The problem with the Serbian political discourse is that you can hear only two sets of nationalist radicals here: the Serbian government, which goes by the name Serbian Progressive Party these days, and those who go by the name of students these days. EUalive.net‘s Serbia at a crossroads: four scenarios for a nation in turmoil was written by the latter.
According to this line of thought, everything that goes (or doesn’t go on) in Serbia is the responsibility of evil wizards from the EU, and god forbid that any political factor besides the Progressives and the students should exist. The other parties would be a competition for offices and other benefits, and who wants that?
So the evil EU wizards will cast their magic spells, and everything will be hunkydory again. That’s why all of these scenarios talk only about Vučić, students, and the EU. The “unbiased” Serbian authors wrote this.
Serbian dominant narcissist mentality preaches that we have The Best Universities In The World & The Brightest Kids In The World Who Win International Awards™. Those Brightest Kids are the product of their Brightest Parents In The World, those same parents who voted for Milošević’s and Vučić’s political parties ever since 1990.
So the only people who can be responsible and bear guilt for the situation in Serbia are the mythical “neutrals” – those who always opposed Milošević and Vučić.
So here’s a fifth scenario for you: enough people will give up on Serbian nonsense and emigrate or just move on with their lives outside mainstream events, so there will be no one left to pay for taxes that pay the salaries and pensions of the Best & Brightest Intellectuals In The World™. Serbia will be back to the destitute state of the 1990s, without the wars, cause there will be no one left to be conscripted to the military other than the local geriatrics. Enjoy your failed state then, geniuses.
The recent escapade by Dijana Hrka, the mother of one of the canopy collapse victims, when she ended her hunger strike, and surrounded by veterans of the Serbian failed expansionist wars, launched a tirade of wild accusations against Dragan Djilas and “Djilas’s government” that allegedly are to blame for the death of her brother-in-law and ended her performance by saying her sister’s children were threathened with a “bloodied backpack“. Not kidding. The pro-government tabloids loved it.
In this wonderful display of Serbian national unity, both the ruling big-tent coalition and the protesting hunger strikers now agree that everything is Dragan Djilas’ fault. Mr. Djilas is a former high-ranking member of the now-opposition Democratic Party.
In a myriad of smear campaigns launched by the Progressives after they returned to power in 2012, Djilas and a media magnate, Dragan Šolak, were turned into monstrous scapegoats and scarecrows that “ruined Serbia”. Verbal attacks and wild accusations against them are an easy way to garner votes for both opposing camps.
The only thing that The Guardian manages to get right in covering the Serbian protests is that the protesters demand that the opposition parties sit out the next elections, so it would be a referendum between the student ticket and the Progressives. Funny how the protests never asked the ruling coalition to sit out the next election.
Here’s why – both camps want the parochial nationalist alt-right ideology that they represent to stay the dominant social norm. Anything else shouldn’t be allowed, unless it is an insignificant, small band of “traitors” to be pushed around and abused, but pose no threat to them.
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