The main “contingent” of the rally has not been changed over 25 years. Mostly they are elderly people who will go to any rally of any opposition, including the ones of Arkady Vardanyan and Tigran Karapetovich. They are ready to curse and “bury” any incumbent president and, perhaps, the Prime Minister in the future.
Sometimes young people also appear in the rallies. It was so in the beginning of this year when people were coming to the “Parliamentary troika”, but in fact, the PAP party’s rallies. But what plays a role here, which recently also decides the results of the elections is the money and administrative resources. Otherwise, when the then PAP party leader was declared an “evil”, at least 2-3 thousand people of 10 thousand participants of the rally would go to the President’s residence and ask, “Why is our leader evil?” The majority of participants of the rallies against the funded pension and electricity price hike were the young people, but here too, they say that there was some “administrative resource”.
I have nothing against elderly people, on the contrary, I have great filial respect towards them, ultimately, this expects to all of us. I’m talking about something else. If I see a social group of people in the square, then I inevitably build my speech and thoughts in a way that they understand me and applaud. In 1988, certain educational, intellectual and material qualification people were gathered in the Freedom Square. It is clear that the “Karabakh” Committee members were speaking a language cordial to these people. The problem, therefore, is not only the quantity but also the quality.
Today, the opposition politicians have to speak by the level of “the demon caught Serzh”, for the simple reason that the very audience is more affordable for them. More politically advanced people are passive, powerful arguments are necessary to take them out of their homes, the “administrative resources” are not counted. And then, they have become significantly less over these 25 years and have emigrated together with all other social groups.
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Do you remember there was a party once, whose motto was “Let us form a middle class”? It is a good idea, this very class is both the guarantor of stability in the country and the driving force of rational and measured changes. But in Armenia the “upper class” holds everything to itself, and thus only the “lower class” remains. With all its incurred political consequences.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
