A modest proposal: the Capitoline center-right be cleared and the police station
When in 1729 Jonathan Swift published his famous book "A Modest Proposal" , much of the public opinion, scandalized, really thought that the author of "Gulliver's Travels" had compiled a series of cannibal recipes to make children fat. poor and then feed them to the rest of the population. Misunderstanding the very serious tone, the clear prose, and the sarcastic and provocative intentions of the author, intellectuals, jurists and politicians came to the point of wanting to denounce and make poor Swift lose his job.
So let's be clear immediately: I have no intention of feeding the exponents of the Capitoline center-right to their constituents, I am not interested in discussing cooking or providing recipes, as if I were a Carlo Cracco at Jeffrey Dahmer's school, and it is good to specify this immediately in order to avoid any misunderstanding, given that sagacity certainly does not abound among the various qualities of the Capitoline center-right. And not even the irony, in hindsight.
But there always comes a time when the pitiful doctor ends up making the sore even more purulent, and here instead it is time to sink the scalpel deeply and cut hard in order to avoid the progression of the gangrene that devours the non-progressive political area. .
The electoral debacle , because this is what we are talking about, not only did it not reconcile any form of analysis but on the contrary it left a disconcerting trail of improvisation, trademark errors and masochism worthy of a better cause.
Giorgia Meloni, in an attempt not to take responsibility for the choice of a very weak candidate like Enrico Michetti, says that the main problem was the late choice, a too short electoral campaign and the fact that poor Michetti did not have the opportunity to to be known and appreciated by the electorate.
A few days later, with a gimmick worthy of the pen of Ionesco and Jarry, Michetti announces his resignation as Capitoline councilor. Resigned directly without going through the street, without even sitting for twenty minutes on the benches of the Capitoline Assembly. With all due respect to 'making yourself known'.
And to think that Virginia Raggi has built her own political career and her own election as mayor starting right from the opposition seat.
A tempting opportunity for the shrewd Calenda, who had previously announced that he would give up his seat and prefer to stay as MEP, taking the moralistic reproaches of the FdI Mollicone deputy, and then thought about it, so as not to pass himself off as any Michetti .
Michetti, who according to Meloni should have made himself known, would have had years of opposition to make himself known, to prod the administration led by Gualtieri and to become aware of the ganglia and essential junctions of the Capitoline macrostructure and of the often unwritten rules of politics Roman, things that no professor or lawyer, no matter how popular, can know without having gone through them and without getting his hands dirty with daily practice.
After these disconcerting resignations, one would have expected that, in coherence with the previous Melonian statements, the Brothers of Italy would have pronounced themselves with severity on this choice devoid of rational sense (if not perhaps that of letting the first of the unelected in).
And instead, with the authoritative but isolated exception of Fabio Rampelli who harshly stigmatized the Michettian move, other voices of the Melonian party even took the side of the radio tribune. The Honorable Federico Mollicone, who had produced a paean on the disrespect shown by the then resigning Calenda, remained in very religious silence on Michetti. Francesco Lollobrigida, FdI group leader in the Chamber, and whom someone would even like to nominate in the Lazio Region, perhaps to lose without even having to commit too much, even praised the choice of Michetti, who fled far to the horizon. He called the resignation " generous ". Yes, you read that right, generous . Also saying, verbatim, that the resignation is a sign of consistency and seriousness. It is true that a nice silence was never written.
Clearly, behind these resignations and in the light of the inconsistency of the declarations of the exponents of the center right, one thinks that there was not really a spontaneous choice of the candidate for mayor and that more than anything else they were dictated by current political realism, that is, useful for rebalancing the various nuances of the tribes that make up the Capitoline Brothers of Italy, without displeasing anyone apart from the voters and favoring the entry into the courtroom of the first of the non-elected.
Simonetta Matone has shown much different stuff that consistent with the vote received remains in the Capitoline Assembly, which certainly also created some grumbling among the non-elected leaguers, but which demonstrates respect for the voters and consistency.
Then there is, in the age of the society of the spectacle and of the signs that predominate over everything, another aspect that leaves you speechless, bewildered, stunned. The elected exponents of the center-right, perhaps forgetting the blow taken and having tried in every sauce to have accredited themselves as a responsible and competent force of city government, have produced wonderful photos with 110-tooth smiles and wonderful pindaric impulses used as caption all based on a new political phase, a new beginning.
They hadn't even won. They hadn't even sat down among the majority banks. Fresh start of what, exactly?
After years and years spent among the opposition benches, to wear themselves out, andreottianamente, away from any exercise of power, and trying to break their backs to be accredited as the future ruling class, they have been driven out once again from the control room, from the center. nerve center of power, with an electorate who preferred to desert the polls rather than trust them.
And then those smiles, that fake, plastic selfie joy from the first day of school, are completely out of place, they are a clear offense to the voters who still wonder today how the center-right managed to bet on Enrico Michetti, and for what reason during the entire electoral campaign we have never heard of programs, concrete projects, an overall vision of a city that every day sinks into the mud of inaction and inertia, crumbling in a miserable way.
One would think that this political class has no serious intention of winning the elections and prefers to stay and graze in the comforting enclosure of its ghetto, far from any responsibility and far from power. Of course, being an opposition counselor is comfortable: you can yell at the misdeeds of those in government, without taking any real responsibility.
The point, and the problem, is that in the long run this distance from power makes you flow back to a kind of Gollum, uncertain, shapeless and blind, now structurally incapable of conceiving the very idea of being able to govern and win.
Natural born losers . Losers born. In those photos, in those declarations, I see in fact the mad joy of the narrow escape, the contentment of having lost.
So here's the proposal: the center-right capitoline ruling class be swept away, be commissioned by the national level.
And this for a number of self-evident reasons. Not only because Rome is the capital, a vast electoral audience and functionally national showcase, but also because in the belly of this city and of an elephantine administrative structure, within which the trade unions exercise unparalleled powers, social, productive and trade union forces are stirred up precisely that represent nationwide springboard.
Rome is Italy. Its political dimension cannot be thought of as if it were a small local authority. Precisely for this reason, and in the wake of the chilling electoral result, the leading cadres should be eliminated, deprived of any power. On these ashes, the national political level should set up a control room with departmental structures to start drafting, with extensive stakeholder consultations, an authentic program divided by themes.
This sort of 'constituent' structure should be managed by not only Roman parliamentarians, by competent technicians and connoisseurs of the Rome capital body, right now that the body is getting close to having to manage the Jubilee, Expo 2030 and the various plans of the PNRR. , all these elements that represent another obvious reason for the national caliber of city politics.
The structure I propose, a sort of federated pact that also brings non-Roman experiences and sensitivities to Rome, beyond the feuds, hatreds, dislikes often karst in other evident cases and in the light of the sun, would be based on the need to production of documents, deeds, proposals, program: these things that would end up being evaluable, in progress and in the long term.
You can't pretend, you can't bluff, you can't say you've written a program without actually doing anything. Precisely for this reason, the structure would be hybrid, half political, half technical, in order to put these distinct souls in arrears and have each other controlled and above all by introducing, with the technical quota, individuals completely extraneous to the tribal and current logic that animate Rome. .
Leaving Rome to the Capitoline politics alone means de-quoting and weakening the national center-right itself, it means leaving the snitch of the game and the action only in the hands of the center-left, which already today winner of the elections will find itself able to manage those huge and very important events that will bring together millions of pilgrims, tourists, entrepreneurs and funds over Rome. On Rome, and on Lazio, a game that is national is being played. Not understanding it will doom to political irrelevance.
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