Long Live the Romanian Populist Party!

We are not a non-governable country, as the West tends to believe from time to time. We can be governed very well, hardly or softly, or both ways at a time, depending on the circumstances. We have never been governed in any other way, not even during the communist period, when we would have expected at least the hard side to come out. It would be rather strange for one to be angelic or devilish in Romania, the country in which funerals bring laughter and the inns are full of tears, where the laws of street are still powerful. This is why I don’t believe it is right to blame the communist system for what we are today. There were four million communists that weren’t communists, there used to be a party that looked like an Oriental satrapy, there used to be political police with as many bribers and idiots as any present Romanian institution. One cannot impose rules, criteria and laws to people undistinguished by the rootless world in the countryside and the un-rooted world in the cities. Nepotism, bribery, favors, reciprocity will always cause so many exceptions that rules will remain exterior and empty, like communism (what communism?).

For us, the political doctrines didn’t even establish the right and the left. We are yet like a child who cannot choose the right hand. All the doctrine nuclei have been destroyed from the very beginning and covered in corruption and incompetence slops. PNT-CD (the National Peasants’ Christian-Democrat Party), the Christian-Democrat doctrine, totally dissolved. What did Ciorbea and Vasile Radu have in common with the Christian Democracy? Was it the demagogy? Was it the big rings on their fingers? Was it the collaboration with the Security? On the other hand, social-democracy, another great European doctrine, produced the smallest Romanian party (the one led by Cunescu) at first, which resulted in the greatest Romanian party ever: the PSD (the Social-Democrat Party) of Iliescu and Nastase. However, is there anyone able to say that PSD ever had anything to do with the social-democratic doctrine other than the name? Like the former PCR (the Romanian Communist Party), PSD wasn’t a party but a gutter of opportunists led by three or four bustards that wanted to accumulate as much power and money as possible.

Nowadays, the liberal party, the only one that was decent and European in Romania for a while, has started to dissolve from its own mistakes due to not being capable of abiding the liberal doctrine. What doctrine? Patriciu is on one side, Basescu is on the other. All the members of the party go with one of these two. We will soon be in the situation in which the richest 300 people in Romania will fund parties in the same way they funded newspapers or TV stations. Because nothing’s priceless for us. At least, at that moment, we will know the parties by the names of their owners. Left, right, liberalism, social-democracy? What are these?

Actually, Romania had only one great party during all this time: the populist party, the party of the undifferentiated masses. There was only one doctrine: personal goals. Only one great leader: the czar with a whip in one hand and the sugar in the other. Just look at our present goals, at the parties that prosper at the actual leaders.