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Today it is a shame to be a socialist!

Politiko 2026-10-16 17:48:22

By Irena Beqiraj

As I watch the videos of young people being dragged away, I feel ashamed of the criminal left of this country.
My stomach churns every time I see old socialists, some old in politics and others on the threshold of the gates of St. Peter's, who, in order to preserve personal privileges, have lost their political consciousness.
The character of a politician is not measured only by the victories they achieve, but by the decisions they make when the price for doing what is right is precisely the loss of power. At such moments, the loss of power can become the highest form of political consciousness.
Today, your political loyalty conflicts with the responsibility you have. Obedience to the socialist autocrat forces you to sacrifice personal integrity, that integrity that, perhaps naively, I believed that some of you still had.
Politics is not a profession, it is a mission. Politics should be engaged in by those who want to leave their mark on history, not by those who seek to remain in power at all costs, even by violence against children.
History does not honor those who stayed in power the longest. It honors those who had the courage to defend the country when others, out of fear, chose silence.
A politician who chooses the right side may lose his career, but he gains something much more lasting: the respect of history.
Power, after all, is temporary. Hell, we are all mortal! It is the difficult choices that determine the value of a politician and the mark he leaves on public life.
Many are those who tell me that you have no legs, that you have skeletons in the closet, that power has dehumanized you. But, even if that is the case, a terrible end is better than a political life without honor. Better to lose everything than to remain hostage to a political sect that, in my opinion, represents one of the most dangerous deformations of Albanian public life since the founding of the state in 1912.
Karma is not a bitch. On the contrary, it is a divine reckoning. Don't forget this!
I have tried my best to understand your inability to act. But I can never accept any of you's excuse that it is the young people who are setting Albania on fire.
You are setting Albania on fire!
For 136 days, people protested peacefully. What did you do during all this time?
You continued to pass laws and maintain mechanisms that allow the transfer of public money without competition and without supervision to Roni and his friends. Not only that, but you mocked the people who were protesting.
And, as the icing on the cake, you offered your loyal presence, on a set schedule, to admire the new hairstyle of Zeqine and a host of other worthless characters who serve power.
You are setting Albania on fire, because with your "dolce vitta" economic model, with casinos, hotels, wine, drugs and prostitution, you are building a country where young people lose hope for the future.
You are the one who turned Albania into the beloved homeland of every clown and into an enemy land for every Albanian who refuses to become a villain.
And you are the one who keeps Rama's political corpse in power. Yes, you. Because you never became politicians. You remained transactional, prisoners of the formula "give me, I'll give you". You remained small. You remained obedient soldiers, where you should have been representatives of the citizens.
You turned political conviction into personal conviction, the party into a shelter of privileges and civic representation into a bargaining chip. Instead of exercising power to protect the public interest, you chose to protect power even when it conflicts with your moral responsibility.
And this is your tragedy: you know that you are no longer serving a political ideal, but the survival of a power that has replaced the ideal with interest, obedience with fear, and responsibility with personal account.
Good iron is never used for nails. Therefore, today, being called a socialist is a shame. Not simply because of Rama, but because of you: because you, who were supposed to defend the dignity of the left, turned politics from a mission into a business, the party from an ideal into an instrument of privileges, and political representation from a responsibility into a bargain.