In this constellation, the political battle takes on an entirely new dimension: the struggle against VMRO-DPMNE is no longer a matter of simple political choice or party rivalry – it represents a supreme civic responsibility and a historical duty.
Written by: Prof. Dr. Ana Chupeska
The political system today finds itself in a state of dangerous entropy — so much so that it cannot even be called a system. Engineered perceptions that “everyone is the same” and that “they have made a deal among themselves” further generate and feed apathy. Apathy, consequently, exclusively benefits those who currently occupy power.
But we must now demystify a crucial truth: this apathy is not a natural social state! It is the result of a classic psychological operation (psy-ops) conducted by the government against its own people, and further aided by third autocratic cells. It is obvious that they persistently, and desperately, I would say, want to maintain this apathy among our population at all costs.
Autocracy here acts like a predator flying on “Pegasus”; which not only monitors you but also controls you. With that, it systematically sucks out your capacity for reason. Because the belief that everything is predetermined from the outset represents the most effective mechanism for the complete pacification of any defiance, rebellion, or resistance. Or, as long as the citizen is convinced that politics is a closed game in which their vote carries no weight, they voluntarily demobilize themselves.
But the catch lies in the fact that this apathetic demobilization takes place under conditions of a contaminated and polarized pseudo-public sphere.
Although seemingly contradictory, polarization is precisely what feedback-stimulates this effect of permanent apathy and the effect of equalizing political actors. Thus, under such conditions of evident democratic erosion, ruling structures very easily construct a hegemonic discourse through the stimulation of polarizing populism and institutional dominance.
And, what is to be done?!
First, the answer to this systemic paralysis cannot be conventional. On the contrary, an AUGMENTATION OF POLITICS THROUGH RESISTANCE is needed—not just as a technological or communication concept, but as an essential, structural expansion of democratic capacity through an essential epistemological lesson: the application of transformative repolarization. This concept implies a disruption of the current reality. Moreover, this is not just a theoretical abstraction, but a proven political practice — it was the key strategy of Péter Magyar and the TISA party in Hungary, who through this model managed to shake up the political field there. In fact, his chief communication strategist recently published a scientific paper precisely on this topic, proving its epistemological and practical superiority. Following that principle, the old, sterile rift on the “left versus right” axis must be redefined into a new, more fundamental rift: corruption versus renewal, fear versus hope, and a captured state versus sovereign citizens.
Second, politics by definition cannot exist without conflict, but the question is how will we redefine that agonistic space?!
Any opposition activity, for a start, must not fall into the trap of reciprocal polarization, blindly replicating the style of the government, because by doing so it only feeds the autocratic spin that the opposition is an embittered and inferior element.
Do we understand each other?
In other words, augmentative politics dictates a sovereign shifting of the main political conflict.
Third, the core of this political augmentation also lies in the radical deconstruction of the false conflict among the people. Namely, any attempt to antagonize citizens who voted for the ruling structures must be categorically rejected. They are not the existential enemy; they are direct victims of the same social pathologies that are tearing the entire society apart. This hegemonic system survives precisely by generating emotional divisions and horizontal wars among the citizens themselves, forcing the victims to despise each other. But the truth is that every citizen, regardless of their ballot, equally bleeds from devalued wages, the inflationary shock, collapsed public services, omnipresent party pressure, and existential uncertainty about the future.
And here lies the crucial democratic paradox that must be exposed most urgently.
Let me explain: to be a sovereign citizen, you do not have to be part of the SDSM at all, nor do you have to formally identify as a party sympathizer. Vast masses of people have a legitimate resistance to classic party labeling. But one thing is axiomatically true: you are certainly not a sovereign citizen if you are lied to, instrumentalized, and reduced to mere statistical decor in a kleptocratic performance! Because sovereignty is absolutely incompatible with manipulation. And the autocratic-kleptocratic network virtually sells you an illusion of national pride, while robbing you in the background.
Precisely because of this, in this constellation, the political battle takes on an entirely new dimension: the struggle against VMRO-DPMNE is no longer a matter of simple political choice or party rivalry – it represents a supreme civic responsibility and a historical duty.
As a constitutionalist by conviction, I believe that when the constitutional democratic order is de facto suspended by a spiderweb network that has captured the levers of power and establishes institutional hegemony, augmentative resistance becomes the only legitimate response against such radical injustice.
For that reason, the emancipatory message to the citizens, placed on any platform, or at any event, must imply a substantial augmentation and a clear targeting of autocracy! It must not be reduced to a pathetic struggle for the throne; to a greedy and, above all, tendentious fragmentation; to a competitive opposition of the opposition. The message from Limak, therefore, should have been crystal clear: the struggle is directly and unequivocally against VMRO-DPMNE; join the broad social front for truth and justice. But that did not happen.
At the same time, we must be clear: it is absurd to expect justice from domestic institutions that are completely hijacked and turned into accomplices of the government.
The choice before us is brutally binary: either you are part of this democratic anti-authoritarian front, or you are, to put it most simply – a pitiful sight. And I state this without a shred of cynicism. Why? Because absolutely everyone is contaminated by this social pathology. Even those actors who today deliberately and tendentiously fragment the scene are, in fact, hostages of that very same system. That’s why I say, they are a pitiful sight…
Augmentative politics, finally, requires a radical step toward the rule of law; more precisely, the immediate involvement of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office is necessary. Namely, it must enter here and take over independent investigations into financial and systemic crime.
That is, after all, why the European Union is needed.
To stop the stealing!
Do we understand each other?!
When the domestic order is turned into a tool for protecting the “network,” international legal intervention through European mechanisms remains the only guarantor for clearing up corruption and restoring justice.
And here lies the true power of transformative repolarization. It articulates a new conflict — not a horizontal war among citizens, but a vertical showdown of the sovereign demos against corruption, against fear, and against occupied institutions, especially when the government ruthlessly “eats” the institutions that are supposed to oppose corruption.