What Youth and Democracy Say This Week: Optimism Against the Heirs of the Communists
Covers and editorials of the leading weeklies of the Left and Right for the working week ending on Friday, November 19, 2021.
Youth: Signs of optimism at the imminent defeat of Janša
STA, 19 November 2021 – In its last editorial, Mladina says that with the announcement of the date of the elections in Slovenia and also in the EU, the countdown began, “an increasingly optimistic countdown to the end of a painful period of authoritarian rule”.
Under the headline 155, the youth says that the majority of politically active people are counting down the 155 days until the elections, and compares the situation in Slovenia with the last period of President Trump’s rule in the USA.
When we turn to Prime Minister Janez Janša, the comment suggests that his recent behavior reflects “a man whose plans fell through and who was rejected everywhere”.
“Janša is defeated and he knows it. We have never seen anything like this in the history of the rotating EU presidency: other EU leaders and representatives have so clearly told the prime minister of the country holding the presidency that they despise him.”
“But his defeat at home is even greater. He failed to break the media and the judiciary, he failed to establish a cult of personality, he failed to overturn the mood of a society that is as clearly opposed to Slovenia as he would like to create.”
“Janša is now counting only on the alleged economic success of the government, that is the only thing he is talking about, that he would try to cover up a completely wrong fight against the epidemic, which is gaining frightening proportions.”
Mladina adds that despite all the government’s interference in various state institutions, certain forms of optimism, power and resistance are spreading through Slovenian society, a certain “mockery of the autocratic ruler and his followers”.
“Because we’re in the middle of an epidemic, it’s hard to laugh – but sentiment is there. Laughter is a sign of freedom, and the beginning of laughter means the end of fear,” the comment concludes.
Democracy: Fighting the heirs of communism
STA, November 18, 2021 – Demokracija magazine claims in a Thursday commentary that it is time to fight the heirs of communist ideology, which it says prepares “media pogroms and exhibition processes” when governments do not lead “red monsters disguised as social or liberal democrats ”.
These people perceive themselves as democratic defenders of freedom, but label all those who disagree with them as authoritarian enemies of democracy. “In their thought processes that have taken shape over the decades, the (bourgeois) right is prone to racism and fascism, while the middle class, the pillar of the free market system and the engine of development, remains their greatest enemy.”
According to the commentator, the time has come to find out whose country Slovenia is. “Do the ‘proud heirs of the League of Communists’ really have the exclusive right to circumvent all the rules … and terrorize others in the streets? Who will stop these guerrilla acts of leftists hiding behind the well-sounding names of NGOs?” “
History shows that red revolutions have always been deadly for good, people who fear God that they have brought only devastation and sorrow, says Democracy.
“Today, a coordinated and systemic attack is carried out differently than a hundred years ago, and the consequences are the same. Our future requires that we fight and remember the legendary times of these generations after real liberation. [the country], not only to become independent. “
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