The economy is not discussed in this country. Because if you talk about the economy, things change.
Questions come.
- Where do all these taxes go?
- Why doesn't inflation end?
- Who got richer? Who became poorer?
- Why is it that a group of people live in luxury while millions cannot make ends meet?
If they talk about the economy, they must be held accountable.
Not only the government but also the opposition is very relaxed. There are rallies. There is enthusiasm. There is applause. There are slogans. But no solutions. No plan. No economic program.
People cannot make a living, but the opposition is still worried about Ekrem. As if the country's agenda is not livelihood but the fate of one person. But the people's problem is not the name; it is life.
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This order silences the poor and protects the rich. It puts the bill of the crisis on the backs of the people. It normalizes privilege. It puts public funds at the disposal of a group. Then it creates another agenda to hide it. Thus, the economy is not discussed. Poverty is not talked about. Debt is not talked about. People stop talking.
This is a system that prevents people from demanding their rights and asking for accountability. Because a person who asks for his rights cannot be ruled. A person who asks cannot be silenced.
People are learning to shut up when they can't get along. When so many people can't get along “everything is fine” they have the audacity to say. Worse still, they still have the ability to convince an audience.
This is where the real issue lies: The normalization of poverty is as dangerous as poverty itself.
And it is now necessary to say it clearly:
People in this country are tired not only of poverty but also of injustice.
He is tired of working hard and still not making ends meet.
He is tired of seeing not the compassion of the state, but its collection.
He is tired of watching the lives of millions shrink while the prosperity of a handful grows.
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The greatest achievement of this system is not to fix the economy; it is to reduce poverty. “normal”, injustice “inevitable” show.
But there is a limit to everything.
Because societies stand not with money, but with a sense of justice. When justice is gone, only silence remains.
And when silence grows, one day the door of reckoning will surely open.