Great analysis of the abyss we're continuing to quickly fall into, Boyan! The biggest shock for me was the almost 5% of votes for this new saviours project Величие, Splendour or Greatness or however one wants to translate it. The voters of We continue the change are pretty obvious - a brainwashed fanatics tribe of mostly "young-(ish), educated (clearly not) families" concentrated in the devastatingly urbanised Sofia who have "luxury" jobs and a stable, good income. I work alongside many of them and have some in my friends' circle. I'm seeing how they are completely unable to look rationally at their political favourites.
I never thought I'd ever prefer Borissov although with the Magnitski list, in the last four years, he's become very motivated to toe the Euro-Atlantic line more than he was before.
The sorry state of our once great nation is a product of our own making. At this point, I'm not sure things will turn around even if Bulgarian men are thrown into the Ukrainian meatgrinder or if Turkey manages to officially annex the southeastern parts of our country.
Bulgarians' silent surrender — A nation’s vote for oblivion
Last Sunday, the so-called Bulgarian public demonstrated its interest in discontinuing its own statehood.
BOYAN STANISLAVSKI
JUN 11
"The general parliamentary and European Parliament elections held concurrently on June 9 in Bulgaria produced disastrous results. Although no one expected groundbreaking changes, many hoped for at least some movement in any direction other than straight into the abyss.
However, the political landscape that emerged on Monday, June 10th, is terrifying.
The two Sunday elections clearly demonstrated what a handful of journalists and scholars have been repeating for several years — the demoralization and apathy accumulated in the mass consciousness over more than three decades have proven more effective than all the wars in which Bulgaria has participated since the dawn of its modern statehood 150 years ago."
Demoralization and apathy are evident in the US as well.
And just look a Argentina where they voted for a maniac and then have protests over his policies which his dog (I did you not he says he speaks with his dogs about such matters) suggested and he implemented is itself psychotic.
Elct a fascist and then protest the next day against his or her policies well known before the vote.
In fact, in Latin America 'nulo' votes or null votes get 22% of the vote in places.
People are apathetic in Bulgaria, and demoralized for all around them are bombs and NATO.
The are in a quandry. And a quandry, unlike a problem, is almost impossible to overcome.
Eastern Europe is itself in the same position.
What people seek is a new model of economics. Not capitalism and not USSR socialism.
And they have little remedies in achieving it within the Bulgaria corporate state.
The material conditions all over the world are ripe for socialism.
Alas, socialism needs passionate and critical thinking advocates to forge a road.
The Kardashian culture in the US has had deep effects psyscologically.
There is no work, no public spaces and so, as Gramsci noted, the 'cultural hegemony'of capitalism negatively effects all minds, filling them or washing them..
For readers and listeners one might wish to listen to:
Harriet Fraad: How Capitalism Shreds Our Personal Lives
Great analysis of the abyss we're continuing to quickly fall into, Boyan! The biggest shock for me was the almost 5% of votes for this new saviours project Величие, Splendour or Greatness or however one wants to translate it. The voters of We continue the change are pretty obvious - a brainwashed fanatics tribe of mostly "young-(ish), educated (clearly not) families" concentrated in the devastatingly urbanised Sofia who have "luxury" jobs and a stable, good income. I work alongside many of them and have some in my friends' circle. I'm seeing how they are completely unable to look rationally at their political favourites.
I never thought I'd ever prefer Borissov although with the Magnitski list, in the last four years, he's become very motivated to toe the Euro-Atlantic line more than he was before.
The sorry state of our once great nation is a product of our own making. At this point, I'm not sure things will turn around even if Bulgarian men are thrown into the Ukrainian meatgrinder or if Turkey manages to officially annex the southeastern parts of our country.
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Bulgarians' silent surrender — A nation’s vote for oblivion
Last Sunday, the so-called Bulgarian public demonstrated its interest in discontinuing its own statehood.
BOYAN STANISLAVSKI
JUN 11
"The general parliamentary and European Parliament elections held concurrently on June 9 in Bulgaria produced disastrous results. Although no one expected groundbreaking changes, many hoped for at least some movement in any direction other than straight into the abyss.
However, the political landscape that emerged on Monday, June 10th, is terrifying.
The two Sunday elections clearly demonstrated what a handful of journalists and scholars have been repeating for several years — the demoralization and apathy accumulated in the mass consciousness over more than three decades have proven more effective than all the wars in which Bulgaria has participated since the dawn of its modern statehood 150 years ago."
Demoralization and apathy are evident in the US as well.
And just look a Argentina where they voted for a maniac and then have protests over his policies which his dog (I did you not he says he speaks with his dogs about such matters) suggested and he implemented is itself psychotic.
Elct a fascist and then protest the next day against his or her policies well known before the vote.
In fact, in Latin America 'nulo' votes or null votes get 22% of the vote in places.
People are apathetic in Bulgaria, and demoralized for all around them are bombs and NATO.
The are in a quandry. And a quandry, unlike a problem, is almost impossible to overcome.
Eastern Europe is itself in the same position.
What people seek is a new model of economics. Not capitalism and not USSR socialism.
And they have little remedies in achieving it within the Bulgaria corporate state.
The material conditions all over the world are ripe for socialism.
Alas, socialism needs passionate and critical thinking advocates to forge a road.
The Kardashian culture in the US has had deep effects psyscologically.
There is no work, no public spaces and so, as Gramsci noted, the 'cultural hegemony'of capitalism negatively effects all minds, filling them or washing them..
For readers and listeners one might wish to listen to:
Harriet Fraad: How Capitalism Shreds Our Personal Lives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF3HhkCyTEs
She is very good on these issues.
We live in a metastizing global capitalist nightmare.
And it affects all minds. A form of menticide.
so the objective conditions are ripe, but the subjective conditions, or class conscious public are so ignorant and confused,
This is why fascism wins.