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But to be fair, this is not just a Democratic Party phenomenon. This is a pan-Albanian phenomenon, an original discovery of Albanian political anthropology.
They say that the Stone Age didn't end because the stones ran out. It ended because people discovered something better: bronze, iron, civilization. So, ages don't end because of a lack of material, but because of the evolution of the mind.
If we take this rule of history and apply it to Albanian politics, we would expect that the era of Dr. Sali Berisha in the Democratic Party would have ended long ago. Not because the doctors are finished. Nor because the democrats are finished. But because eras, as a rule, have a beginning and an end.
It's just that in Albania, history is a little more stubborn than history itself.
In the books of civilization it is said that after the Stone Age came the Bronze Age. In the Democratic Party, after the age of the doctor came… again the age of the doctor. And this is a political invention that future archaeologists will study with great interest: the age of eternal return.
But to be fair, this is not just a Democratic Party phenomenon. This is a pan-Albanian phenomenon, an original discovery of Albanian political anthropology.
In the Republican Party, for example, history has remained fixed in a single chapter. Since the death of Sabri Godo, the political calendar seems to have entered an uninterrupted cycle: the era of Fatmir Mediu. Thirty years in a row. In any other country this would be called a record. In Albania it is called normality.
In the Party for Human Rights, history is even more economical: there the era is always the era of Vangjel Dule. There are not many chapters, there are not many transitions. A long and quiet era, like a novel that the author does not intend to finish.
In the Freedom Party, of course, we are in the era of Ilir Meta, a dynamic era that has gone through several political forms, but which nevertheless remains the same era. It is a bit like a series that changes the television channel, but not the protagonist.
Even new parties, which are born with revolutionary enthusiasm and promises of new eras, seem to learn the Albanian tradition very quickly: eras are not changed, they are institutionalized.
Thus, Albanian politics has become a bit like a historical museum with living figures. Instead of halls, we have parties, and instead of statues, we have presidents who continue to speak, lead, and promise the future.
The only party that has historically had some ability to change eras has been the Socialist Party. It went from the era of the founders, to the era of transition, to the era of transformations.
But even there, history seems to have stabilized.
Because for nearly twenty years, it also seems to have entered a new chapter in Albanian political history: the Concrete Era.
A solid, stable, urban era, which is being built every day at an admirable pace. In this era, towers are replaced, facades are replaced, sidewalks are replaced, but the era itself remains very stable.
And so Albanian politics has achieved a great philosophical discovery: eras do not need to end. They simply last.
But herein lies the small drama of the Democratic Party.
Because if one day, for one reason or another, the era of the Doctor were to end, no one really knows what would happen next.
It would be a terrifying, almost metaphysical moment.
Democrats could find themselves facing an existential question they have never seriously asked: what is the Democratic Party without the era of the doctor?
And for this very reason, perhaps deep in its soul, the party is in no great hurry for this era to end.
Because sometimes the end of an era is not just a historical change.
It's an identity drama.
Therefore, the era of Dr. Sali Berisha in the Democratic Party is not simply a political period.
She has become a kind of gravity around which her entire story revolves.
And if one day this gravity were to disappear, no one knows whether the Democratic Party would begin a new era… or would remain for a long time searching for itself in the empty space left behind by every era that has lasted too long.
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