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The closing circle, the end of the illusion and the destined fate of a caste
2026-03-10 19:33:21 / IDE
In the annals of political history, great transitions never happen in silence; they are always accompanied by a deafening noise, a cacophony of clashing interests as an old system refuses to accept its natural end.
Today, Albania is experiencing its own version of "Mani Pulite", a process where the vicious circle of impunity is being closed with a mathematical calculation that leaves no room for interpretation: the inevitable confrontation with the force of the law.
When Milanese prosecutors in the 1990s began to unravel systemic corruption schemes, the Italian political class reacted with an unnatural solidarity, where those who until yesterday were mortal enemies became collaborators in the defense, reminding us of the famous saying of prosecutor Antonio Di Pietro that "corruption is not a system error, it is the system itself when power loses moral legitimacy."
This scene is being repeated identically in our political environment, where ideological differences have melted in the face of collective fear. In television studios and newspaper pages, we see a fake noise that aims not to inform, but to protect the defenseless through the creation of an artificial fog.
A good part of the media, instead of serving as guardians of the public interest, has become a cordon sanitaire for their "bosses", attempting to relativize guilt through forced comparisons.
This kind of language tends to convince the public that "if everyone is guilty, no one should be punished," just as George Orwell once warned that "political language is designed to make lies sound true and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to the smell of clean air."
But this strategy of fog, no matter how loud it is, cannot hide the fact that reality is knocking at the gates of the sand-bricked citadels of power. The effort to live in illusion, hoping for a possible amnesty or another bargain, is turning into a boomerang. The challenges that await these actors are not simply legal, but existential, because when a political class reaches the point where it can no longer produce value or arguments, it loses any moral right to lead. This situation confirms the wise words of Abraham Lincoln that "you can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
The noise we hear today is not the voice of force, but the echo of the panic of those who see their defenses falling one by one. It is the last effort of an elite that is realizing that the time of "untouchability" has expired. Justice, although often slow and with obstacles, is gaining ground over systemic corruption, proving that the force of facts is always greater than paid rhetoric.
This process is not simply a judicial procedure; it is a social catharsis that is decontaminating our public life from false illusions.
In the end, this reality will end up in court and truth will triumph over propaganda, because as Martin Luther King Jr. said, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." When the circle closes, there is no way out through "noise" or commissioned "analysis." The political class that treated the state as private property is facing the fate it itself prescribed through its actions over the years.
Perhaps the best closing for this era comes from Victor Hugo's thought: "There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come." And the time of accountability in Albania seems to be no longer a wish, but an inevitable destination. When the last lights of illusion go out, what will remain is only the cold weight of justice, which recognizes neither "bosses" nor "servants," but only the guilty and the innocent.
History is not simply repeating itself as a farce; it is correcting itself, reminding us that no one is above the law, and no noise can drown out the heavy silence of a deserved verdict.
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