FLASH
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The biggest enemy of the Democrats is not Edi Rama, but the hidden suspicion that Edi Rama may be right.
The Thursday of political shows, but not only, clearly shows that a perfect machine has now been created that includes media analysts, journalists, intellectuals, and their goal is no longer to convince, but to tire. On our screens, "facts" drown each other out with their abundance, until, due to fatigue, any attempt to discern the truth feels politicized.
While democracy demands coherence, autocracy cultivates noise. Democracies die not only from obvious lies, but also from the noise created to "expose" them, making it impossible to tell the difference between truth and noise.
Yesterday, in our democratic mess of facts, for some the OSCE had certified the solutions but at the same time for others it had also certified their manipulation.
Likewise, the noise of some democrats leaving for seats of power was interpreted by many as "disunity or disintegration of the opposition."
While others, probably without any trouble, argued that there is nothing to worry about; the departures are nothing more than a Machiavellian tactic by Rama, to attract ambitious but unimportant people to the opposition. Here we also divide the Democrats into first-rate and second-rate ones!
In this carefully crafted manual of noise, the citizens of this country believe they live in a democracy. Their faith in the system is not naive, but fabricated, in other words, a product of propaganda.
In this sense, propaganda has not only obscured reality; it is rewriting the emotional grammar through which reality is felt.
Even when autocracy succeeds in conditioning reflexes, it no longer needs the whip, since any abuse can be reinterpreted as discipline and hopelessness is more effective than oppression.
This too is the genius of the modern autocracy we live in. Edi Rama no longer needs to stop elections, he simply empties them of expectation.
Even to achieve this, it needs the rhythmic hum of demoralization of the opposition, where we all repeat in one voice:
"You are weak. You are broken. You are finished."
By replacing facts with feelings, criticism with contempt, even the opposition's self-doubt has become indistinguishable from what the subcontractors of the noise machine narrate to the screens every day.
Well, after years of Democrats being told they are chaotic, elitist, or naive, it's humane for some, especially the second-rate, insignificant ones, to believe it might be true.
Self-doubt is repackaged as realism and fatigue as pragmatism, because the human mind cannot live endlessly in tension; it adapts, even to its captivity.
Well, today the crisis of the Democrats seems to me to be more psychological than political. The greatest enemy of the Democrats is not Edi Rama, but the hidden doubt that Edi Rama may be right. This doubt is not organic; it is designed, produced by the noise machinery that never sleeps, whose goal is to make reason feel naive and empathy feel weak.
Democrats are not dead. They are just being asked, every day with persistence and professionalism, to feel like "corpses." And the tragedy is that many Democrats confuse the echo with the verdict.
Every Thursday, while opposition critics perform the funeral for the corpse, others try to extend the morgue lease!
What a good result for Rama's authoritarian rule, which has thus produced consensus without ever winning it!
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