The fascist hysteria that drove the popular vote
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November 24, 2014 at 3:11pm
When I heard this before the last general election, I froze. Not because it made me understand that this bunch of crooks would be elected to power – I had understood that as far back as 2008 – but because it is fascist hysteria-drivers harnessed and reinterpreted for a backward Mediterranean island in the 21st century. It is Hitlerian.
And now, it has been exposed for what it is, and the people who allowed their emotions to be driven by it are looking like fools and worse.
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Scary stuff.
Why today, any particular reason?
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-24/local-news/Government-to-take-first-step-to-decriminalise-use-of-drugs-this-evening-in-Parliament-6736126248
Are they under any particular pressure?
You bet.
Quick, when no-one’s looking. Today’s also supposed to be the Opposition’s take on that budget.
‘..Instead, there will be fines of between €75 and €125 for people caught with less than two grammes of drugs or two ecstasy pills, while those caught with cannabis will be liable to a fine between €50 and €100…’
Imagine the police with electronic measuring scales in their patrol car to confirm whether the coke’s for personal use.
And does it mean four in a car makes eight grammes?
I always end up comparing what happens in Malta with what happened in France at the turn of the 18th century.
Napoleon, an inverted snob, worked the mob into a frenzy, on the pretext that France would fare better without the monarchy. And when he managed to literally behead the monarch he called himself Emperor and couldn’t even wait for the Pope to crown him.
Napoleon crowned himself and his wife Josephine as Emperor and Empress of France. On a positive note, when Malta fell into his hands, because the Maltese were fed up of the Knights and decided they needed a change, his reign lasted only two years.
Those were two long and miserable years. The last time the Labour Party managed to win the government, they lasted two years. Is it just my wishful thinking or is there any hope that history repeats itself?
Alas, it is the will of a tyrannous majority to the detriment of a large minority that was not blinded by the bling being shoved the throats of so many. Since this was the will of a foolish mob, I wonder how much more nonsense we have to take to realise that as long as fools keep voting, we keep getting the same minestrone of “ġdur” and “basal”.
Always hated Napoleon and men with napoleonic traits, of which many exist on this isle.
See the comments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwhVsrz6U6E
Daphne, are you sure that they are looking like fools? I’m not so sure. Unfortunately, for many people, the majority I’m afraid, everything is fine – the government is performing, Malta is thriving.
Even the tone of voice is a giveaway. Staged.
The P.L. have had this streak in them, since Mintoff’s time.
His brand of Socialism had a kind of dangerous nationalism in it, which was akin to other non-aligned nations, as in South-east Europe at the time and also those countries such as Nasser’s Egypt.
Joseph Muscat’s politics is a 21st century version of this kind of mentality in which an anti-social brand of neo-liberalism is combined with an us and them mentality.