By: Dr Stane Granda
The inability of Golob’s coalition to come to terms with losing power is taking on frightening proportions. It goes beyond ordinary reactions, even Trump’s lawsuits about stolen elections. The screaming has become so intense that one wonders whether the announcement of prosecuting corruption, which would be easier to understand, is causing an unprecedented reaction. They do not hide that they want to protect the privileges of Titoism, the right to steal and abuse state property.
The behaviour of the United List, which in the government acted like support staff on a cycling race providing food and water to the leaders, adds further surprise, or confirmation of this suspicion. It has lost the level‑headedness that its president Matjaž Han occasionally showed. In its intellectual poverty, it is no longer satisfied with the help of the president of the republic, Kučan and Janković, nor with the miserable collaboration of RTVS, but has now called upon long‑retired politicians, even those who once demanded that Slovenian Istria be given to Croatia under the slogan “Istria to the Istrians”. Is this merely peak hysteria, or are we on the verge of them marching through our towns with weapons? One hears calls for “cleansing”, reminiscent of Kardelj’s famous dispatch to Kidrič from 25 June 1945, which is a key material document showing who led the post‑war killings and with what terminology.
Current political circumstances are becoming a goldmine for future social‑science research of many kinds. At the core is the sacred conviction of the former parliamentary supporters of Golob, who already in the introductory presentations of future ministers saw an apocalypse for Slovenian democracy. Under Golob, democracy was not truly present, we witnessed a farce. This is not a matter of ideology, nor of left‑wing politics, but a demonstration of the belief that they were chosen by some historical force known only to them to rule. It is a new kind of “chosen” group – a sort of left‑wing nobility whose former position in power supposedly grants them inherent rights in society.
Another surprise is the attitude toward the ethnicity of the president of the National Assembly. A Slovenian nationalist would never go this far. Because he did not join Golob’s coalition, he has become everything except a human being. They openly insinuate about his background, attributing to it supposed inherent tendencies toward certain behaviours. They exploit the condemnable actions of one of his political supporters, accuse him of tax debts, while “forgetting” how many taxes were written off for Janković’s companies. The opposition is the foundation and precondition of democracy. Therefore, its criticism must be at least minimally credible – for its own future and ours. The constant rampaging and shouting in the name of the right to speak, in the style of “I will not be silent”, belongs to the realm of family quarrels and pseudo‑struggles for women’s emancipation; it fits into old bar‑room disputes under heavy intoxication or into farcical misuses of human rights and feminism. Politics is not a circus or a free‑for‑all. Above all, it is not entertainment, and even less the transfer of physical promiscuity into politics, where everything becomes permitted and moral in the name of a political goal.
The abuse of social struggles is the vilest form of political wrongdoing
The so‑called Armani left, which lost the election or power, will bear particular moral and political responsibility for encouraging and spreading hostility toward certain groups in Slovenia. I am shocked by the involvement of the president of the republic! In Slovenian history, antisemitism has never been so present or strong. It was religious, social, and anti-capitalist, but golobism with its trappings imposes a racial dimension. The Israeli‑Palestinian war, despite all its brutality, is not universally representative of all Jewish people. The attitude toward Jews increasingly resembles what was taught in the former Yugoslav army: “Kill the German.” In 1991, the same people showed that under “Germans” they also meant Slovenians.
Golob’s government and its quasi‑left entourage especially exploit the values of the social and political struggles of the working class. Their leftism is so perverted, vile, hostile to freedom and democracy, and contemptuous of the working class, that it turns one’s stomach, and its supporters and defenders cringe. The abuse of social struggles is described as the vilest political crime. Oligarchy, this is your result: “The risk‑of‑poverty rate in Slovenia rose from 12.1% to 14.3% between 2022 and 2026, with the number of people below the threshold reaching nearly 300,000.”