By Andrej Nikolaidis, CdM columnist
Do you remember those Dalai Manda promotional footages for the presidential elections? Particularly the one when he almost cried because of our divisions in which he himself took part. He is so sorry for that so he decided to continue doing the same – so that younger generations can learn from his example and see what and how not to do it.
That is why he continued to remove everything Montenegrin from the parliament – and he is especially irritated by flags, those of particular historical importance. Let’s say the first that was displayed. Or the one that stood in the main hall when independence was declared. Mandic again insulted Belveder because he has changed and because he is sorry. That is why, as Montenegro gets closer to the EU, he will be more and more poisonous and more destructive. Until he and his people end up on the streets again, where they have learned to demonstrate their democratic standards.
Andrija Mandić is an ethno-businessman. Someone is selling a bill of goods, someone apartments, someone is selling quail eggs, someone is selling their body, while he is selling nationalism. At the same time, he is a political version of what the Americans call “One Trick Pony” – in literal translation, a circus horse that knows only one trick that it continuously performs. You get it: if there was a discussion in the parliament about sending a mission to Mars, he would talk about the Serbian language. If the sea level were to rise by five meters and it was necessary to take urgent measures to evacuate people from threatened areas, he would talk about the tricolor. If the ecumenical patriarch and the Roman pope announced in a joint statement that Jesus is coming the second time tomorrow and everyone who believes in him should prepare for Armageddon, he would require amendments to the citizenship law. That’s all he knows. But there’s more to tell. It must have been clear to everyone in this world that he and the political group he runs will do everything to break social cohesion, to quarrel and divide the citizens, and all this in order not to slow down, and if possible, stop Montenegro’s entry into the EU forever.
Mandić’s trick is to stir national tensions. He did that, he does that and he will continue to do that. If it looks to you that things are escalating now, you have a bad memory – this is nothing compared to what Mandic did. And in that case, prediction is not your strong point – because all this is just an announcement of what Mandic will do in the near future. And he will do everything to prevent Montenegro from joining the EU. However, one thing is true: Mandic has never been more destructive or more dangerous. He did not, because he had never before had control over the parliament and sat in the chair of the first man, as they say, “the temple of Montenegrin democracy”. It set him on fire despite the fact that in that “temple” he was calling his “soldiers of Christ” to a holy war and activated tear gas.
Fuck it, guys.
You let Putin’s assets lead us to the EU. And that’s not all.
You let into the house (for particularly stupid or malicious readers: this is a metaphor) a man wielding a chainsaw, with a leather mask on his face and a bloody apron around his waist. You did it because Miško Perović told you that he believed in the “emancipatory potential” of the church of which our Leatherface is a soldier. And to make him feel more comfortable, so that he doesn’t feel discriminated against, you changed the mat at the front door – put a new one that says “welcome” in Cyrillic.
What could possibly go wrong there?
Fuck, people. Of course I know that it often pays off to pretend to be stupid and naive. I know that once you decide to put your face under your ass, it’s easy to go through this life: no matter how bumpy the road is, it’s easier for you.
But what’s happening to us now is the lesson from the first grade of elementary school. The fable of the frog and the scorpion.
When a scorpion sees a frog and asks for help to get across the river. And the frog tells: no, I won’t, you’re going to stung me. And the scorpion answers: I would never do it as both of us would drown. The frog then agrees and helps the scorpion across the river. And while the frog was carrying him, the scorpion decided to sting the frog. The frog then asked why and the scorpion responded that it was just who he was.
(The opinions and views of our columnists aren’t necessarily those of the CdM news team)
