Sme daily editor-in-chief Beata Balogová (source: SME/Jozef Jakubčo)
Peter Pellegrini and Robert Fico have a lot in common. There is much more that unites them than divides them. They share a party history and a comrade mentality.
Both understand the role of the political party in the same way communists did: party membership ensures a career and protection. Both love ceremonies, harvests and tractors.
Both feel comfortable using Communist kitsch that persuaded the working class that they actually ruled themselves. Now they are telling their constituents that everything Fico's government does comes from what they, they people, will them to do.
People wanted Fico to take revenge for the criminal prosecutions of Smer sympathisers; people were fed up with the Special Prosecutor's Office; people called for a new Penal Code; people wanted the censorship of public television. To question these actions is to be against the common sense of the voter and is to be either a liberal detached from the reality of the countryside, or a traitor.
