There was a time when one of the leaders of Armenia used to speak about “ethnic incompatibility” of Armenians and Azerbaijanis. It seems to me that there is no such thing not only for our two nations but also in general: belonging to this-or-that ethnos cannot lead to compatibility or incompatibility of people. To think otherwise will ultimately lead to the comparison of different forms of skulls, and as it showed, it is a dead-end in the 20th century.
Another question that there could be such ideological differences that it would be difficult to imagine that two people can walk by the same political path. To be ideologically incompatible is absolutely possible. Members of Social Democrat Hunchak and PANM should have visualized the developments paths of Armenia in a diametrically opposite way, and given this factor, these two political parties should not have appeared in the same alliance, which happened in “remote” 1995. It was the first unnatural alliance to which later many other strange unions followed. In this pre-election round, this absurdity has reached supremacy.
The Alliance now enrolls: a/ those who are resentful with the authorities, b/ those who do not get their expected share, including the place on the pre-election list, c/ those who have no money to start a pre-election campaign but are eager to become an MP and have to be “attached” to any rich. I emphasize, we are talking about the ongoing “trade” today: the “Yelk” alliance is formed last year, involving ideologically “compatible” forces, which later want to form a single party. Unlike the “Yelk”, the “elements” of other two alliances are still in chaotic movement causing incomprehensible hybrids.
However, it is stranger than the ideological incompatibility when people who are strongly incompatible in culture, education, and value system are united. I, for instance, will feel great pain seeing Alexander Arzumanyan next to Vardan Ghukasyan, Hakob Hakobyan from Etchmiadzin and Mher Sedrakyan (hopefully, this will not happen). Politics, pragmatism, etc. all this is understandable but it seems to me that it is impossible to reach any noble purpose with these people. Incidentally, I was experiencing the same bewilderment when ANC was implementing a “bourgeois democratic revolution” with PAP.
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Yes, nations cannot be incompatible; individuals are also compatible to the extent that they can create conditions to each other for peaceful coexistence. Value systems, in my opinion, cannot be compatible in some cases. Otherwise, it looks like an old quibble: “Our goal is to justify the means.”
