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JUNE 7, 2019   
When politics is meaningless

The recent events seem somewhat chaotic, as a number of figures who have nothing to do in the newly created situation are trying to show signs of life in the political field and fill the field with fictitious topics. However, the artificial attempts of their “revival” are a consequence of the fact that the post-revolutionary political field has so far failed to outline a clear model of the state’s development and present guidelines by which the country’s authorities will be guided in creating a new state-legal system.

And when the exemplary government itself is not the generator of political processes, it is natural that adventurers of all kinds will try to take the initiative into their own hands, all of whose activities will be aimed only at destabilizing the situation and raising fabricated agendas. In order to counteract it, to formulate a comprehensive vision of state building and to be guided by it, the authorities must first of all be able to overcome the empty and non-ideological vacuum, which gives the opportunity to manifest some unreasonable aspirations of various close political forces.

The point is that neither the current, nor the opposition, nor the extra-parliamentary forces managed to give a qualitatively new content to the political processes, and they still continue to unfold in the old logic, destructive and purely self-serving, as a result of which we are witnessing a series of senseless events leading nowhere.

Apparently, so far there is no fertile ground for the formation of a truly meaningful political field, because the mental patterns created as a result of three decades of imitation of politics and the profanation of political processes do not allow the mind to move to another level of consciousness, and everyone continues to fall into the same hole.

All this is also a consequence of the simple fact that the previous system was not dissolved until the end. pillars were demolished, but the old one is still standing with some minor cosmetic changes. It is anti-democratic in its nature and nature and cannot be adapted to the democratically governed new one. Moreover, that system is well protected by the existing Constitution, which itself is the biggest obstacle to the establishment of truly viable democratic institutions.

The revolution cannot be completed if mutually acceptable values ​​are not proclaimed, which will not be forgotten due to various expediencies, and the legal system of the state that will come to replace the old one, with its rigid structure, logic, tools and, especially, the new Constitution fixing all of that, is not drawn up. Otherwise, it is only a matter of time before the mechanisms of reconstruction of the various former “pyramids” will be set in motion at the behest of the well-preserved old system.

Marina Muradyan


  

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