If this people are harbut, who is the chief harbut?

2026-01-11 20:54:00Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA ADRIAN THANO
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“… I honestly don't know how to deal with the extreme arrogance towards nature that we as a people manifest every moment! Yes, frankly, as a people! …. We as a government and as a popular majority, however, will not give up, and we will continue to come up with new measures against this power of darkness in our brains like millets… Throwing a plastic bottle or a plastic bag on the street has only one word that defines it, CRIME“

Edi Rama

Prime Minister of Albania

When a prime minister speaks of the "extreme cruelty" of an entire people, he either does not understand the weight of the word, or is deliberately shifting the blame to the victim.

No people are barren. The people are educated and oriented. Or they are left in chaos by the state.

This does not mean that the state controls every private behavior. Nor does it replace individual conscience. But the state creates the rules of the game, the example, the consequences.

I read a reaction somewhere that said the time for the state to educate is over. This is not true. If any time is over, it is over for the state to talk too much.

Even in the most liberal societies, the state has not withdrawn from civic education, especially from environmental protection. But this education is not done with actions, campaigns, "new measures" when evil has happened. Nor with prison for the people of pennies, but not for the elite of billions.

Education is strategic, it is long-term. It is a serious investment in the educational system, in civic formation. Of course, also in patriotism, which our cosmopolitan prime minister suddenly mentioned in the same speech.

The jewel stadiums, the luxury concrete, the facade squares, or the skyscrapers could wait a bit.

Education also requires municipalities that work every day, not for photos and videos. It requires police who are not only concerned with fines from dawn to dusk. But in particular, it requires the moral example of those who lead.

In short, individual responsibility exists. But it only flourishes where the state does its job.

The main cause of recurring disasters is not a bottle flipped over in the water. It is corruption in public works, roads, canals, and water projects.

When tenders go to friends or clients, don't expect quality work. We're talking about the "crime" of those who throw away plastics. The biggest crime is committed with a signature and stamp in state offices.

So there is no "power of darkness in the brain." There is a failure of governance. If this people are a sham, who has been leading this "sham" for almost a decade and a half?

Even if this were the worst people in the world, it is neither noble, nor right, nor acceptable to speak disparagingly of those you were tasked with protecting and leading. You cannot be the prime minister of the majority and at the same time its moral judge.

Just as you are more buoyant than rivers for achievements, you must also take upon yourself the burden of failures.

Notice how Berisha is blamed by the people for not being able to return to government. Rama is blamed by the people for flooding the country. When power cannot be taken by vote, the people "don't understand". When power fails to govern, the people "are fools".

What poverty and moral misery! What intellectual bankruptcy!

How serious this becomes, when it comes from two people to whom this people have given everything. Unlimited power, wealth, trust, years of governance. In return, they point the finger at him.

A true leader protects the people even if they make mistakes. He doesn't use them as an alibi for his own failures. If he does, he is simply publicly admitting that he is no longer worthy of leading them./ Gazeta DITA


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