The complete confusion of leading Bulgarian parties and politicians, who clearly do not understand what is happening, is impressive. The fear, the hatred, the struggle with "gender" and about "traditional values" - that's over. By Evgeny Dainov:
It is obvious that the Bulgarian politicians who represent the European agenda do not mind meekly watching their votes melt like a snowman in April. However, this does not really matter. Because, glory to Krishna, everything - everything! - what is happening in Bulgarian politics is a direct result of what is happening in the war against Ukraine and what is happening in America. And there, things are slowly but decisively turning in a direction radically different from what has been happening so far.
The world is turning in the right direction
In the last 25 years or so, the main feeling that increasingly "conservative" politicians encouraged, it was the fear. They did this to sow hatred based on this fear.
Vladimir Putin instilled fear of liberals, "Eurogays" and any other opponents of "traditional values". He eventually turned that fear into a hatred of everyone who wasn't like him. On the soil of this hatred grew the war in Ukraine, which he thought he would win within a week.
Donald Trump sowed fear of immigrants and foreigners to cultivate hatred of all who are not like him - women, blacks, etc. In Bulgaria, several years ago, not only fascists of the Makhlen scale, but even the chairperson of the BSP, Kornelia Ninova, began to deal with this. In our country, after the fear of migrants somehow did not become mass, the sowers of hatred as one focused on "genders".
But the war unleashed by Putin returned to him. To date, it does not control about 1,000 sq km. from their own territory (as much as Sofia, Varna and Burgas, taken together), since Ukrainians settled there. The dark hatred and division that Trump sowed was replaced within days by the joyful and inclusive campaign of Kamala Harris. In this completely changed environment, the pseudo-heroic picture of him with a raised fist and a bloody ear against the background of the American flag was completely forgotten. And if his gloom and hatred had remained the dominant mood, this forgotten photo alone would have given him a huge electoral victory. But to date, it is clear that joy will overcome gloom in America.
In Bulgaria, Cornelia Ninova is no longer a socialist boss and her "conservative socialism" is already more forgotten than even Trump's photo. And in Bulgaria, the darkness and hatred could not drown the joy of the fact that the country got medals thanks to the victories of people who were born elsewhere, but chose to join us. All attempts to inflame some "Bulgaria" against these champions they proved unsuccessful.
The world is turning in the right direction. It will last at least a quarter of a century - as long as the wandering in darkness and hatred lasted. This is more or less the duration of the ebb and flow of human affairs.
Against this background, the complete confusion of leading Bulgarian parties and politicians is striking. With the voting of the astonishing law against "gender" in school teaching they have demonstrated something that has long been suspected - that they do not at all, not at all, in any degree understand what is going on in the great politics of which even we here in our dusty countryside have long been a part. The fear, the hatred, the struggle with "gender" and about "traditional values" - that's over. End. It is gone and no one from here will be able to mobilize serious political support by spreading anti-liberal scaremongering.
Of course, the Constitutional Court also remained in the darkness of the past. After years ago declaring that it contradicted the Bulgarian "national" traditions (which do not appear in the Constitution) the law against violence against women and children, recently concreted the sole power of the Prosecutor General - again with reference to traditions, which are not in the Constitution. Constitutional judges chose the fear of "gender" and from freedom - and so they definitely did not stand before society as pillars of the constitutional order.
And, of course, Borisov's threat that if he had to become a woman, he would give up Euro-Atlanticism sounded like a clip from an ancient black-and-white film comedy. Apart from the fact that even in Trump's mouth such things already sound rather pitiful than funny - how does Borisov imagine all this? One day he goes to Brussels and they say to him: Come let us dress you in a dress? And if he runs away screaming, where will he go, abandoning Euro-Atlanticism? To Russia, the land of real men? Well, we saw them last week. They cannot protect their own territory, but set out to conquer the world…
The tide towards normality is a fact
As if reason has left constitutional judges, Borisov, GERB, as well as those supposedly serious parties, such as BSP and DPS-Dogan, who joined the vote of the weak-minded law against "gender". Any more assertive Kamala Harris-type campaign will cripple them at the polls, as voters avoid giving power to the equivalent of the "village idiot" anyway. Even if the representatives of reason do not make such a campaign, the tide towards normality is still there, and it cannot help but be manifested in the results of our elections. Not to mention that - despite the efforts of the Constitutional Court - both violence against women and children and the omnipotence of the Prosecutor General will meet with increasingly effective resistance.
It's better to have a campaign though, right…
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