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Berisha can continue, will continue to follow the same irrational logic, against time and against history that began in September 2021.
August Andre, a Swedish engineer, had long been obsessed with being the first person to reach the North Pole. He was a salesman and sales expert in the office he worked for and had no great knowledge or skill about traveling to places like the North Pole or the chances that an expedition would succeed at the time. It was just his obsession with being the first to do it. He had convinced the public that he would make the trip easily and that everyone would be convinced when he returned triumphant.
In 1897, Andre, along with two others, set off in the hydrogen balloon, 'Eagle', for the North Pole. After two days, their balloon, shaken and shaken by the winds, fell on the ice. Andre and the other two crew members took what they could, food and other necessary things. They walked and tried to reach land on the giant mass of ice. After six weeks of horror, everything was over. They fed on mussels or squid, but also on a polar bear that they managed to kill with a gun. After almost three months of horror, they died.
This is an event that has been used by psychologists and sociologists to show that there are times when people are so convinced that they can do something that they completely lose their reason and go confidently towards destruction. This happens especially when they have a very high self-esteem, but it can also happen when they want to save face at all costs. It happens that a person enters a path or finds himself in a situation that forces him towards completely unreasonable actions. The person himself knows the bad and shameful end of the path he enters, but he has no way of acting differently.
August Andre's diaries, later discovered, showed that he realized that he was not capable and did not have the right tools to make that journey to the North Pole, but he had convinced public opinion that he had the ability to make this journey very easily.
The famous director Ruben Ostlund has taken this event and treated it in other ways to show this self-destructive side of man when he enters a path pushed by circumstances such as maintaining the profile of the “strong” and the “triumphant”, of the one who is “right”, of the one who has no obstacle to stop him. Also, in many cases, the strong connection that circumstances such as the above have with a state of guilt or crime, pushing you to commit other crimes and then continuing on this path until you “set off for the North Pole”, has been treated.
This is exactly what happened to former Prime Minister Berisha, with his Foltores political movement since September 2021.
The former prime minister had set off like August Andre to the North Pole. He convinced the DP base that he would succeed almost easily. He told the world that he would hold the most powerful protests, that he would shake the power of the Rama government, that he would overthrow it, that he would build a powerful opposition, that he would defeat the socialist government.
It was clear from the beginning that Berisha's movement was irrational, it was against time and against history. It was clear that this movement would have a life of its own until it hit its head against the wall, just as August Andre's path would have a life of its own until his balloon hit the ice at the North Pole. On the face of the earth, irrational things have not and never will give good results. Never on the face of the earth have things against time and against history given and can give good results.
Berisha's move was unreasonable because he had left the leadership of the DP eight years ago, saying that "mon depart est sans retour", my departure is without return. He had said that Basha was so good that Rama would need three lifetimes to be compared to him. And at a certain point he said he would return because Basha is a hostage, he has sold out the opposition. Here, of course, reason has no power to provide explanations. The move was against time and against history because someone who resigned eight years ago after losing the elections as prime minister with a very deep result (he also lost Shkodra and won only in Kukës) cannot return and say that only I can defeat Prime Minister Rama.
Also, someone who was the leader of the opposition and became president, someone who fell into opposition in 1997 and then became prime minister in 2005, fell back into opposition (even resigned in 2013) cannot become prime minister again in 2025. History does not know these things, time has its own rhythm and logic. Time is not cyclical, it is not something that has no end, it is not something in which we spin endlessly like on a carousel and can return without stopping to where we were. No, time is linear, there is a beginning and an end for everyone, for careers, for politics, for ambitions, for life.
To cut a long story short, the result of May 11 was known and was the logical conclusion of an irrational path. The similarity with what happened to August Andre is profound. Now things can never be the same again. Berisha can continue, will continue to follow the same irrational logic, against time and against history that began in September 2021. It is within his right to do so, as are his supporters. It is certain that in the next elections, support will be smaller and the clash against the wall will be harsher. Even now it may be too late, the time for deep reflection for the DP may have expired so that it can become an alternative again. However, it does have at least a theoretical possibility. And this possibility has nothing to do with Berisha's resignation. Berisha's resignation now is a waste.
Berisha must do something (also against history and illogical) unheard of. He must lead a movement against Foltore, against his philosophy, and create and support a leadership that is not populist but popular, to defend a narrative that is not revolutionary with internal and external enemies but civic and rational, to foster a right-wing spirit where modesty and prudence are the basic traits and not a spirit of arrogance and boasting. This is impossible, but if he does it, it would make Berisha a rare politician. This, in principle, is in his own hands, but he must overcome himself. For now and perhaps for the times to come, we are simply at what happened to August Andre.
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