The belief about social injustice is deeply rooted in the consciousness of Armenian society. Since the 1995 elections, the main discourse of the opposition has been around corruption within the ruling political elites. This is to a certain extent comprehensible and not unreasonable.

The point is that until 1991 the property was completely state-owned, the apartments were actually built by the state and distributed to the people on rent, not to mention manufacturing enterprises, small shops, workshops, and even more so land. Villagers had only plots of land near their houses and nothing more.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the question of how to organize the economy arose. The myth of communism had vanished, but there was a certain vision of a capitalist world with its private economy and free market, regulated by the father of laissez-faire economics Adam Smith's "invisible hand." In short, everything had to be privatized, and the market would regulate the economy in a normal way on the basis of matching supply and demand.

All state property had to be privatized, which was almost impossible in a fair way. There were clever, active people who were closer to the common property to be distributed, and able to be included in the privatization process and create good relations with those in power. And "good relations" imply risks of corruption. In short, the case of fair distribution of state or, as they said in the USSR, "all-people’s property" was becoming impossible.

All this, as described above, since the 1995 elections, gave the opposition an opportunity to spin the theme of social injustice in the hope of getting electors' votes. The talk about "looting" thus becomes the key leitmotif of political discussions and debates. In such a situation, when the majority of the public does not accept the legitimacy and inviolability of property and at any moment it appears under the threat of political populists, there could be no question of the development of the economy.

And in 2018, something happened that could not happen before - populism, in the form of "revolutionaries" from the street, won because they brought slogans appropriate to the situation: restore justice and "return the loot to the people." There were false promises, demonstrative "handcuffs," and formal trials, but no court case regarding "looting" ever reached its logical conclusion. Moreover, several well-known oligarchs joined the "revolutionary" team and became MPs, and others submitted to the new government, but the talk of "looting" continues among the public, because the support base of the current government are the very people who are waiting for social justice.

Now the society, full of mutual hatred, polarized and divided into hostile parts, where one labels the other as a "robber" and "traitor," is waiting for who will bring the justice and national solidarity that one envisions, and from where the winds of change will blow. People place hope neither with the “currents” nor with the “formers.” Hope is the third force, armed with realistic plans, concepts, and a road map, endowed with the will to curb the existential disaster threatening the nation, and the social demand for its proposal is increasing day by day.