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Sali Berisha's departure from the leadership of the Democratic Party does not bring anything. The DP crisis has much deeper roots or causes. They are entirely cultural.
The state of the opposition in Albania is being widely discussed after the heavy defeat in the elections. Almost every day the main political discussion in the country is the Democratic Party and the opposition. This is right because the opposition is seen as the main tool that society has to change the government or to put pressure on the government. A weak opposition, not an alternative to the government, cannot play this role and for this reason the debate will be focused on the opposition.
The opposition itself has fallen into a trap and as the days pass, it strengthens its position in this trap. It thinks that the elections were a farce, a real massacre where the government stole, bought, used crime and every other perverse form to win.
This reasoning by the opposition has not resonated in society. Everyone is clear that the opposition has other, non-political, reasons for maintaining this stance.
Those who think that the opposition lost deeply demand that it take responsibility, reflect and change, starting with the departure of its leader Sali Berisha, as the DP's statute itself states.
Sali Berisha's departure from the leadership of the Democratic Party does not bring anything. The crisis of the DP has much deeper roots or causes. They are entirely cultural. The DP must enter into a very deep process of meditation and reflection. It must analyze its political anthology, its political sociology and even its political psychology of all these years and today. In short, something very deep is needed, it must go to culture.
Culture is the bed where the behaviors, actions, attitudes, and personality of a person, an organization, or any other entity are conceived and come to life.
There are at least three basic cultures on which, or from which, certain political attitudes and behaviors arise. Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning have described in great detail the cultures on which many parties, groups, and individuals build their political attitudes and behaviors. They sought to understand the extent and causes of the widespread culture of victimization that was spreading throughout the world in the 1960s and 1970s, and for this reason they conducted extensive research. They found that there are three basic cultures from which victimization.
Victimization was widely used by the left, it had been used by the left since its inception. The left talked and talks about the oppressed as victims, about women as victims, about the poor as victims, about homosexuals as victims, etc. The left tries to use this approach to build its behavior and attitudes and attract the attention of society. Another culture was the culture of “honor”. This is also a very widespread culture. In the culture of honor, men are very sensitive to insults or behaviors that want to bypass them. They try to gain attention for their abilities or for their traits in areas that carry risk. They do not do this only through acts of bravery or manliness but also through acts of stubbornness, extreme pride. They do this by also praising acts such as gambling, drinking, pursuing women (they call the perpetrators hunters or women hunters, boasting about being trophy-winners), punching or using weapons, etc.
Campbell and Manning say that it was this kind of culture that once made many people go to duels or stay at night in bars and pubs drinking. This kind of culture of “honor” seeks to attract attention by boasting about bravery, manhood, great achievements, scaring the opponent to death, complete domination of the area, neighborhood, or province, etc. This kind of culture of behavior uses a language that does not accept any failure, any loss, that does not recognize any human value in the opponent, that sees the opponent as an enemy, as a tool, as sold out, as finished, as terrified.
In politics, this behavior has been practiced by old parties and former politicians in Europe or the South of the USA, and it is practiced today in various countries in Africa or South America, etc. Usually, this type of honor has been more associated with the right or wanted to be called the right, but in fact it does not have any political bias.
The third culture is that of dignity, say Bradley and Manning, which sees the individual and man as golden beings endowed with intrinsic and inalienable good. This intrinsic and inalienable good of the human being is given to man by God and does not need to be asserted as people in the culture of "honor" seek to do. In the culture of dignity, there is no cursing, no shouting, no claiming to possess absolute truth, but self-restraint, prudence and respect for everyone are preached. This culture found on the right is a culture that has promoted the rule of law, respect for fundamental freedoms and natural human rights.
The Democratic Party in Albania has a crisis precisely in the fact that it is overwhelmingly defined by the culture of "honor", the culture of the strong, the culture of the one who "terrorizes the opponent", the culture of considering the opponent as something bad, vile, who serves the enemy, the culture of not recognizing the language of moderation, humble behavior, acceptance of truths. The Democratic Party in many cases also adopts the culture of victimization. The DP should not remove Sali Berisha, it should give up the culture of "honor" and the culture of victimization and gradually enter the culture of dignity. This is in fact also the right.
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