If the leader of a country is unable to enter a part of their country without the use of force, then there is a serious problem in that country. The government and the Prime Minister himself do not accept that. Pashinyan, most likely, believes that the people of Armenia love him the same way they did in April 2018, but there is a group of people who worship power who have been sold out. Their goal is to steal power from Pashinyan, and so, they organize several provocations with that goal in mind. According to the Prime Minister, it is possible to get rid of them with the use of pressure and propaganda. He does not want to believe that a majority of citizens are truly angry with him, and those feelings can only be alleviated if he resigns.
The opposition and many of their allies are also making the same mistake, in essence. They believe that Pashinyan does not have any supporters. They think his supporters are either public officials, close to the trough, or people who have been paid. That is also the wrong approach and it does not do anything for the goals the state needs to achieve that can only be achieved by public consensus.
The opposition seems to have grown excited by the Prime Minister’s claims that they are part of the elite, and now they claim that they (the people who support Pashinyan’s resignation) are part of the elite and the people, but those who support the Prime Minister are “garbage.” That is also the wrong approach and, by the way, I would advise against using the word ‘garbage’ to describe anyone.
Naturally, there are materialists, careerists, or simply immodest people on both sides. But that is the class that exists always and everywhere. The true division, in my opinion, is as follows: those whom Pashinyan cannot lie to anymore, and those whom he can lie to. In addition, there can be very intelligent and educated people among the second group. Germany in the previous century showed us that intellectuals can also be led to confusion and manipulation.
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Of course, confusion cannot last forever; they will wake up sooner or later. But I believe that the shock of losing that we all experienced on November 10th was not as deep and shocking as the portion of those citizens who came to the realization of who was to blame for that loss. Those people continue to believe in Pashinyan’s myths about “the return of the former regime.” But I have not lost my respect for those people. The time will come (probably after the next catastrophe caused by Pashinyan) for them to get rid of their illusions.
… If we continue the parallels with Germany, then yes, that country was reborn after the catastrophe of 1945 and became one of the most powerful countries in the world. But an important note to make is that Hitler was not in charge of post-war Germany.
Aram Abrahamyan
