By Frrok Çupi
Which one is the government?...
If you stumble and hurt your knee, what will you say? “Damn it!”. And if the street is paved, you will still say: “Damn government!”… You curse the government as soon as the neighbors make noise; as soon as fireworks wake up your baby; as soon as you count the money saved for holidays; as soon as there’s no water running through the taps… And as soon as you switch on your TV…
The current century’s man of the state society has been built this way and this is how he functions: The government looks at the state (in this case, the government) every time there’s a good thing or a bad thing. Especially in a society not as advanced as ours, where the “state” is seen as a father; a father beats you up, he raises you, he protects you… Psychiatrists call it the “Stockholm’s Syndrome” .
And this is the most normal thing.
But what’s not normal is what’s happening here with us; this state “eclipse”, where the opposition has blocked the government’s view. Then, big deformations take place.
These are the deformations:
First of all, when the government has its back covered, then it knows what to do in secrecy. In secrecy, the government could plot and commit monstrous crimes in a way that nothing is seen. The government doesn’t even hold responsibility. Because the government is not an angel. Friedrich Nietzsche has called the state (meaning, government), a “cold monster”.
Secondly, the opposition is the angel. In fact, it should be an angel, although it’s different in here. Angel, because it represents human right and God’s right in front of the “monster”. Our opposition has abandoned this mission and has gone under the “monster’s” skin. The opposition has blocked the government’s view and it only appears in front of the individual: sometimes it declares that its votes were stolen, sometimes it declares that there’s no more cannabis, sometimes it says that there’s no democracy inside the opposition. It’s the same as if someone commits a crime and you not to be able to uncover it. Or the same as the children’s play, when someone covers the guilty one with his body…
Thirdly, a hermaphrodite being is taking shape, which cannot really be defined. The opposition is neither an opposition, nor a government; the government is concealing itself behind the opposition. The opposition has cabinet ministers and its ministers certify the government’s innocence on the issue of drugs and crime. The government doesn’t say “yes” or “no”, because it doesn’t need to; the opposition has its back. The deputy Prime Minister belongs to the opposition and the Prime Minister has never met her. Since the moment of the Tent, when the opposition made a secret deal with the government, it relieved the government of all responsibility. Since that day, the world believes that Albania has a broad government where the opposition and majority, the left and right participate in it. Whatever happens, the opposition is seen as a government; the government is behind it. The opposition with the government’s face represents the hermaphrodite creature and the individual cannot find its human “face”.
Fourthly, all opposition making will be eradicated, at a time when it’s the opposition’s job to do this. All autocratic governments of the century aim to do this and rule on their own. Meanwhile, the oppositions do not allow tyrants to rule as they please. Once in a while, the opposition holds protests, denounces, makes requests, offers alternatives, it expresses its will and desire… In our case, when the opposition covers the government, then there’s no more opposition.
Opposition appears before the man one thousand times more than the government. On the media- the opposition is not being able to hold true elections; in conversations-the great defeat of the opposition; in opposition-the opposition leaders who have made a secret agreement for which the opposition representatives were not asked; in procedures-manipulation of elections in the opposition; in diplomacy-with this opposition there would not be any stability; with the allies-there’s no conservatism in Albania’s opposition…
Today, the opposition has covered the government so much so that if you stumble on the street, you would instinctively say: “Damn opposition” and not “damn government”, which would be the normal thing to do.
Everywhere there’s talk about the opposition, but in the negative sense, where the government hides.
Note: The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Albanian Free Press’ editorial policy
