Breaking the taboos when basic guidelines are violated brutally - Defeat on an invisible yet crucial round, distorted and shifted concepts of political morality guidelines

First of all, I have a confession to make, I rarely do that, not the confession part, I have no issue to admit my shortcoming or confess my mistakes

But the other part, I rarely hesitate, when I decide to express my mind, I get anxious to accomplish it, but this one certain article I write, I often postponed writing it, therefore in both my subconscious and conscious mind, I did hesitate, until I finally decided to go forward, because starting August 2021, I experienced a series of attitudes, behaviors and worst of all people who justified such mentality, stances and behavior that all surprised me, and even shocked me

What made it worse is that such political conducts was not performed by a single political group, nor a single environment, experienced people from the Armenian diaspora who had rich experience in the national field, seemed to behave simultaneously in a unified similar almost identical systematic tactics and strategy

Furthermore, inside the republic, the atmosphere was similar

Lack of tolerance, insisting to use the demagogue language, refusing to hear the other side, futile counter-productive methods of substituting discussion with a flow of exchanging accusations, where self-justification and self-defense against accusations is rarely and almost never justifying his own position but with counter accusation

This lack of tolerance which seems inspired from the higher level s of leadership has driven the common simple citizens of the republic of Armenia into an atmosphere of extremism, refuse to communicate with the other side unless to attempt to enforce his own political conviction

Tension at its peak, I tried Since January 2022 to be a unique case, to open a breach in this thick wall of internal political spectrum stalemate, I made call after call for dialogue, when anyone agreed to debate, they though this is an act of challenge, a sort of mental aggression, a plan and a conspiracy by me to target, corner, trap, defeat

Assurance after assurance I tried to make see that I am sincere and seek no political victory, I want to get involved, discover other people’s perspective, even mingle, for me, political difference

Difference, I stress and emphasize on this term, I hate to use the word political disagreement, opposing sides, in my comprehension and mind, there are no opposite Armenian sides, there are only different Armenian sides, and political difference for me never stands in the way of forming friendship and social connection with anyone, it has no effect, positive or negative, well, it might have a positive effect, because someone being on different ideas provokes my curiosity

Whereas I failed to reach out, communicate, make a connection with the common decent people of Armenia to exchange ideas and engage in constructive dialog and discussion was natural

But something else is not, it is shocking, it is frustrating, it is provocative, disappointing, and its results are not as innocent as the case mentioned above, it has ramifications, consequences, damage, it is destructive, damaging, and also extremely devastating

When people who enjoy political experience, they should have kept in mind that once getting involved in political adventure, that is a mission, a responsibility, it is a serious mission, one that effect the community, the national family, and as such, his attitudes, actions, behavior, reactions reflect the spirit of political guidelines, political guidelines are first of all of are an extremely vital tool, and every time a political person or a leader behaves in a way, he is a teacher, a mentor, his actions formulate an impression and through these impressions, guidelines are formulated,  and therefore an extra care must be dedicated so that the surroundings do not formulate a distorted series of guidelines,

Professionalism, professionalism emerges from character, a character of sincerity, transparency, morality, an attitude of being responsible, from these characteristics, wisdom is gained, and with wisdom and flexibility, intelligence, creative ideas

Sadly, this is not the kind of impression I got, and I tried several political schools, it was replaced by a strange set of gestures, ones in which there was a poor misconception,

Requests for dialog, communication, opening channels of communication, were met by attitudes which expressed an illusion that rejecting communication is an act that shows a tough character, a bold out proud strong one, an arrogant answer which tries to give the flavor of restrained rudeness an act of self-confident leadership, mental moral barriers between Armenians, with the illusion that by this gestures they “penalize you, punish you, deprive you” whereas the only thing that gets deprived is the nation

Specially that we live in tough times, the nation and republic are facing such catastrophes, and we are in desperate need of national harmony, dialog, that might provide the minimum national unity

The more dangerous aspect of this is that mid-level political gentlemen, patriots, good decent Armenians, justify this pattern that means that we have also lost the political compass of fundamental guidelines

Another aspect is that guidelines, in general, are what they are, guidelines, it is not a dogma, it is an extremely useful tool, but not a sacred one, and when the fatherland highest interests collide and conflict with any guidelines, the guidelines must bow and make way, yield, they are means, not goals,

We have to have a political educational strategy, and this one must be transparent, public and open to discussion, I will make an extreme discussion, I think that the state must supervise such moral national teachings, and this my last point is also open to discussion

If the guidelines we adopted and walked upon them have been the correct ones, or at least if they were adopted in a more patriotic flexible moderate aware manner, our nation would have most probably triumphed

The proof that we have received more than a century of defeat that either we did not teach our generations an aware set of guidelines, or implemented them incorrectly or most probably both

The proof that we allowed unbelievably silly crucial political and strategically mistakes for the last above a dozen decades indicates that our political education and guidelines need to be publicly discussed and revised

Those who refused to dialog with me or others - independent free find thinkers like me with our own version of ideas, which do not follow strictly a certain political idea, but rather a mixture, an open sincere dialog, they do not penalize us, they are striking a nail in the wall of national harmony, to national spirit of consensus, and therefore national unity – by trying to exclude independent elements who are trying to contribute to the national cause

Those who break communication, justifying that now we are on dispute and disagreement, miss the entire idea, that communication is the ideal tool not on the times of agreement, in times of agreement communication rises to a higher level of coordination, in times of disagreement and dispute, we resort to communication, to try to keep the disagreements contained, and focus on points we agree upon

Alas, some pushed a disapproval and extended the points of disagreement by creating more disagreeemnts

May the Lord Safeguard the Great Republic of Armenia and the Blessed nation of Armenians

Bedros Manoukian

A Democratic Patriotic National Socialist