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Why don't the new populist oppositions stick together in Albania?

2024-12-03 19:42:00, Opinione Ylli Pata

Why don't the new populist oppositions stick together in Albania?

Photomontage - Adriatik Lapaj, Arlind Qori and Endri Shabani

In many European countries prominent intellectuals are commemorating the 100th anniversary of a terrifying political manifesto that shook the world in the 20th century.

It is about Main Kampf written by Adolf Hitler in 1925. A political manifesto of terrifying proportions that managed to touch the most sensitive strings of the German people and not only, turning into a dominant ideology, which unfortunately also reflects today.

That political concept laid out by the amateur artist and corporal of the German imperial army is not only worshiped to this day, but on the other hand, the essence of his political message is finding more and more shelter in today's politics, being current and universal.

Hitler, today, is in vogue among almost all extremists in Europe, but also around the world.

It is fashionable not only to nostalgia for the attraction that always brings the figure of a leader who terrorized the world, but more than everyone likes the essence of the philosophy that the firebrand brought in his autobiography, which served as a bombastic manifesto, which surpassed the fame of Manifesto of the Communist Party written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.

Adolf Hitler

Hitler, in his Main Kampf, brings the logic of a simple boy, born in a "Germanist suburb" in Austria, part of a violent family, where he was not given the opportunity to express his talent as an artist , living in poverty.

An anti-system manifesto that attacks not only the establishment, but also the political system itself, namely parliamentary democracy.

A model that we see today in many autobiographies of politicians who are rising one by one to the top of world politics.

JD Vance, the elected vice president in the USA, the second man after Donald Trump, shocked the public with a bestseller not only in the USA, but also in Europe and beyond.

JD Vance's "American Elegy" tells the story of a boy who grew up in the suburbs of an industrial city in the American Midwest, with a troubled family, with divorced parents and an alcoholic and drug-addicted mother who did not take care of her son.

Why don't the new populist oppositions stick together in Albania?

Even JDVance, in his manifesto, talks a lot about the system and its crisis, the elites and their forgetfulness about the ordinary people who cannot make it and enter the dark tunnels of life, which according to him is controlled by the establishment.

But this is not the only example, since the "fashion of the furher" is already a pandemic. That is clearly seen in the rhetoric about the "crisis of democracy".

Even on our televisions, when we talk about world events, we see "analysts" who lift up Putin, the head of China Xi Jinping, Donald Trump or other such characters, bringing us "pragmatism" and "rationality" as models.

Populism and populists have been living their era in the world for years, as part of a failure of the political class to respond to the wishes and needs of the people.

However, the populists have been governing for a long time, they are no longer an "alternative to watch", but a new establishment. We have them on the right, who are more, but also on the left.

In the Balkans, we have the freshest examples of two models that have already proven to be helium balloons. Syriza of Alexis Tsipras in Greece and Vetevendosja of Albin Kurti. It must be said that they had a fairly large appeal from the voters at the beginning, but that they deflated along the way.

Meanwhile, in our country, we see new political models such as right, center or left, who want to play this game, because they see it as "sexy" all over the world. Even Adriatik Lapaj, Arlind Qori, but also Endri Shabani or Agron Shehaj, beat the populist drums in their rhetoric.

Photomontage - Arlind Qori and Endri Shabani

The message of attacking the establishment without a manifesto, citing an "oligarchy" that they believe must be overthrown, is the same. But it doesn't seem to be climbing. But why?

Because Albanians have eaten and drunk populism for 33 years after the fall of communism. Sali Berisha is the father of populism.

His narration, of the honest and talented doctor, family model who lives in Brrakë, in a modest apartment, came as the Albanian "Main Kampfi" in 1990 and stopped all the devils of this country, burning, destroying, destroying and attacking , not only everything that worked, but also the values ??that had been achieved over years and years, even as a result of the dialectic of time.

Today, we see that that "simple cardiologist" is an Albanian "Donald Trump", namely an outstanding owner of the most valuable real estate in the country. Like in the capital, like on the coast, or other fat areas.

It is a financial power that manages to absorb and attract "zakat" and "pizza" from every big business in this country or existing corporation. Of course, he is not the only one, but he is the model of how a populist who comes as anti-system is just a false myth.

After all, as much as he adores the crowds or the people he swears to protect, in the end he doesn't give a damn if they die by the thousands to maintain his power like he did in 1997, or kill unrelated people who protest before the prime minister's office.

Of course, Sali Berisha is not the first populist. His master is Enver Hoxha. Perhaps one of the world's most skillful populists, who managed to turn the fable of the simple man who came from nothing into the philosophies of his power, which he defended with fire and iron.

Sali Berisha

Is Edi Rama a populist? Edi Rama is not a populist, even though he is clearly a demagogue, which is the preface of a populist. But Rama has shown in his governance that, more than populism, he relies on his ideas, which may be wrong at certain times, but he does not surrender to the crowd. Although in certain cases he made a pact with the crowd.

In other words, political Albania after 1990 was not a pact of ideas, as for example was the doctrine of Ibrahim Rugova in Kosovo.

There was no doctrine here, there was a philosophy that spoke to people's stomachs, to extract from them, all the bells and whistles that are generally thrown away in the morning like a poor meal.

We have had a policy of jingles that people, especially those who think, have come to the tip of their noses. Since Albanians are in reality a people who love knowledge, they want to educate their children in the best possible way. And they do not accept to insult their intelligence. In simple words, they give water to the tail of the spoon...