By: Jože Biščak
I would be lying if I said I was not disappointed. I am. Very. On the other hand, the result of the parliamentary election is understandable and expected. If voters in 2022 elected a man who publicly promised to raise taxes so that people would not spend money on nonsense, then this year, with an incredible number of votes for the Freedom Movement, which narrowly overtook SDS (as I write this, the results of postal and diplomatic‑consular voting are not yet known), they have shown that they care little about the corrupt dealings of the outgoing coalition.
The wiretaps that exposed the mafia‑like conduct of the left are apparently something that “is nothing new” for almost half of the electorate, something that goes hand in hand with politics and is forgiven to left‑wing actors. This is a shocking realisation. It is now completely clear that the left raised taxes so they could redirect the money of net taxpayers into their own pockets and the pockets of their friends. This is not just about individual cases and criminal deviations, but about a corrupt system they established and control. The mainstream media also played its part, expressing outrage at those who recorded and published the corruption of those in power, rather than at the politicians and influencers who were caught on the recordings. Yes, this is the stage we are at, still far from a mature democracy in which such recordings bring down those involved and entire governments. In the Ibiza affair, where Austrian Vice‑Chancellor Heinz‑Christian Strache was caught on tape (offering business contracts with the state in exchange for help), the media were not interested in the people who secretly recorded him, but in the content.
It is worrying that the scissors and cloth for forming the new government are once again in the hands of the left, which has indebted the country to a record level and inflated the budget so much that the economy will soon no longer be able to sustain it. Many entrepreneurs (especially small and medium‑sized ones) warn that with such a spendthrift government, which is tightening the tax vise more and more, they can endure for a year, at most two, after which they will either move their business abroad or close it. And then there will be no one left to fill the state coffers. Pensioners should be especially aware of this. They are the ones who gave Golob the most votes, which means that the Freedom Movement was placed first in the election by older voters. What will happen when entrepreneurs can no longer pay taxes does not need much explanation – there will be no money left for pensions.
In a way, this is understandable, since this “baby boom” generation spent most of its life in socialism. Even today, it is convinced that that system was the best in the world, because the communists took care of everything (after they first took care of themselves). In reality, most lived like Del Boy and Rodney from the Trotter family in the British sitcom Only Fools and Horses – surviving on social assistance, raising their standard of living through reselling and “smuggling,” and living in a 50‑square‑meter social apartment in a huge block. Del Boy and Rodney did not belong to the middle class, nor even to the working class – they were a social case.
The left long tried to convince young people how good socialism is (or was), and it was successful in this indoctrination. That was the case until this year’s election, as the demographic breakdown of voters revealed that young people voted mostly for right‑wing parties (partly because conservative values are “coming into fashion” in the West, partly because a free‑market economy seems more logical to them than a centrally planned one). Because of this, some street parasites have already raised their voices and warned that young people will have to be steered back onto the right path – toward the left.
This shift toward the right (people in their prime working years also mostly voted for the right) is a good sign, provided the left does not sink Slovenia first. That is why I hope that a left‑wing coalition will not be possible to form and that we will soon meet again at the polling stations. That would be the best for Slovenia.