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Illiteracy of Politics
2025-04-23 13:54:46 / IDE
Once upon a time, politics had a certain solemnity. Even hypocrisy had class. Today, in Albania, all that remains is the show: a shameful spectacle, where the most basic norms have become relics and whoever screams the loudest takes the stage.
The prime minister, with the ease of a pop artist, suggests to children that they Google his nude photos. In another country, this would be enough to spark a national outcry. In Albania? Just another episode of the daily series of banality.
On the other hand, the opposition, in an attempt to be "more popular", stages a "phenomenon" of social networks. At the Korça rally, Ilir Vrenozi, without any complexes, calls the prime minister "stingy", while the DP deputies are making out like at a wedding where the in-laws are drunk before dinner.
If anyone still had illusions that politics is the arena of ideas and dignity, one look at that rally was enough to understand the opposite: the competition is no longer for ideas, but for the most original insult. Our politics has turned into a reality show of the lowest rank.
But this banality is neither spontaneous nor accidental. It is a cold and deliberate plan.
On the one hand, Edi Rama, master of spectacle and distraction, knows well: the more people talk about such photos, jokes and scandals, the less will be said about SPAK, about affairs and corruption. On the other hand, Sali Berisha, master of confrontation and division, knows equally well: a campaign filled with insults and funny figures is the best way to keep militants inflamed with hatred, instead of reflecting on the burning files that weigh on him.
In the end, with different styles but the same cunning, Rama and Berisha have transformed Albanian politics into a racetrack of banality, where whoever offers the most noise and the least responsibility wins.
Because in a tired and misinformed society, the one who makes the most noise rules.
Citizens? One part, tired and disappointed, has learned to live with the fatalistic expression: "what can you do, this is who we are". Another part, younger and more cynical, sees this as entertainment: whoever swears the best, gets the most clicks. While the few who still dream of normal politics, pass this spectacle by like a bad movie: ashamed that they were there to see it.
In this country, where words were once spoken, today swearing is spoken. Where logic was once required, today clickbait is required. And intellectuals — those who in a normal society would be beacons — are today either part of the spectacle, or they look out the window with indifference and cower in fear.
The illiteracy of politics did not happen overnight. It was a long, silent process, accepted with tired smiles by a society that confused banality with popular proximity and outcry with representation.
And so, every day, without realizing it, we descend one floor lower — not only in ethics, but also in dreams.
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