The anathematization of the PSD

As Pope of the PSD, Liviu Dragnea has issued a vicious Papal "Bull" whereby he authorizes anybody to obstruct the government and grants anybody the permission to hurt PM Sorin Grindeanu, using whatever means at hand.

Both Sorin Grindeanu and anybody who helps them are being excommunicated from the PSD, an anathemizing that has already seen Victor Ponta as its victim, who has now sprung out of nowhere to take over the General Secretariat of the Government, in the Victoria palace that the ministers have now left.

Harsh words are being uttered: traitor, tyrant, communist, former political police member, Ghiţă.

It is an algorithm: first you kiss them on the cheek, praise them, elevate the, (and it's mutual, too) then you move on to insults, meaning you have to go from praise to insult.

Political party PR people would like us, the people, to behave the same way.

But the success in this confrontation comes from not understanding what the other one is saying, to keep at it - traitor, tyrant, communist, former member of the political police, Ghiţă - that's what delights the public, because at any rate, it is a delight to witness the sullying of someone who had been previously presented as extremely honorable, especially since both sides are doing it.

The question arises: what is the truth?

These people are angry and maybe they're just talking the way they are because of that, maybe they're not traitors, tyrants, communists, Ghiţă, just honorable people who have been driven mad by anger.

Well, I for one think it's just now that they're telling the truth.

Up until this point they've been accomplices in the selling of illusions to the people and now, disgusted, they are telling us what they know about each other.

Like Grindeanu said: "The real Grindeanu is the one of today and the one of yesterday".

Yes, I do believe that, but I have to extend the principle, so I also believe resigning internal affairs minister Carmen Dan, who said about Grindeanu: "He is no longer operating normally. He is just a doll whose key turns rhythmically and periodically."

Did anybody doubt that Grindeanu was anything but a turnkey doll?!

Carmen Dan also said something that is rather subtle, that, when he was voted as PM on the executive committee of the PSD to be PM, Sorin Grindeanu was a different kind of man, whereas now "he has a problem that deals with the malfunctioning of mechanisms that should help him work normally".

The former internal affairs minister is suggesting that Grindeanu is hypocritical and subservient, (and I do believe that he is like that), but the subtlety lies in something else, in the implicit statement that if he had been functioning normally, then Sorin Grindeanu would have resigned from the Government, like Carmen Dan herself did.

In other words, when angry, this honorable Mrs. Carmen Dan no longer noticed that she views herself as a turnkey doll, but one which functions normally, because she handed in her resignation when her key was turned, just like the other ministers who resigned are turnkey dolls.

Does the image of a dummy government shock you?

No, of course we knew that the ministers of the Grindeanu cabinet were the sock puppets of Liviu Dragnea, who were expected to carry out his orders mechanically; hadn't Grindeanu said that the "party" (in other words, himself) would evaluate the ministers' achievements based one the criteria of the government program?

Did anybody actually take him seriously when he was talking about the criterion of the government program?

In that, the only thing that was certain was t hat Dragnea stated his control over the Governor; we have no certainty that he is really concerned with the carrying out of the government program.

Dragnea's personal governing program is to avoid going to jail.

If he gets away from jail, then he will remain a president of the PSD and with everything he's accumulated so far; if he gets put in jail, he can lose everything he has, not just some governing program.

That's the problem with people who are likely to go to jail nominated for executive positions.

Do you remember Valeriu Zgonea?

Just one year ago, Zgonea, who was an executive president in the PSD, wanted to be the president of the party and he reminded the party that Dragnea can't be made president of the party (that Zgonea wanted), because he had been convicted in court which made him incompatible.

The result was that Dragnea kicked Zgonea out from the position of executive president, kicked him out of the PSD and no matter how much he clung to the position of president of the Chamber of Deputies that he held, (much like Grindeanu now clinging to the position of PM), Dragnea removed him from that position as well.

Do you know what a standard anathema sounds like?

Here it is:

"...bring them lower than any sinner, make them disappear, annihilate them, give them unto death, make them perish!".

Those words have not been spoken, but they are floating around.