A country in vigilant waiting: a government that is based on emergencies and does small cabotage
“ There is a profound misunderstanding: since there is an emergency we must stop, we must do nothing else, we must stay still. No reforms, no changes. This is not why this government was born, it was not born to stand still ”.
The response, however angry, provided by the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, during the question time last Wednesday in the Chamber of Deputies can only leave you astonished. Listening, rereading, it is difficult to attribute these words to him due to the obvious contradiction that is revealed: his government is based precisely on the emergency, or rather on the double emergency (the health one before and the war one now) from which it is unable to to break free. Moreover, despite the large majority that supports it, the government is often and willingly forced to raise the question of trust, locking up the parliamentary discussion and inhibiting possible changes, especially on pandemic measures.
In fact, if there is a minimum common denominator that connotes the action of the executive, it is the strenuous defense of the flood of restrictive decrees issued urgently during the last months, in particular what concerns the green certification now considered as an essential digital identification document for working, socializing and living. And it is precisely on the overall health management that the rigid immobility of the government has manifested itself, unable to provide the cd. road map to get out of the quagmire in which the citizens have sunk in spite of themselves. At the moment, we do not go beyond the alternate day declarations of the two deputies of Speranza, Costa and Sileri. But, in essence, apart from the abolition of the pass for outdoor activities, i.e. the minimum wage, it is not known when the health surveillance delegated to employers, shopkeepers, bartenders, restaurateurs, hoteliers will end, nor when it will cease. the hateful discrimination against those who do not have Green Pass in its various versions (basic and reinforced), devised by our intrepid rulers. In short, we are at the most classic "we will let you know" even if the deadline of March 31 is approaching, when the state of health emergency will end, and the unfortunate citizen is still at the mercy of the whims of certain politics.
Moreover, the picture does not improve for the government even if its work in other sectors other than healthcare is analyzed. Without considering the systematic exclusion of Draghi from the narrow leaders between Biden, Johnson, Scholz and Macron on the Ukrainian crisis, the land registry affair can really be the Caporetto of the government, whatever the Undersecretary War says, who has tied the survival of the executive to the approval of this provision. In truth, the " we will not increase house taxes " is very similar to another very unfortunate sentence pronounced by the premier in July: " The green pass gives the guarantee of being among non-contagious people ". Just as the green card has proved to be a surreptitious obligation, so the reorganization of real estate properties risks turning out to be a sting for taxpayers, even if starting from 2026. In short, nothing is flowing and courageous reforms, epochal changes, liberal turning points (not never said!), not even discussing it. Unless we want to consider "reforms" those that concern ecological transition projects, the policies that Greta's fans like so much, in short, those forms of environmental regressism that then lead to energy crises, cost increases, reduced services and worsening of the quality of life.
On the contrary, the characteristic feature of this government oscillates between conservation and small-scale cabotage. It is clear that, holding on to fragile balances, being supported by competing parties that feel the electoral appointment of 2023 is approaching, Draghi's path becomes rather narrow and impervious, making any variation on the issue risky. Therefore, the citizenship income is refinanced in the faulty grillina version on the one hand and, to try to defuse the referendums on justice, we proceed with a timid draft of reform that does not even touch the age-old problems that affect the overall functioning of the machine. judicial.
Therefore, you are navigating on sight, having as your objective only the conclusion of the legislature; a legislature, however, now exhausted in February 2020, kept alive by the pandemic, supported by the replacement of Conte with Draghi, who survived the race for the Quirinale and now entrenched behind the war in Ukraine.
This is why Draghi's speech seemed very out of tune in this critical and, in other respects, dramatic context. The emergency logic was and still is a boulder on government action that had to be faster, more dynamic and instead got tangled up in the cumbersome health legislation, often illogical and mostly harmful. With the bass drum of mainstream information which, on the other hand, celebrates the fact that we can go back to eating popcorn at the cinema, passing it off as a civil or liberty conquest. Then we have to hear the correspondent in London on Morning Five admit that there, in the United Kingdom, where all the restrictions (very mild when compared to ours) have been lifted, they look at us like Martians because we go around in disguise in the open air or we can't. to free us from pandemic paranoia. Behaviors bordering on superstition that have nothing to do with normal prudence but rather represent the caricatured image of a country which, while rising bills and economic uncertainty overwhelm the middle class, remain in watchful waiting. Or, more likely, only in declining expectation as in "The Desert of the Tartars" . Perhaps instead of such a tarnished Draghi we would need a Drogo, the protagonist of Buzzati's famous novel, with his ideal tension, his extraordinary epic and his absolute magnificence.
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