political
by Vasil KolevI feel sleepy, let’s see what will come out…
Another protest is over, two people were arrested (which is less than the protest at Eagles’ bridge with the around 30 arrested). A lot of reactions showed in the blogs (I won’t talk about the mass-media, for me they’ve lacked meaning for a long time as a information source, they’re just a method for controlling public opinion in a sheep society).
So most of the reactions are negative. Starting from that when some people were dragged to be arrested, nobody tried to save them (and to escalate the situation in a pretty bad way), to that there’s no more meaning in those and something else needs to be done…
For me the last people are right, and have been for some time. The demonstrations are mostly an exercise for the police in crowd control (and they’re starting to learn) and help to vent the protesters’ feelings for a while. The only effect for this is that the media shows this and that makes some politicians nervous, so they push the media a bit to be careful.
For me the system is not working. And it’s needed if we want the peaceful protests to have meaning…
The only useful and lawful way for a reverse link from the people to the power are the elections. Here this is neutralized very well with the creation of unusable puppet candidates. The joining of a new candidate is made as hard as possible because of the money needed and the others ways to push them, and because of the fact that most honest people would be ashamed to be associated with our state.
(not that the idea for a parliament of 80% independent candidates doesn’t sound interesting… but I really don’t know if it’ll work)
So what’s left… An armed coup d’etat (without or with the army, although they suck badly), aggressive demonstrations with stones and sticks or some kind of pressure through the European Union (e.g. to confess that we can’t do this ourselves and need someone to do us). There’s also the way to gather a group of people with a good and full program, to make a campaign and to take this way the power, but there’s the small thing that it will be playing against the people that own the field and have written the rules… Not to mention that the whole system is made to corrupt the people in it and changing it will require massive changes. And it’s a bit hard to be a part of the solution if you’re a part of the problem.
Theoretically it’s possible to do the experiment to make a ruling party that was created on a distributed principle, not on a centralized one, with somewhat independent candidates and with members with distributed responsibilities. In practice I remember what happens when some problems are solved by a committee…