During this week, it is the second time that I am hearing from two women-lawmakers representing different political directions that if someone dares to say anything wrong about my party and the leader of my party, the counterattack will be terrible. Recently, the representatives of “ORO” alliance complained that a campaign is kicked off against them, hence they are preparing counterattacks. On his Facebook posts, Paruyr Hayrikyan posts counterattacks to those who disagree with him which usually begins with an exclamation, “Hey you, paltry fellows”.
Generally, open the Facebook and you will see that it consists of “racket runs” and “counterattacks” by representatives of different political forces with the principle of “nothing will remain unanswered”. Incidentally, surprisingly RPA is the least seen in this flow of attacks and counterattacks; mutual “piercings” is done by the campaigners of remaining parties. Well, it is clear that each one has at least one website, and now the party headquarters are engaged in search of negative posts about their political forces and organizing a “worthy counterattacks” on their websites.
I recalled that 20 years ago one, one of our brilliant journalists, Genofia Martirosyan, wrote an article in “Aravot” Daily about the drawbacks of privatization in Armenia, with sharing the experience of Germany how the GDR “people’s enterprises” were privatized. The ruling party did not like the article and answered with a “counterattacking” article in its official newspaper with the following title: “The order is done at the street level.” I laughed with Zhenya a lot because neither in those times nor in the subsequent years, I have given an order to write a good or bad thing about anyone.
It seems to me that the lack of broad-mindedness is becoming a “trend” not only in Armenia, the former Soviet Union but also in the world. Recently, the US president Donald Trump allegedly had called a press conference, while actually, he had gathered the journalists to “moan” at them and give “counterattacks” to their publications. He communicates with journalists exactly in the same way as it does, let’s say, Lukashenko: you must cover this issue in this way, you must deliver positive news, you write lies about the work of the White House and so on. Trump’s next move, I assume, is to open his own media and post “counterattacks” there. And have you tried not to give any counterattack to anyone? Do you really think that it would be considered as a sign of weakness?
