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The Republic of Hypocrisy: Government, Opposition, and Media on a Common Stage
2025-11-06 10:19:36 / IDE
There is a wound deeper than corruption, more harmful than poverty, more insidious than institutional violence: political hypocrisy.
Political hypocrisy is not simply an individual behavior, but a moral structure of Albanian society.
It is the reason why every reform, every initiative or political project begins with hope and ends with disappointment, why every ideal turns into interest and promises of honesty end up producing deception.
In Albania, political hypocrisy is not an exception, but the rule of the game.
Politicians who manage to get into the gears of the political system quickly learn the logic of survival: say what you need to to take power, do what you need to to keep it.
He or she who does not fit into this system, who tries to bring a different model in the service of change and development, is cast out of the system as an example not to be followed.
At the root of this crisis lies precisely hypocrisy and lack of personal integrity. In Albanian politics, character is no longer measured, professionalism, integrity, political positions or the struggles one makes in the service of society are no longer measured, but blind obedience to the one who leads, the ability to deceive beautifully, and the "flexibility" of the spine, possibly not having the latter at all is one of the preferred qualities to develop political ambitions in Albania.
Integrity, political and civic morality, which should be the foundation of public trust, is today seen as an obstacle to a political career, and often even to a professional career.
The system does not reward people with conscience, but those who have the ability to adapt to deception.
Thus, a caste of politicians without morals, without ideals and without principles has been born and calcified.
This lack of integrity has destroyed the very meaning of politics as a public mission.
Instead of serving society, politics has become a profession of personal power.
Conscience is no longer a compass, but an obstacle.
Therefore, corruption is not a cause, but a consequence, a consequence of a perverted morality.
The words “reform”, “integrity”, “responsibility”, “nation”, “service”, “public interest”, “principles”, etc., have become empty labels for public consumption.
As a result, political morality has been replaced by performance, a stage where everyone plays the role of "righteous" in front of the cameras, while behind the scenes they sign agreements that destroy democratic standards and harm the public interest.
Political hypocrisy would not survive without the complicity of some media groups, which instead of being a mirror of reality, have become cosmetics for the political class. They clean up the images of politicians, government or opposition, hide failures, justify abuses and create a large stage where the government and the opposition play their roles in a common theater. Instead of informing the public, the media often produce a manipulated reality that serves the interests of this political class. Thus, a “mafia of perception” has been created that controls who speaks, who is heard and who should remain silent, driven not by the public interest, but by economic, clientelistic and political interests.
The political class, a minority of business that serves and is unjustly empowered by this political class, and a portion of the media and opinion makers, have created a secret trinity that controls public opinion not through violence, but through narratives crafted with selected news, paid opinions, and fabricated debates. In this way, the citizen is not informed, but is manipulated. He does not see reality, but a fabricated version of it.
Hypocrisy does not kill immediately and has no political color, but in 35 years, like a metastasis, it has invaded every cell of society and turned it into an amorphous body that no longer feels pain, revolt, or anything.
When a society no longer feels pain, it is spiritually and mentally paralyzed.
And today, instead of reacting, revolting, and rebelling against this political class that rules politically and economically, Albanian society is unfortunately bent under the heavy cross of distrust, powerless even to dream of change.
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