Hatred has long dominated morals - from domestic to public. The result is apathy and mistrust. And there is a shameless market for votes in a dangerously controlled country. And that is precisely why now is the time to vote.
The countdown has begun before the 7th consecutive parliamentary elections in Bulgaria for the last three years.
Until the day when we will stand in front of the polls, there are several morning blocks left - enough time to saturate the air we breathe intolerably with even more bile, with even greater intolerance towards those who speak differently, who think differently, differently the believer.
On the air - lies and screams. In the virtual space - disgust and rift.
These metastases eating away at the national fabric find their food chain in social networks, which are a laboratory for safe hating. Participants do not compete on this terrain. Everyone is a winner there.
Before slipping into the semi-anonymous magma of the virtual, however, the tonality of simpletons has already sounded on the highest national forums in Bulgaria for years. This is how we got to shameful scenes in the parliament - a boycott of the tribune and broken cables; and in “TV” - to a frank replacement of the society's agenda, paid propaganda, brazen behavior of the invited, aggression against the presenters.
The nation as a unified whole has long ceased to exist
The Cartesian Cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefore I exist) is translated in our country as “I hate, therefore I exist”.
We observed an emanation of public arrogance in the visit of the leader of the populist party “Revival” in the morning block of bTV. The self-satisfied Kostadinov demonstrates a model of political shamelessness, whose impudence increasingly dictates norms of behavior that a significant part of the audience perceives. He himself, partly a product of the media, never got tired of constantly speaking against the media and against that journalism that tries to respect the ethics of the debate.
The “upgrade” by the media creation Slavi Trifonov, who “releases” and he stops, brings in and brings out his party companions on the air, in the hall, in scandals, in conflicts. This sharpening of the nails on the presenter Maria Tsantsarova only shows the touching helplessness of the self-forgetful gentlemen.
Instead of freedom of speech – hate speech
How did it happen that in the name of pluralism and freedom of speech, hate speech is heard more and more in the prime time of the most influential media? How is this infection countered?
Doesn't anyone doubt that the number of people who read the official statement of bTV and that of CEM is insignificant compared to the audience of the spectacle that took place on the air.
By the way, isn't it time to comment on the essentially spectacular parades of Kostadinov from screen to screen, alongside representatives of the right-wing populist "Alternative for Germany"?
Hate - this human feeling - has long dominated the morals of society. From household to public. From home to the square. We reproduce our own failures and sink into a kind of hazy misanthropy. The result is apathy.
Disintegration in a dangerously controlled state
Ahead of the seventh consecutive parliamentary election in the last three years, voters remain disgusted with political feudal lords whose property fortunes are light years from their own panel.
Most likely their only response will again be to stay at home, let others choose once again between the man from Bankia, the comrades from “Positano”, the clowns from the TV show and the Magnitsky-sanctioned billionaire. who neither spits nor hides himself.
Elections amid scandals. Against the backdrop of a crushing mistrust of everyone against everything. On a dizzying collapse of the structures that should hold the democratic order. In a dangerously controlled state.
There is a blatant market for votes. And that's why right now is the time to vote.
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