Shaking off the two-tribe mentality I do not know what sort of teaching in civics goes on in our schools. I expect the knowledge imparted in the subject to be intended to help our future generations to become active and informed citizens Michael Falzon 1 June 2021, 7:40am After Joseph Muscat’s astounding electoral victory in 2013, I thought that there was a shift in the way Maltese citizens look at party politics. The big shift from the PN to Labour was surely an indication of the beginning of the end of our tribal politics. It seemed to me as if we had finally broken the mould. The two different opposing political tribes – with each believing that whatever ‘we’ do must be right and whatever ‘they’ do must be wrong – appeared to me to be part of a receding scenario. We had become ‘a normal democracy’ where shifts in support for different political parties are occurring all the time between one election and another. How wrong I was!