First, let's fix a small semantic error. The referendum is not about adopting the euro, but about not adopting the euro.
Currently, the entire domestic government, supported by the official media, is fighting against its people to adopt the euro. We are witnessing a historical lack of understanding between government and people. Nowadays, "eating pasta when there is no bread" sounds like this: Why do you need a referendum, when you have a legitimate elected authority to decide?
The feeling is confirmed that the ruling class and the people are from two completely different universes. It cannot be otherwise, because the existence of the governing elite no longer depends on the decision of the voters. It depends on statistical tricks, manipulations and falsifications. We know it.
The great opposition today comes from the complete divergence in the interests of the people and the government.
The goal of this media circus is to prevent this referendum from happening without causing widespread popular discontent.
Here are the most common tools for killing the idea that the people can have an opinion.
Divided! "The referendum divided us." God, how united we would be if we were all well-trained turkeys. Right?
Laughter! By ridiculing the idea of a referendum. "Let's have a referendum on whether to eat potatoes with cheese or ketchup." "Meatballs with or without onions." That is, "you are fixated on something unimportant and want to waste the state's resources to express your already chaotic voice."
„You are stupid!” The option that "you are not competent". "You don't understand anything. You are not a financier and you have never managed a bank. You have not even managed a bank branch and therefore you cannot have a correct judgment.
Through Brussels props. "Anyway, apartment prices are in euros. Cars are sold in euros." That is, we have been on the euro for a long time and all that remains is to admit it.
Through native props. If it's not the euro, it's the ruble. That is, if you don't want sugar in your coffee, you must drink it with salt. Or more crudely: if you don't want sweetener in your coffee, then you want to drink it with strychnine. But these are our native pillars, born in not-so-smart heads, so it's forgiven.
The result should be disgust with the idea of a referendum. People who want to express their opinion should be reduced to nonsense talkers who waste other people's time and money. As a result, Bulgarians should understand that we don't need a referendum. It's superfluous. Above our level of competence. Once and for all, we should understand that instead of running around in referendums, we have legally (I love this word) elected representatives who know what they want and how to achieve it. That's right! A separate issue is that for years the only thing these same representatives have known how to achieve is the total disgust of the people, but also the impossibility of being thrown out of the well-oiled mechanism of power, which they affectionately call the “democratic process“.
However, the most difficult to manipulate detail remains how to pass off the referendum as an instrument of dictatorship. The most stupid people are thrown into the defense of this ethereal nonsense. As a doctor, I tell you: stupidity is not contagious, but beware of it!