FLASH
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Option one: something is wrong with you. Option two: the voters are to blame...
Practical guide to destroying a party from within, without anyone's help. Satirical pamphlet.
Step 1: Diagnosis
You've lost elections. Several. In a row.
Option one: something is wrong with you. Option two: the voters are to blame.
Choose the second. It's much more comfortable. They "don't understand." They're "manipulated." They're "bought." They're never simply uninterested. That would be very common.
Step 2: Gather the "mass"
He calls the militants. They always come. That's the good part. Other citizens don't show up. He chases away any militant who starts demanding explanations and analysis.
The explanation is ready: "They're scared." The other alternative, that they simply don't approach you, is never considered.
Step 3: Political platform
The economy is complicated. Reforms take time. Programs take pages.
A lot of work.
The message is simplified: "Down with them. Long live us. Burn this."
Four words. Zero proposals. Ten seconds of cheering. High efficiency.
Step 4: Fire as an argument
When you don't have a majority, you don't have a platform, and you don't have support, all that remains is the spectacle.
Fire attracts cameras. Fire fills shows. Fire gives the feeling of power.
Fire doesn't bring votes, but this is a technical detail that should never be addressed.
Step 5: The media and the "parallel truth"
The cameras film everything: the empty street, dozens of people, the gasoline bottles.
Rhetorical solution: "The images are manipulated."
The public sees what they see. You see what you want. The gap between these two visions continues to grow every week.
Step 6: International support
Partners send statements with the word "concern".
This is not support. It is the opposite of support.
But if you read it quickly and optimistically, it can seem almost the same. That's why it's read quickly and optimistically.
Step 7: Swerving voters leave quietly
Those who had not yet decided, the people who can be won over, see the flames and think: "Should we hand over the keys to the state to these people?"
They don't say it out loud. They don't post it. They don't debate it. They just, silently, decide somewhere else.
This is the most dangerous noise: the silence of those who leave.
Step 8: Political persecution
Some people end up in legal trouble after protesting.
The explanation is ready and unchanged: "Political persecution."
The discussion closes. The question of what really happened remains unanswered. Time passes.
Step 9: Final balance
Once: a national organization, offices in every city, a household name. Today: a few dozen people in an empty square.
Not a surprise loss. Not a blow from outside.
Slow, steady, self-inflicted decline, step by step, flag by flag, protest by protest.
Step 10: The Foretold End
A party can be destroyed by the enemy. But the enemy has to work hard for this.
If you do it yourself, it saves everyone time.
And in the end, when the offices are closed and the name is forgotten, there won't even be a need for a farewell speech.
No one will be there to hear it.
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