As I have already written, I am not going to vote for the Republican Party and I think that most of the criticism which today sounds to the address of this party is fair. But this does not mean at all that every single word said by an RPA member is wrong and every single word of their contender is right.
I would like to talk about a very principled and tender issue: the emigration. During one of the meetings in Dilijan, a citizen demanded something from the Prime Minister and in the case of the failure to fulfill this demand, he promised to emigrate. The Prime Minister’s answer, in my opinion, was quite adequate, “formulate your question as appropriate and do not threaten with leaving the country.”
Generally, when discussing any issue we should avoid the language of blackmail, also because it may eventually outrage the target of your blackmail and induce just the actions about which you are threatening to apply “sanctions”. For example, when I am intimidated that “if you write this way or think that way, I will say that you are one of the government men,” if I were younger and inexperienced I would have “sent” the blackmailer to an appropriate place and would be tough in my words. But since I have heard this several hundred times in 25 years, especially in critical “pre-election” moments, I am repeating only one thing: “this will go away too.” (In the era of Internet, it is more ridicule when any “fake” who “has no courage” to introduce himself by his name and last name intimidates the author of the article or the editorial with some yellow or red cards).
Now about immigration. This intimidation has been voiced many-many times in the conversations with me. Why do they say this to me? For me to say, “Yes, my dear, you are right, this country will never be fixed, all of them must be burnt.” If I say the opposite, “Oh, do not leave, please, everything will be fine,” my interlocutor will be further encouraged and continue the topic of “burning”. Therefore, I say, “it is up to you” because I truly think so. This answer is followed by a not so much convincing and “inertia” epilog: “but I am a patriot, man”, and thus, the conversation ends.
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When the threat of emigration is voiced for the ear of an official (in this case, the Prime Minister), then it is expected that the reaction of the official would be as follows: “Oh, do not leave, I will give what you want.” This is what a number of other candidates participating in the elections do. But the inadequate reaction to the threat of emigration degenerates people, makes them a cadger, beggar, and expecting for a magician “king”.
And we, “the ones who have the right to freedom of speech”, sometimes orient the society wrongly. There is a TV program where the host always asks a question to his guests, what keeps you in Armenia. By itself, from the psychological point of view, the question is wrong. It is almost like, “What keeps you with your mother since there are better women?”
