantime, the real target should be not the mass, the “people” but the Man. If democracy is to manipulate respective masses to your objectives, then the German National Socialists were the most democrats.
… 4 days in a row, the opposition members, instead of discussing constitutional amendments, are “slamming” the president (in our case, as you know, it is a totalitarian regime) with rather ugly words, for 4 days the president’s supporters, in response, were “slamming” the “slammers” with the same words. The purpose for both of them, naturally, is the manipulation: to revolutionize the “people” or “anti-revolutionize.” I do not think that the relationship of the forces has been drastically changed by these mutual attacks. The “ones who are branded by the curse” and the ones who “are not branded by the curse” remained to their opinion. People will not be changed by these games, no matter how many people will go up the barricades and how many of them will take the 20 thousand drams.
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If that is so, then what will make people change? I repeat, if you accept them as they are. It is paradoxical only at first glance.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
