Look, I don’t give a damn who wins in 2028. Like I’ve expressed so many times before, I could­n’t care less about elec­toral pol­i­tics and oth­er “func­tions” and per­for­ma­tive “rights” of neolib­er­al democ­ra­cy. I think, though, an Anni-Yameen alliance is exact­ly what we need right now.

Hey, I don’t think they’re going to do any­thing good, okay?

It’s just that now, you can observe this the­atre with­out the blind­folds of neolib­er­al par­ty pro­pa­gan­da. Now, you can see our oppres­sors as a sin­gle unit. Neolib­er­al democ­ra­cy’s false bina­ry between a “rul­ing” par­ty and “oppo­si­tion” par­ty is now shat­tered, and you can plain­ly see that they are all lit­er­al­ly on the same side, that is, on the side of cap­i­tal. The illu­sion is dead.

Hon­est­ly, these peo­ple are so far up their own ass­es that they don’t even realise that only their echo-cham­ber loy­al­ists are cheer­ing this on as some sort of whole­some we-can-all-be-friends mir­a­cle. The rest of us — the “silent major­i­ty”, you know — find this spec­ta­cle fuck­ing dis­gust­ing… but not sur­pris­ing!

In 2023, when­ev­er I float­ed the idea that the Democ­rats will rejoin the MDP or that MDP will align itself with Yameen to beat Muiz­zu, peo­ple looked at me as if I’ve gone insane. Almost three years lat­er… well, well, well. How the turnta­bles, eh?

But you see, this is per­fect­ly in line with every­thing Nasheed and MDP as a par­ty has stood for thus far. Nasheed’s own words in 2023:

_{^{“There is not much dif­fer­ence in eco­nom­ic and busi­ness views between the PPM and the MDP. How­ev­er, the pol­i­cy of the [rul­ing] coali­tion is sig­nif­i­cant­ly dif­fer­ent. The coali­tion’s poli­cies make it dif­fi­cult for the gov­ern­ment”}}

In oth­er words: “we want the same thing! those guys just want it for them­selves, but we want it for our­selves”. Hey, what’s one more quote from Nasheed’s own writ­ings? Here:

_{^{“I am a con­ser­v­a­tive… I feel a nat­ur­al kin­ship with the school of thought that brought us Thatch­erism and Reaganomics”}}

Mar­garet Thatch­er and Ronald Rea­gan. Any­one with even the read­ing com­pre­hen­sion of a third-grade tod­dler who knows how to use a basic search engine would realise that these two are hor­ri­ble peo­ple with a hor­ri­ble lega­cy, hat­ed even by their nation­al peers.

The point is that for those of us who know these politi­cians and their par­ties, none of this comes as a sur­prise.

Betray­al! Your lives were just cam­paign mar­ket­ing props

What is incred­i­bly dis­gust­ing about this entire ordeal is the total betray­al of the move­ments these par­ties and their respec­tive politi­cians stood behind. Check these out:

And remind me, how did those “inves­ti­ga­tions” turn out? Oh, right, they just formed a com­mit­tee, appoint­ed a lit­er­al clos­et­ed Zion­ist as the head there­of, and then dis­solved the com­mit­tee with­out mak­ing any mean­ing­ful progress what­so­ev­er. By form­ing an alliance with the one per­son they accused of hav­ing helped cov­er up these crimes — from Afrasheem to Ril­wan to Yaamyn — they are quite open­ly say­ing “fuck you, fuck your friends, fuck your fam­i­ly, you’re all mar­ket­ing props to us, and that’s all you’ll ever be”.

Hey, ex-pres­i­dent Yameen isn’t nec­es­sar­i­ly off the hook either. Was­n’t he incred­i­bly adamant about his sup­port for Pales­tine and his respect for the nation and reli­gion? Then what the fuck is he doing play soft­ball with a bunch of Zion­ist sym­pa­this­ers who nor­malised rela­tions with Israel, brought over Israeli doc­tors, and went as far as to send diplo­mat­ic envoys to Israel, apart from appoint­ing Zion­ist-sym­pa­this­ers in gov­ern­ment? Kihineh thi vee, vagu-yaameenu?

Whether it’s Muiz­zu, Yameen, Nasheed — PNC, PNF, MDP — elec­toral demo­c­rat-cap­i­tal­ists will always only be loy­al to one thing: cap­i­tal. And their loy­al­ty to cap­i­tal means they will also be loy­al to the impe­r­i­al core, i.e., the USA and Europe.

This sce­nario is per­fect, though

How­ev­er, this alliance is exact­ly what should hap­pen. Not that I will per­son­al­ly par­tic­i­pate in vot­ing bull­shit­tery, though, but this is what I want­ed to hap­pen. I used to pray for times like this.

Now, effec­tive­ly, an “oppo­si­tion” no longer exists. Remem­ber, PNC and Muiz­zu’s dum­b­ass cam­paigned on Yameen’s plat­form only to back­stab him. In essence, you see, the cur­rent PNC loy­al­ists are oth­er­wise PNF/PPM loy­al­ists. MDP/Democrats as a sep­a­rate enti­ty was able to mas­quer­ade as the oppo­si­tion like they usu­al­ly do, but by active­ly form­ing a coali­tion with Yameen’s PNF, they have iron­i­cal­ly blend­ed every “major” par­ty into a sin­gle unit. PNF, PNC, MDP — what’s the dif­fer­ence any­more? Think about it.

We have now gone full pre-Nazi Weimar Repub­lic mode, and if you are a his­to­ry stu­dent, you’ll see exact­ly what I mean. Cur­rent­ly, in the Mal­dives:

• There are more than 5 rel­e­vant par­ties (MDP, PNF, PNC, MDA, JP, MNP, Democ­rats, Adhaalath)
• Ide­o­log­i­cal polar­i­sa­tion is high (eth­no-nation­al­ist cap­i­tal­ism ver­sus lib­er­tar­i­an cap­i­tal­ism)
• Some par­ties have mutat­ed into anti-sys­tem par­ties (PNF, Democ­rats, Adhaalath)
• There is oppo­si­tion from more than one front (PNC insid­ers, PNF, along with MDP)
• The “oppo­si­tion” (MDP) has been and still is irre­spon­si­ble
• Cen­tre-par­ties dom­i­nate the polit­i­cal sphere (MDP — cen­tre-left — PNF — cen­tre-right)

What you’re smelling now is the corpse of lib­er­al democ­ra­cy beneath that skin-suit. The rot­ting stench of fas­cism. But to have the cap­i­tal­ists as a sin­gle unit when they inher­it the 2028 gov­ern­ment would be per­fect, because then, there would be space for a true oppo­si­tion to devel­op. A true oppo­si­tion is one com­plete­ly opposed to cap­i­tal­ist neolib­er­al democ­ra­cy alto­geth­er.

When I think about that, the impend­ing results of the 2028 fills me with hope, not despair.

I pray for that future, and I pray you read­ers will be active­ly organ­is­ing on dif­fer­ent fronts in dif­fer­ent ways to pre­pare for post-2028.