During the campaign in one of the villages, the elderly people “crossed the road” of the leader of the “Republic” party, Aram Sargsyan, convincing him that he should have “bumped off” his brother’s murderers and their clients.
The answer of the politician was quite adequate, no state can be built by “bumping off”, becoming a murderer on the “ideological ground” you will be no different from the perpetrators of “October 27” and will cause only problems for your state. Certainly, you cannot persuade the “grandpas” and the majority of the population, they were adhering to their opinion and rebuked the interlocutor that “he turned out to be a weak guy.” (Aram Sargsyan’s remark that his brother was against any arbitrariness and illegal violence is another matter. However, I recommend not going further in this matter. As they say, aut bene aut nihil). About “bumping off.” This is the mentality of a nation having no state.
Indeed, you can meet supporters of similar methods in the developed countries too. For example, Anders Breivik in Norway. But the difference between us and Norway is that the majority of the society over there did not exclaim “well done, good for you, dear Breivik, you are the hero of the nation, the Norwegian government is to blame, the migrants are to be blamed, there was no other choice” (although there are Breivik’s fan clubs). The majority is against it, and the reason is that the Constitution was adopted in Norway in 1814, while the national-liberation struggle against the Swedes was over in the mid of the same century. Therewith, the cult of “powerful guys” was over.
In any stressful situation, for example, during the elections, the supporters of “bumping off” become active. It is not officially mentioned in the campaign but as a threat of bloodshed, however, it sounds. Apropos, the ORO supporters must decide either to claim that they are building a lawsuit against the “coordinator” of their alliance or to announce that he really wanted to use weapons to solve the domestic political problems and to applaud it, “good for him, they deserved it, they all should be bumped off, he is one more Sasna Tsrer guy.” The first one is beneficial in terms of the pre-election campaign, but the second one is much more “popular” and agreeable by vast masses.
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I think it is natural that the politicians want to be pleasant to the “popular masses”. But there should be people and intellectuals who do not need a seat in the parliament or an office and are ready to go against the stream.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
