Give tanks instead of elections!
Photo from the website of the Election Commission of the Irkutsk Region
In general, who and where did it take that elections are needed in this country? If you look historically, then this stupidity in Russia is engaged very recently. Yes, in the old days there was some bawling at the veche, but who said that it was the case? And if the shouts at the veche are such a good thing, why, in the end, were the Vikings summoned to the board?
And under the Romanovs they did not indulge in such nonsense. No, in 1905 this Duma was stirred up, so did it end well? For the Romanovs, I mean. And for the Russian Empire? I would not say.
In the Soviet Union, many remember what the "elections" were. No, it's so beautiful, "vote for the candidates of the bloc of communists and non-party people!" One candidate for one constituency, okay.
Then this "democracy" began. That is, in fact, the competition was organized by all the same former communists and non-party people who want to live for five years at the expense of the people. The size of the feeder remained the same, and there were more people who wanted to drink from the heart, because there was less work.
And, by the way, who does not believe - look at the list of 450 "servants of the people" and figure out how many of them had a party card in their pockets at one time. The rest of the seats were finished off by all sorts of dancers, actors, athletes and other categories very close to the people and who understand all the problems of being an ordinary person.
And we are surprised that the State Duma invents one law more interesting than the other ... From the latter - to return the column "nationality" to the passport. Well, we have no more important task, right? I don't care about rising prices, inflation, unemployment and the massive outflow of people from small businesses, the main thing is to return the mark in the passport. She will immediately help to improve life.
But, actually, what to expect from such deputies? Those who have been in the Duma for five years only silently vote "for". It does not matter for what, it is important - how. "Per". No, it happens that a deputy will speak for two terms once. Like Tereshkova. Again, the question is how.
In general, elections in Russia are another attraction. Starting from the very first, when the deputies simply demonstrated their readiness to buy votes under the guise of "disinterested assistance to the population" (I participated in campaigns, so I know what I am talking about), to a simple purchase of votes closer to our time.
If there were fair elections in this country, then, perhaps, then, in the nineties. Then everything went on a knurled one.
And they got to where we have today. And today we no longer even have a circus, but a theater of the absurd.
Everyone understands that the EP must win in any way. There was no other way, the Duma, consisting of one party, was liked by everyone there. The eternal loafers and parasites (SR, LDPR, KPRF) can speak as much as they want, nothing depends on their words for five years, and therefore, in fact, it is not so important what they say there and what their opinion is. In mathematical terms, it can be neglected.
But in front of the whole world, it seems like the semblance of democracy has been observed. You can go on.
And then the sequel followed. Moreover, everything is very interestingly furnished, if we compare it with last year. Last year, they voted in the best traditions of the ancient centuries: on stumps, trash containers, window sills in shopping centers, and so on. There was a riot of democracy.
This year, of course, it would be necessary to surpass. United Russia has already held some mysterious Internet primaries and confidently announced 60% of the votes that the party will receive in September. It remains now to do everything so that no one doubts that everything is "honest", "open" and "transparent".
Therefore, they decided to remove the cameras of online broadcasts from polling stations. This is what Mrs. Pamfilova, the head of our most honest Central Election Commission, ordered.
According to Pamfilova, there is absolutely no need for an average person to watch the most honest and transparent elections on the planet. Unparalleled in the world, so to speak, in terms of honesty.
The fact that Putin just ten years ago, in 2011, ordered the installation of cameras at all polling stations so that no one in the world doubts that everything is in order in Russia with the elections, Pamfilova is not embarrassed by the word “absolutely”. Nothing bothers her at all, but what to take from a person who can't even count?
So, Putin ordered to put cameras and broadcast online all over the world. Let the whole world, if it needs it, look after how beautiful everything is with us.
The world, by the way, appreciated.
And now that's it, Mrs. Pamfilova is closing the shop. There is nothing, you know, to look at how everything is correct with us, you just have to believe. And the CEC will save money. But we will talk about money separately, everything is not entirely clear here, except that Pamfilova's arithmetic is very bad.
Do we judge and count?
Cameras have already been purchased and installed. The wires are stretched. The providers are connected. Where are the savings? Well, if only the precinct workers themselves did not plunder the cameras, because in theory, after the elections, the camera had to be removed, put in a box and kept until the next election. The costs of these actions are, of course, enormous.
Where are the savings? Paying for the Internet? Yes, great savings considering how much traffic in the country costs.
Here, obviously, the point is quite different.
What can cameras show that no one needs to see? Well, first of all, stuffing. Although, as practice has shown, Mrs. Pamfilova does not see the records in which the employees of the polling stations across the country stuff the bundles of “correct” ballots into the ballot boxes. Well, he doesn't see, that's all. And the prosecutor's office does not see. After all, there were hundreds (if not thousands) of appeals on this matter, and here it is interesting - no violations were found.
The insolence with which the stuffing was done under the cameras only says that the ballots were definitely not for Grudinin.
Is it necessary to give such materials into the hands of the opponents of the United Russia? Of course not. It is clear that the question is not how they will vote, but how they will count. And here I have a "second".
Secondly, cameras may not show anything. Empty lots. No, of course, a certain part of our population will probably go to the polling stations. But the fact that it will not be 60, 50 or even 40% is a fact. I predict that the electorate, muzzled by "self-care", will simply not vote in such numbers this year.
I made an express survey among my friends and relatives. About forty people in total, then it became not interesting. Zyuganov will receive 2 (Two) votes, Zhirinovsky 3 (Three). Everything, the rest is simply not interested.
Perhaps the figures for the country as a whole will be different, but it is a fact: the elections will be painted. Therefore, it is necessary to remove the very possibility of making sure that a sufficient number of people will not come to the sites.
Here everything is simple and transparent. There will be no broadcast, they said that every second resident of Russia came - prove that it is not so.
No, in general, Vladimir Vladimirovich was unrealistically confident in himself when he gave such an order to start online broadcasts. And, as practice has shown, the confidence was reasonable. Apparently, "other times have come." And no one needs transparency. This does not mean the electorate, of course.
Well, it means that the decision to paint an "honest and confident" victory for the EP was made at the very top.
But why should this be presented under the guise of another concern for the electorate? About cost savings? Pamfilova does not know how to count, because last year, without savings and with online broadcasting, the elections cost the budget 10,3 billion rubles. This year, Pamfilova announced the costs of 16,6 billion. And if we take everything that is allocated for the Duma circus, then together with the payment of budgets to candidates, anti-coronavirus dances and everything else, the figure (Rossiyskaya Gazeta published) costs will amount to 21 billion and 408 million rubles. Of these, for the elections themselves, yes, 16,6 billion.
And where is the savings? Or if there was a broadcast, the elections would have risen in price by 10 billion, not 6?
I agree that the expression of will, which does not exist, is a little expensive.
And here a number of questions arise. Is the circus worth so much to simulate elections that have no choice? Duma elections, in which no party can win, except for United Russia? Presidential elections that are held on an uncontested basis?
Sorry, but this is a very expensive show out of our pocket. I will translate now.
The 2021 State Duma elections that are not elections are more than 70 tanks T-90MS. Or 10 new Su-35s. This is if expressed in understandable things.
That is, 10 new planes will not even be assembled because it is necessary to pretend that 450 people will have the right to materialize their worst thoughts as bills and receive huge sums of money for this. Half a million rubles a month.
No, there is something to fight for, right? Half a million a month, not counting lobbying bonuses, and you don't have to go to work every day - well, that's a fairy tale!
But why should this fairy tale cost so much if everything has already been decided?
Let me give you an example with governors. They are sometimes elected, then appointed, then again elected. If you take the example of my region, then for the entire time of Russian statehood, the appointed disgraced Minister of Agriculture Gordeev has become the only normal governor. Yes, he went against President Medvedev about joining the WTO and was removed. And Prime Minister Putin put him to govern in Voronezh.
It turned out quite by the way. It was not the local governor with connections in Moscow that greatly influenced the life of the city for the better. Everyone recognized this. And then Gordeev was taken to Moscow as deputy prime minister, and a local was elected in his place. Well, everything goes like a blueprint, as in Moscow.
Attention, the question: what is the difference between an elected and an appointed governor (mayor), if this does not affect efficiency in any way, and the appointed one costs much less?
If the Kremlin has decided to draw the United Russia elections, why spend so much money on decorating this circus? Isn't it easier to play for seats in the Duma with the help of a lottery drum or a random number generator? This will not affect the effectiveness of the Duma either, the same gentlemen have been sitting there for years.
So the point is throwing away billions? Almost a full tank regiment, almost a squadron of fighters - and all for what? For a bunch of people to simply live deliciously for five years, imitating serving the people? It is illogical and costly.
Appoint, choose behind the scenes, hold fights without rules between candidates (just a joke, but I would have looked), but whatever. And no problems, no need to throw in packs of "correct" ballots, no need to force people to make a deal with their conscience, no need to hide polling stations from the whole world, to which no one came.
The same is with the presidential elections. What is the point of arranging this circus around uncontested elections without choice as such? Let's admit that in 146 million Russia there simply cannot be found another person who can compete with Putin. Well, there is none. And why then waste money on all this? Show that allegedly "the people support"? Why all this, on the free Internet you can read enough about the opinion of the people about elections, "crooked squiggles" and other expensive nonsense.
By the way, how historical example: well, the Romanovs were sitting for 300 years, they somehow ruled Russia and did not arrange all these shows. More precisely, as one emperor arranged, gave slack, so the finish came to everything. I'm not exactly a monarchist, but if so, then why all this? Show the world that everything is beautiful and democratic here?
Yes, the world seems to be already in the know. And he formed his opinion. And the attitude too. Especially after the last presidential elections.
Maybe you really shouldn't?
They took the list of applicants, struck out from it the evergreens Zhirinovsky, Zyuganov, Mironov, Yavlinsky. Those who could vote for like Navalny and Grudinin were not allowed in advance. We looked at Suraikin and Titov (Sobchak will definitely not go anymore, I'm sure) and concluded that Putin has no competitors. Well, no - why break a comedy and spend money?
Automatically prolonged for the next term. And no one is offended, and no one is humiliated. And everything is clear to the country, there is no alternative. But there is a tank regiment for the money saved. Or a squadron of new fighters.
And these democracies ... But what difference does it make what they say there? Or what will they think? Will the sanctions decrease from this? No. Will they be canceled? Also no. Was it washed away on nah look there? Also no.
Actually, we have been pushed there for a long time, in the Middle Ages, when there was a tsar-father and a boyar Duma. There is a Duma with the boyars, some will sit there for life. Tsar ... well, if the cost of changing the president into a tsar is a tank division, then why not?
All the same, it will not be more honest and more correct, this is understandable. And it became clear precisely after the 2018 elections, when the video cameras regularly recorded the stuffing, the results were canceled, but the Investigative Committee did not initiate a single case and not a single perpetrator was punished. Everything is clear and understandable.
And since everything is clear and understandable, then give the country better, instead of an indistinct circus called "democratic elections", for the money actually saved, intelligible tanks, planes and ships. And as in the old days, the tank column "CEC - Army of Russia". Or the corvette "People's Choice of Russia".
But Pamfilova will have to be fired, since she cannot count.
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