Is there any unionist left who can boo the Prime Minister? Are there any left?

It wasn't long ago, just three days ago, that Federal German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was officially booed at the federal congress of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) he attended.

The gentleman was trying to explain, in his own embellished way, how they would once again trim acquired rights by talking about "reform" and the like—austerity measures that they call reform but which target low-income earners—and, for instance, why they have to "put the squeeze" on pensioners. He was saying, "The population is aging," speaking of the bottlenecks in the social security system supposedly bombed by immigrants, and arguing that the measures that would suffocate the poor were a mathematical necessity.

Anyway...

Even if with a shy expression, he was protested a little by some of the unionists with whistling and booing. But Merz was not very surprised. Perhaps because he thought he had let off some of the people's steam, he might have even been a little pleased, and he continued his speech...

This did not even become an event in the media.

It didn't, because now in Germany, just as in Turkey, no one takes union leaders, delegates, or the like seriously. The protest of those who booed did not remain on the media agenda.

Perhaps that silence is because those "booing unionists" have themselves been silently "booed" by the public deep down for decades.

But let no one compare Turkey and Germany and try to give a "democracy lesson." The situation is dire both there and here.

Although, let's say there is no prime minister or head of state in Turkey who would attend a DİSK congress, that's fine, but there are absolutely no union delegates who would protest one by booing and whistling.

The amount of DİSK or TÜRK-İŞ is equal to the amount of "Reis" (the Chief), that is.

Why, you ask?

WHEN THE REPUBLIC COLLAPSES

That is how these things go.

The republic they tore down but could never quite bury was able to be dismantled thanks to these types of unionists, that is, officials who have accepted servitude to the system and monopolies.

A society that would believe it if AKP members said, "We are building a road to the Moon," was created in this way.

There is a society in plain sight that can—for now—accept the horrific lawlessness staged in the courts.

The situation in European democracies is not very different. We will explain. Let no one give a democracy lesson.

But our concern is not to break hope.

It is this: On one point, everyone—let's say everyone who can think reasonably and takes being a citizen seriously—admits that an Islamist government has succeeded in collapsing a century-old republic. Reactionism, which views the republic as a mere parenthesis, is dominant. In other words, a kind of despotic regime, which we could also call the "Third Abdulhamid era," is being experienced. But it is also clear that the powers that be have failed to achieve one thing: They could not get the overwhelming majority of the public behind them. On the contrary. Resistance continues, secretly or openly.

For example: The women of the republic have never accepted this government in any way. Even though some are belittled as "secularist aunties" by "liberal moderns" and shy Islamists, there is no lack of resistance...

The anger of the people in the lowest income group of society is growing.

There is something else...

Murders committed in the name of law... Let these not cause one to overlook something. The coup that completed September 12 and razed all the gains of the republic, even if it came out of the ballot box, became a judicial coup rising above militarist violence. That is how it appears.

September 12 had brought society under control with military violence. The Islamist party, which came to power alone about a quarter-century ago despite receiving one-third of the votes at the ballot box, organized the oppression through the judiciary.

They opened a new era in reactionary politics.

They contributed to the literature of coups.

And they continue this way.

FOR THIS SCALE CANNOT BEAR THAT MUCH WEIGHT

However, it is not possible for this regime, where the economy has devastated the people, to continue like this in Turkey.

It is clear that this rope will snap from somewhere, and from the most unexpected place at that.

The powers that be know this too. Is that why they couldn't kick out the young lieutenants who rebelled against them? Could it be that they don't know what is going on in the lower ranks?

Older generations, including leftists, have been completely lost. But these new rulers are aware that there is a constant and rapidly growing reaction among the new generations and the millions of pensioners who have been condemned to death.

They are forced to do what they are doing. They are underestimating the new generations and the pensioners whose anger is rejuvenating. They are forced to do that too.

Are there those who think that the new generations might start holding people accountable with the unionists, social democrats, or even the "leftists" who pose as opposition before they do with the Reis and his men?

Everything is possible. It is impossible for this rope not to snap.

Ziya Pasha wrote a very, very long time ago: "For this scale cannot bear that much weight!"

In short, we are inside a building that continues to collapse...

Someone might set out to use their constitutional rights to demand their rights, to express their objection to lawlessness, and of course, to hunger. They might march to the Palace.

The rope will snap somewhere. The load is too heavy. That is what it looks like.