Public opinion polls, therefore, confirm what we breathe in the street, what we see in high schools, universities and in the ruins of institutions, and in the public speeches of the president of all citizens and the whole of Ćaciland: he nailed some 35 to 38 percent of those who would have voted for him and not by an inch. It is not, of course, easy to estimate how much, in all previous election simulations, he managed to steal, but ten percent, which he would need at this moment, seems too much even for him.
There are several reasons for this, not least of which is the citizens' determination to prevent the robbery of their votes and their lives as much as possible. To that extent, the most interesting question is probably - for whom does time work: for him or for the citizens? The new results clearly show that time is not working for the regime.
How to fertilize capital?
First of all, since the students took an (expected) break to perform, together with the professors, a senseless play to which the regime tacitly agreed - preparing and taking the exam, therefore, during the previous classes - Vučić somehow stopped his own decline, but he cannot increase the shaky support.
Or, as the philosopher Lazar Atanasković from the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad put it nicely, the problem with "populist politics is the same as with capital: if it does not accumulate, if it does not grow, it is no longer capital, it begins to collapse under the burden of the costs of its own maintenance and debts that come due".
In other words, the support enjoyed by the regime of the president of all thugs is not enough to govern, and the question of all questions is what he can do to increase the rest of his capital?
Narrow maneuvering space
The regime's room for maneuver has narrowed considerably and is narrowing every day. Citizens will feel the consequences of the electricity price increase until the new year. The regime will try to alleviate this by printing money, but then it will start leaking out the other side. The situation with the oil industry is unclear because, of course, the citizens have no idea what Vučić is talking about, but if it stays as it is, oil products are too expensive.
And, of course, the inevitable EXPO, for which the president of all citizens is now eating his own liver because it hung on his leg like a prisoner's metal ball: all the remaining money is diverted by the geniuses of the regime to that side - with, of course, the obligatory wrench for themselves - and they extinguished the culture in the country, soon they will extinguish the healthcare as well (which anyway rests on some dedicated doctors-individuals who took the Hippocratic Oath seriously), the education system no longer exists anyway because the ćacii (those who do not distinguish between "ć" and "đ"), were appointed to the position of directors, teachers and professors to ćacilisize children, not to mention agriculture, industry or the terrifying debt (and the repayment time has just arrived).
What the representatives of the regime, led by the one-who-knows-everything-and-understands-everything, utters are nothing more than symptoms: here they are now targeting the student Ognjen Marković, who with a personal gesture removes at least a little stain from the name of Serbia (and anyone who works for Serbia and in its favor is an enemy of the regime), the president of Ćaciland opens an unsafe railway, and those who do not want to sign that the unsafe railway is in fact safe, well, they are cowards
Gathered people do not say such things even in a frenzy, let alone in public. What is happening is not seen only by those 35 to 38 percent of citizens who are either too old to participate in life, too exhausted to resist, or unable to get out of the propaganda bubble. (Users of the mode can see, but for now their money is millions.)
Moves
To that extent, the next moves of the regime are more than predictable (this is how it is in dictatorships): they will try to shut down N1 and Nova, they will raise violence to a higher level and try to mask it with new laws, they will take new loans and start bribing citizens. And, of course, he's going to try to pull off the most spectacular election heist yet. The regime has nothing else.
On the other hand, and somewhat paradoxically, it is completely clear what to do to the citizens, and especially to the opposition. The citizens will continue to press the regime from the outside with their bodies, so on November 1, more people than that city has ever seen could pour into Novi Sad, and then (at least the younger ones) make another round of Serbia. This is – as many times as it needs to be said – a long-distance race.
And the opposition? She, as before, has only one task: to unite and go together with the students to conquer freedom, and, in a better case, to organize and attract part of the artillery fire to herself.
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