One of the things I love about Herzegovina, is the healthy disrespect and lack of trust in the authorities, from the cops to government officials. It is a curious mix of religious conservatism and not giving a shit about the people who are supposed to be keeping the country safe and running smoothly. How very unlike North America, where religious people are frequently telling people to "respect the law".
This is partly due to having endured decades of rule by the yugo-commies. You would be hard pressed to find a bigger group of self serving corrupted narcissistic assholes than they were. And then practically overnight, they turned into "democrats" and champions of the "free market", once they saw which way the political winds were blowing. Fucking opportunistic rats. So, having been through that, and not respecting the people in power and their enforcers then, people weren't going to start to automatically to respect whoever is in power now. I find that refreshing, even though people can be stuck in their narrow definition of what the country "should" be. But that is the same as here. Except you don't have nasally blowhard assholes talking about it being the "best country in the world".
This is partly due to having endured decades of rule by the yugo-commies. You would be hard pressed to find a bigger group of self serving corrupted narcissistic assholes than they were. And then practically overnight, they turned into "democrats" and champions of the "free market", once they saw which way the political winds were blowing. Fucking opportunistic rats. So, having been through that, and not respecting the people in power and their enforcers then, people weren't going to start to automatically to respect whoever is in power now. I find that refreshing, even though people can be stuck in their narrow definition of what the country "should" be. But that is the same as here. Except you don't have nasally blowhard assholes talking about it being the "best country in the world".
