FLASH
Shkruar nga Adrian Thano
This is the moral flood of the country. Instead of seeking a functional state for all, we line up as fans of the government.
The numbers on paper have increased dramatically, as have the budgets. Money poured in, but the infrastructure situation on the ground continues to fail.
Roads that have cost hundreds of millions of euros for a few kilometers are cracked or covered with dirt and stones as soon as winter sets in. Not just roads. Look at yesterday's photos from Durrës. The Veliera, a massive concrete structure, raised on four structural legs, with no clear social or economic function, a 12 million euro investment (?!) After a day of rain, it was a flat surface of water. It resembled the bed of a river.
It is impossible for such expensive works to fail so quickly, as soon as nature puts them to the test. The latest wiretaps revealed from SPAK files make the reason increasingly clear. The problem is no longer nature.
When we talk about floods, it would be disingenuous to exclude the community from responsibility. Illegal construction, blocking of drainage channels, dumping of waste in riverbeds, tolerating violations by the residents themselves. All have directly contributed to this situation.
But these behaviors do not arise in a vacuum. They are the product of a state that treats the law as a commodity. It negotiates it for votes, forgives it in exchange for bribes, and then "legalizes" it with a signature.
We Albanians justify petty corruption “down there” as an inevitable vice, as a popular habit. But it is a reflection of what happens “up there”. Where millions of euros crunch on Chesterfield armchairs while drinking Romanée Conti wine. From there, greed descends and spreads. This greed becomes the knot that then connects all the links of failure.
In this "height" of privileged pathos, one must strike hard. If the neck is not broken, the body will not learn to sit upright.
What is flooding us today, when the old alibi "no funds" has long since fallen? Money is no longer lacking. On the contrary, staggering amounts are being poured into infrastructure, unimaginable just a decade ago. And yet, the floods continue. So, what is really flooding us?
We are overwhelmed by the alliance of power with narrow private interests. This symbiosis has transformed territory into a commodity. Over this alliance lies a collective culture of tolerance for violation.
The loser is always the same, the ordinary citizen, the suburbanite, the farmer. The villas around Teg don't drown. The one who "has no connection" drowns. The one who has no voice, who has no protection.
Yes, it is true that the state today reacts after disasters. There are officials on the ground, emergency funds, promises of compensation. But this is only poor management of the consequence. The cause remains untouched, because systemic corruption makes it impossible to strike at it.
A social and functional state would invest much more in prevention. Much less in facades and propaganda.
Since we are on the subject of propaganda, a word about blind party militancy. Whether left or right, militancy has ceased to be a political conviction. It has become a defense mechanism for public robbery. Today's militant has become a guardian of abuse. He strongly defends theft from the party trenches, forums, cafes, social networks.
This is the most dangerous flood of all.
While governments, SP today, DP yesterday, share billions of euros of public money with their affiliated companies, with oligarchs, concessionaires, strategists and business friends, the militant base is committed not to holding people accountable, but to justifying and relativizing failures.
The tragic irony is that often those who fanatically defend their party are precisely the ones who pay the highest price. Their homes are flooded, their crops are destroyed, they are stuck in crazy traffic, they have accidents on poor roads, on uneven bridges.
Meanwhile, billions have been distributed, contracts have been closed, and invoices have been signed.
This is the scheme. There "up" near the "lonely peak" power and profit are shared, here "down" consequences, anger and division are shared. Ordinary people fight over party color, while those who have benefited from fictitious investments and non-tender tenders are together. Quiet, visible or invisible, but always winning.
Militancy, naive or paid, serves as a smokescreen. Every criticism is labeled "enemy", every question is called a "political attack", every failure is justified by comparison with the other: "What about them before?", "Why don't you talk about the DP?", "Why don't you talk about the SP?" Thus, the theft becomes "collective" in silence. Responsibility is distributed and distributed so much that there ends up being no one to blame.
This is the moral flood of the country. Instead of seeking a functional state for everyone, we line up as fans of the government. We cover up the problem with party slogans, we spread idiocy like "this is how the whole world is". All this, just because the taxman "is ours".
This is that "water" that doesn't just flood homes. It drowns reason, it drowns solidarity. It trivializes the noble idea of public interest.
Stop this ridiculous militancy!/DITA Newspaper
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