Unfortunately, that is the reasoning of many, along with the usual “they’ve been in power for 25 years now, far too long …” (with the fact that Labour was in power from 1996 to 1998 conveniently completely obliterated from memory).

Another overnight issue of “Payback Time,” perhaps?

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I say the PL, MLP, whatever, is an unsustainable idea in an island this size.

Redistribution of wealth in a closed system will inevitably lead to entropy, that lukewarm tasteless soup. We’ve seen it in the 70’s and 80’s, a progressive degeneration of spirit and impetus. It doesn’t take long to bring this place to a complete halt, no mass. What is one to do? Boffa had the Brits, the PN has the EU, they had Gaddafi.

The latest design is to bring everything on board with the premise that somehow, if everyone works to it, it might just work. Being members of the European socialists isn’t enough, I don’t think George Vella has the respect of any of his interlocutors.

Which logically leads to the the right wing aspect, the inheritance they prefer having, even because the right has been taken up by regional parties.

Labour always insisted on Malta being small in size, as if this could affect the way we should think. Joseph fails in understanding this basic premise, thinking his five years in Brussels are enough, fact is concept building has never been so poor in Labour.

Inheritance might also carry material benefits, which they cannot do without. The way I see it, theirs is a desperate attempt to regain self-respect and a raison d’etre, otherwise why bother?

Joseph was quite vocal about this initially, then the rot started. It would be interesting, for example, to know why they abandoned the new logo, if the intention was to distract the party faithful before the blue or if it was received with malcontent.

One never messes with symbol, doing away with it means a transitory state, to where, is anyone’s guess.

Reminds me of bowels.

For the PL, no apologies are given and no policies provided. There is only attack against a (wishful) demonized PN, portrayed as “corrupt” and “inept.” There can be no truly rational discussion of its own credibility or trustworthiness, but rather there is an appeal or advocation for the voters’ unanalyzed trust, in the collection basket of its self-generalization to all (men/women/undecided/undetermined). Just believe, and your dreams will come true.

The PL is simply a projection for its anachronistic and populist desires: a psychological “inkblot” for whatever its would-be supporters want to see, or as they may believe the PL to be, according to personal (and not intrinsically national) gain for themselves.

For those with a grudge or a bitter life experience, the PL seems to offer some hope for vengence and retribution, and may provide personal self-justification for their personal identities, after a generation of exile in the political wilderness (except for the two-year blip, now fourteen years ago: who remembers, right?).

And, along with this, the PL will offer their standard measure of good old-fashioned Socialist-defined “redistribution” of wealth (without a genuine recognition of the sources of true wealth creation in human and capital resources, except perhaps to steal and plunder from those resources as much as possible) according to political loyalities (and greed), and its political power to act against perceived enemies.

In its totalitarian framework, might defines right; and its “definition” of legal force becomes its justification. There is not the law of reason; but there is the law of its force through “law,” which is the [facist] code for its amoral or immoral purposes.

It is with good reason that the PL cannot define themselves within the context of other European Socialist Parties: the PL is fundamentalist and right-wing in its attitudes and amorality (or immorality called pragmatism), and seems to be rather confused in its identity (against the better-forgotten record of its Maltese history and the post-modern and current-economic contexts of struggling contemporary Socialism).

The PL hasn’t found a socially successful model for itself, except through force. And in its revolutionary fervor, the peasants storm “Castille,” and wrest power from the “king” and his “court”, and rationality is guillotined in the process–until, of is ill-fated natural course against the actual logic of external and internal forces and saner men, the revolution eventually fails.

But, for now, the natural course of politics is still unfolding within the timeframe of its Constitutional limits. There will be an election. And the voter decides. I hope rationality and reason will not be a casuality. I hear of many emotions out there among voters, often without their rational validation.