This is fascinating to see how organizations, institutions, and people in Europe, such as OSCE PA leadership, can’t see difference between polarization and total incompatibility with a dictatorship.
To my understanding, polarization between pro-democracy/pro-EU groups or parties who all normally would have common ground, usually, happens if leadership succumbed to their personal ambitions and still there is some path back towards dialog, by fostering healthy political culture traditions and practices.
Compare this with total incompatibility between pro-Russian forces (as usually they tend to usurper power and create electoral dictatorship) and everyone else who don’t want lick the Kremlin boots (and are against the mere idea of living under electoral dictatorship or any other dictatorship.
This post is about these claims that there is just some polarization happens here in Georgia country between the “Georgian Dream” electoral dictatorship regime and pro-EU/pro-Democracy parties.
There is simple way to spot the difference. In case of polarization multiple sides of interaction spread hate, distrust, or isolation towards political opponents. In case of incompatibility with electoral dictatorship one political actor builds whole their existence over idea of building an electoral dictatorship, and come with promise to outlaw most prominent political opponent(s) or mere option of being not loyal and obedient.
The “Georgian Dream” regime of electoral dictatorship leaded by a Kremlin operative and billionaire Ivanishvili openly plans to outlaw the same parties EU asks GD to keep dialogue with. EU even asks these parties to keep dialog with GD, if I am correct in understanding some of news about recent OSCE PA officials visit to Tbilisi.
EU speaking about some polarization assumes that there are multiple sides inducing the hate towards each other.
Meanwhile GD electoral dictatorship regime sends leaders of opposition political parties to jail. Peaceful protesters are being jailed for peacefully standing on sidewalks now. And the peaceful protesters have been tortured, beaten, and even poisoned with chemical weapon as BBC discovered!
Use of camite during the 2024–2026 Georgian protests
Would you try to keep political dialog with someone who literally tries to kill you? Poison you? Jail you for peaceful protest? Outlaw any foreign funding for you? And even local one, when accounts of local NGOs and foundations who try to help you are frozen.
Would you keep dialog with someone who falsely declare you “foreign agent” for not being loyal and obedient enough?
It is fascinating to see that level of “verbal blindness”.








