By Artan Fuga

The collective conscience is insulted and revolted.

I feel a sense of disgust and misery for some analysts, professors, or moralists who openly or indirectly, like hyenas or foxes, pretend not to understand and essentially formulate the idiotic question: How did the world suddenly revolt?

The fact that for decades they have closed their ears and eyes, but not their mouths, reminds them that popular discontent did not exist, did not grow, and did not become a boiling volcano. Now they pretend to find the causes, while the causes are themselves.

The conscience of public opinion, especially that of revolt, is not formed in a second, neither without reason, nor instigated and kept alive by conspiratorial factors. It is created gradually until it is conceived in a common public opinion.

Without wishing to claim to be exhaustive, this dissatisfaction that today spills over into the squares and streets of the capital, into social networks, into homes and neighborhoods throughout the country, was created slowly and took the place of illusions and utopias that Albania, after the fall of the dictatorship, would now, immediately, automatically become like the whole of Europe!!!

1. Dissatisfaction came and was strengthened by the social reality itself, which instead of confirming the propaganda, openly opposed it. Demographic depletion, collapse of education, degradation of the country's productive infrastructure, stagnation in the country for European integration, manipulated electoral elections, an outdated political class that did not accept political rotation and the will of the citizens, degradation of health care, unemployment, in other words, everything that is black that the mass of citizens carries on their shoulders.
2. Emigration became a bridge connecting the life experience of the large masses of Albanians living abroad, in European countries and beyond, and the people living in Albania. Public opinion learned from this that life with dignity, civil liberties, the state as a servant of citizens, freedom of speech, etc., in Europe are not what an Anatolian political class offers us in Albania.
3. Social networks, so much anathema to the propaganda of all regimes in Albania, pointed out by all kinds of ignorant scholastics, proved their power as the people's media, as the people's universal cafes, where they cry out their troubles. Popular discontent finds its congealed place on social networks.
4. The degraded Albanian Parliament has certainly given the opposition the opportunity in its struggle for power to criticize the government and to highlight corruption and everything anti-popular. This should not be denied to the opposition, even though all this was a battle of words without any practical political role. As I have said, for various reasons the opposition is currently not a political factor in the Parliament, but only a lecturer. This lecturer aspect certainly helped to ignite popular discontent, while with its own political action it blocks it.
5. With the anti-questioning codes and laws, the population has understood that the vote in Albania is worthless. What the opposition considered as buying the vote invalidated it, but every purchase also has a seller, and selling the vote was in itself an act of popular revolt against vote inflation that even today is worthless. Meanwhile, the government controls the vote, as much as it needs, by electing those opposition deputies it wants, with mechanisms that citizens know well! When the political system resembles a closed system, then civic energies will flow especially outside it, outside politics, in a popular revolt and dissatisfaction that includes in its anger and wrath the entire political class of the country, and not only it.
6. It is known that the conscience of discontent and revolt is fed in the masses especially by the scandals and sins and vices of the ruling classes. This has been and continues to be the case. No matter how weak and rare the accusations of SPAK, they showed that corruption was not an artifact of political discourse, but a tangible reality. Billions of lek stolen, plundered, mismanaged. Let us not forget that the people see what a luxurious life those who call themselves their servants lead. The servant has climbed on the master's neck and says: Stop acting like a horse! The snorting and clattering!, hitting him with his heels in the groin! The salaries of the deputies in the stratosphere, the public administration filled with friends, patronages, and militants, some of whom are also socio-political euphoric to the point of idiocy. The quarrels within the ruling political class, the mutual accusations between government and opposition have often been about who has been more thieving than the other, more incompetent than the other, more vote-stealing than the other, more violent of squares and people than the other. This long history over two or three decades has one day instilled in the people the idea that they are all the same and has naturally radicalized the revolt and the dissatisfied public opinion!
The masses of citizens realized that they had been abandoned, that the government had abandoned them, that politics as such, which only revolves around the Parliament, media salons, and dinners, had been abandoned by the civil servants.
1. Ah, the civil servant! Listen to what citizens say, how they tell hundreds and thousands of cases when no work can be completed in a state office without flattering the civil servant, without telling him: how handsome and how beautiful you are, how smart you are, without promising him that he will honor the service he is doing you, for which you pay with your taxes, and finally, finally, by giving him money in his hand so that he or she can ask for it with his eyes, with his or her words, with his or her behavior.
2. The revolt and the dissatisfied public opinion did not come because citizens read the theoretical treatises of Locke, Spinoza, Rousseau, but because life taught them, because they feel abandoned in hospitals, pharmacies, mortgage offices where properties are taken according to the law that the deputy, the politician himself made and then tells others: Did I break the law? What do you have, populists? A people stripped of any property that accumulates in the hands of those who are appointed by political decisions or simply because they have the ability to be puppets to hide the real owner, return back to the politician or administrator one by one the money they supposedly earn through tenders.

Hopeless, abandoned, abused, paid as if given alms, insulted in every office, left dressed in used clothes, offered often useless medical drugs, left rain and sun, seeing the prosperous enlightenment of those who tell them every day: We are your servants!, disappointed, when after 35 years the promises have been trampled underfoot, when natural resources are given away, sold, and given away for personal interests, when they are told: Stay there because you don't know, I know! – what else is left for the civic conscience, the public opinion, except to be dissatisfied, except to revolt?