Recently, I am not closely following the comments posted on my Facebook page if only they are not a sexual type of swearing and transliterate for purely “ecological” reasons. First of all, I approximately know who and how this or that article will be commented. Secondly, it is a huge saving of time and nerves. Thirdly, since those who “slam” are basically my colleagues and the “adjacent circles”, my fundamental approach is that we should not write a “delation” to each other. If someone writes a “slam” and I will try to answer it, and the third one will support either side, who will benefit from it. You would say, “And what about debating?” I totally agree, there should be a debate but let’s be frank, no debating is possible in Armenia, moreover, on Facebook, because if not the first then the second post would be about the personality of the author rather than about his expressed opinion. And it affects everyone: both the attacker and the target of the attack.
I would offer the same advice to the opposition political forces. Today, just formally, except for RPA and ARF, all political forces are opposition. Even now when local self-government elections are expected, we can notice the trend that has always existed in our political field. The opposition forces are centralized not so much to criticize the government as to reveal the “secrets” of each other. More specifically, since let’s say in Gyumri and Vanadzor, besides the ruling party, also 7-9 opposition parties will be participating in the elections, they have the problem to prove the voters that they are the most opposition and the most radical. And this desire directly stems the thesis that the opposition competitors are not only irradical but are also in “secret deals” with the authorities, their “project”, their “customers”, their “dhol” and so on. Certainly, in a few months, when the campaign for parliamentary elections will launch, these conversations will intensify. However, the local self-government elections are the “general rehearsal”, also in this sense.
Certainly, there could be both “deals” and “projects”, this is a common practice in the world. But the oppositions must calculation whether the campaign resource that is spent on “disclosure of the plots” is worth targeting at criticizing the authorities and whether throwing dirt onto your opposition colleague makes you whiter. If the oppositions take a page of a paper and divided it into two parts and list the gains and losses of writing delations to each other, I think they will easily be convinced that there would be more points in the second column.
Certainly, these are my subjective considerations. The decision-makers are the politicians.
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Aram ABRAHAMYAN
