In his perverse public appearances, Edi Rama, sometimes using the stick and sometimes the carrot, is showing that he is light years away from understanding what is happening. Dumbfounded by his long rule, he is reading recent events as a dissatisfaction with his government and not as a revolt against the mafia model that he has imposed on the citizens. The language he uses towards students, sometimes as a threatening gangster and sometimes as former communist leaders who self-criticize and promise easing measures, clearly proves that the regime he has established has come to an end.
Edi Rama has never been weaker, older and more afraid than in these days of his end of power. He tries to make it sound like he and his country cannot be played with, but in 14 days he is trying to do what he did not do in 14 years. To lower the price of basic items in the basket, to remove the turnover tax from the price of fuel, to increase the alms for students and families in need, to tax the rich more, etc. Typical of leaders who, when they see that their pants have fallen off their legs, maneuver in any way, in the hope that they can throw water on the flames of the revolt. But as always, they remember when it is too late for them.
Citizens rose up when high food prices, insane cost of living, lack of medicines, administrative brutality, corruption in services and inhumane treatment of their most basic needs, had exceeded the opportunity to protest. Because the deaf ear to them was simultaneously accompanied by the criminal arrogance of the exponents of the renaissance, thus leaving revolt as the only way out. The wiretapping and investigations of only the tip of the iceberg, confirmed the deep contrast between the dome of power and the citizens. Hundreds of millions of euros that were shared between ministers and bandits day in and day out. Unbridled luxury, from villas on the coast, private jets, bank accounts abroad, hotels and resorts registered with fake names... And the bigger the scandals of Edi Rama, the greater the insensitivity towards those who were robbed without mercy.
The Renaissance government took Albanian citizens for granted. Edi Rama was convinced that no matter how he treated them, the flocks of sheep would continue to vote for him with their heads down. Ministers in prison, he increased his mandates. Mayors in prison, he conquered all the municipalities of the country. Thefts came out in the open, he received more votes. And along with him, those who today are shouting about two burned kiosks were also enthusiastic: This Edi Rama is great, Albanians vote for him! They were enthusiastic about Rama's "ability" to destroy the opposition, with his "power" to govern alone and with his "success" in taking two thirds of the parliament in the fourth mandate. Always thinking that Albanians are sheep that fall to their knees before the strongest.
Both Rama and those around him forgot the golden rule that the only guarantee for a balanced society and economy is not the power of one person, but its control and balancing. This is the rule that applies in European democracies, where the Machiavellianism and vileness of the autocrat are not exalted but the guarantors of stability are kept alive: the opposition, independent media, unions, civil society, justice. Leaving all these guarantees in the hands of one man, with the conviction that the people will continue to eat grass, is a blunder that societies pay dearly for.
If Rama, moldy in his brain and soul from the rot of power, has no way of understanding such a thing, those who have the will and concern to change the criminal chapter of the Renaissance should know that what is happening is not a protest about the price of oil, but a revolt of those who took them for granted as the subjugated people. At the point when you have nothing to lose, it is not the autocrat's charity that turns you back, but his collapse along with the model he has built.
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No to violence, yes to organization!
October 28, 15:10
Economic reforms are not a solution because they do not touch the essence of the Rilinda system at all. They do not touch the theft, greed, robbery, violence and humiliation that have been inflicted on them and their parents for 15 years. They cannot continue to pay for Bela and Lali's villas, for Gysi's misdeeds and the autocrat's charters and thank them for lowering the price of oil. Edi Rama, like the oddballs of the communist system once, thinks that with the carrot and stick method he can turn history back. That with accusations of foreign agents and threats to close borders he will scare those who have a cause for human dignity. He can neither scare nor lie to anyone anymore. He can now only serve as a living sign that the change will be complete if, no matter how late, he is legally forced to return to Albanians, even symbolically, what he has unjustly taken from them. ©lapsi.al
