The Minister has heated up the potato — time to pass it on to the social partners (the Chamber of Doctors with obligatory membership and the labor unions ).
These social godfathers — supposedly independent, yet in reality personally and financially dependent on the governing parties — will, in the name of their few real and many fictitious supporters and patrons, negotiate a “reasonable” and “balanced” solution. One that essentially aligns with the wishes of the government — and with which everyone must be satisfied, because anything else would be utterly “antisocial.”
Soon the government will announce: So be it — may the holy consensus of the “social partners” show us the way. Let us boldly move forward.
The affected patrons — deeply moved by this power-political sleight of hand — will dab away tears of emotion, eagerly embrace the consensus, and everything will run smoothly.
Surely. And if not, there’s always the EU. Everything coming from the EU is, as we know, passionately embraced — because rejecting it would be totally “anti-European.”
Transparency and accountability? Nowhere to be found.
Thus democratic disillusionment is created, and the system is undermined by itself.
But instead of practicing self-criticism and initiating reform, those involved ignite a state-orchestrated paranoia — that the opposition is allegedly targeting “their” democracy.
Pathetic.
