It is so quiet under the myoritic dome that even space would envy it. And that can mean two things.

I won't say that my favorite "movie" is politics, but we can't ignore it: if you like, even today, on the surface of life's pearls, the political tail wags the dog of society.

Since the beginning of this year, a strange feeling has increasingly come over me: something is wrong with Romanian politics. Or rather, it happens. At first I couldn't name what was happening. I said to myself, eh, there must be something wrong with me, I'm seeing it wrong. More precisely, I hear. Because

one of the characteristic features of politics is noise.

Politics is cultivated by politicians (in good cases). And the public existence of a politician is justified when he stands up, when he encourages, when he emphasizes, when he highlights, when he protests, when he expresses his shock, when he confirms, when he shouts "abcúg". In short: if it makes noise. Well, the strange feeling that has taken over me more and more: there is no noise in domestic politics. That's what I just said: maybe there's something wrong with my ears. Maybe I'm deaf. I don't hear the noise of political sizzle.

I carried out an experiment in order to find out if my ears were deaf, or if the domestic political prairie was truly gravely silent. I went through the political articles of the last few weeks. Of course, not all. But I tried anyway.

There was, for example, the case of . The churches protested in letters against the promotion of diversity in schools and the mention of sexual affiliation. There were a couple of fiery opinion pieces, a little finger-wagging, and then the matter went away like chickens in the evening. Yes, some argued , but it would be good to bring back Latin as an optional graduation subject in philology classes. I happened to agree with this idea. And not because I still had Latin lessons at school. But because I see the point. Latin is de facto a dead language. However, it is immeasurably important on a functional level. It would be. Today too. But who the hell cares?

Then, recently, there was another case. As a result of the political game around the monetary threshold for abuse of office, the famous "night like thieves" mood of the famous Government Decree No. 13 has arisen Or, no. The press tried to recall the atmosphere when hundreds of thousands of people protested in the streets.

But in vain. The dog didn't protest either.

It is also true that the political elite quickly solved the problem. They simply changed the threshold value. Also, it was announced that…

And that was about the harvest. Not many. What else happened around the public house of Romanian politics? You suddenly don't know whether to laugh or cry because of that.

Last week, for example, the extraordinary event that shook the country was that former USR president Dan Barna was hit while he was riding an electric scooter. Thank God, however, he was not hurt. Well, that was a case! In addition, it turned out (allegedly) that Mr. Barna did not cross the road at a green light. And, horribile dictu, it also turned out that Mr. Barna made a mistake in the first place, even if the light was green, because it is forbidden to roll through a crossing. That's the topic!

What else happened that is really serious? EP representative Dacian Cioloș indicated on Facebook that he is in Madrid, but not with his lover, as a newspaper not named by Mr. Cioloș slandered him, but with his lovely wife. Wow!

What else happened? Klaus Ionopotchivanoc Iohannis, the president of the pseudo-minority state, gave a speech on the occasion of NATO's 74th birthday. I couldn't follow him, he spoke so boringly, but I'm not saying anything new either. Where are the good days when the President hit the PSD in the head with the Hungarian card in a performance

So, there is deafening silence from the direction of Romanian politics.

The situation is really starting to resemble the death line of an EKG finding. And this can mean two things:

  1. Everything is going well in Romania. This is a very positive scenario. Because why can't everything go well? So many things went wrong for so long. The balance has finally been restored. The political elite works for the people, so does the administration, the parties managed to make good compromises, corruption has been defeated, nobody steals, cheats or lies, everyone does their job, which is why they got where they are.
  2. Everything goes as it should in Romania. In other words: in the current - really quite messy - world political situation, the domestic political elite has decided: put on the nice clothes, cut their hair in accordance with the EU, NATO, America, sit in the front row, report when they need to, shut up when they need to, kiss the hand for which the approving message is received. In other words, Romanian politics has become the elite commando of János Bólagotó. And for that, there must be no circus at home. But seriously. The EU funds have arrived, they are arriving, we are distributing them neatly, in moderation, and smartly, as needed. I don't think so. There is nothing. The work is going smoothly. What will happen later, after the end of the private "truce"? We'll see then.

And so that we don't lose interest in life completely, I am happy to report that something else has happened. Which is really important. Liviu Dragnea, ex-PSD gore and ex-prisoner, launched his own YouTube channel. Very exciting. Yeah, he's not talking about massive political revelations there. He prepares extremely healthy and tasty dishes… live! Well, that's something.

János Szántai / Főtér

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