Now and always Emergency! The creeping undemocratic drift to the drumming of the complacent media

9 October 20204 years ago babelfish

Now and always Emergency! seems to have become the slogan that brings together the majority of the government and the compliant media, with the obsessive drumming of the numbers of the positives and the dripping of decree-laws, votes of confidence, but above all Dpcm. By now many journalists of the paper and of the TV are aligned on the idea that some constitutional violation, even if not strictly necessary by the pandemic, should be underestimated, in order not to question the holding of a parliamentary majority that could well turn out to be a minority in the event of elections anticipated policies

1. Eight and a half last Tuesday, a heartfelt Massimo Cacciari insists on the presence of an anti-parliamentary drift, accentuated by the very management of the pandemic; speaks clearly of Italy; but, face to face with a Lilli Gruber – as always aggressive with respect to any dissenting opinion with respect to his own, characterized by a boldly displayed partisanship – he falls back resigned to a general trend, however interpretable as a disease common to us too. On the other hand, this is a hypothesis shared by commentators from different sides, but above all endorsed by the second office of the state, the president of the Senate, in an interview that a gentleman like Giuseppe Conte dismissed by saying he "did not read it", finding comfort in the muffled relief granted to it by most of the mass media. By now many journalists of the paper and of the TV are aligned on the idea that some constitutional violation, even if not strictly necessary by the pandemic, should be underestimated, in order not to question the holding of a parliamentary majority that could well turn out to be a minority in the event of elections anticipated policies.

Borrelli's slogan "resist, resist, resist" , at any cost, to the populist wave, where our Salvini is put in the company of very different characters, such as Boris Johnson, Victor Orban, Donald Trump, echoes in the news offices. Jair Bolsonaro, all elected regularly, but united only by the dislike of the international left. Small and venial forgetfulness is that of not mentioning the leaders of the 5 Stars, starting with their guru, Beppe Grillo, who, confirming the movement's DNA, has continued to oppose representative democracy to direct democracy.

The continuous dripping of decree-laws, proxy laws, the use and abuse of the vote of confidence, but above all the extra-ordinary recourse to the decrees of the Prime Minister have ended up reducing Parliament to a mere organ of ratification of pre-packaged decisions by the government, on the basis of difficult mediations between the various parties of the parliamentary majority. The entirely intentional effect was to cut out the minority, whose participation is also invoked with a hypocritical face, in a completely sweetened variation of national solidarity in the face of the pandemic.

2. Exemplary in this sense is the use of the decrees of the Prime Minister – regardless of their certain unconstitutionality, since it is a question of limiting fundamental freedoms subjected in their essence to an absolute reservation of law, it is necessary to see all the implications in key formal concentration (discretionary to the limit of arbitrariness) of all the power held by the president himself. Thus destined to live off the same fear created by the perpetuation of the state of emergency, with an omnipervasive and obsessive media campaign that follows him in all his utterances, making him a sort of "man of providence".

But in this sense, see also the last decree of the Prime Minister, which has already been predefined in every point and has been presented to the Chambers, without prior knowledge of it and without being explained by the Minister of Health the continuity of an emergency, certainly significant in the number of infected, largely asymptomatic, but not in the number of hospitalized patients, especially those in intensive care (to date about 330 compared to almost 8,000 places available throughout Italy). Cui prodest ? Not only to the friend of the people, Giuseppi , who cunningly kept himself safe during the electoral confrontation, so as not to pay duty in the event of a negative result; but immediately afterwards he clogged up the video again, always taking advantage of the institutional role to lower his decisions, making himself the shield of a technical-scientific committee, which the publication of the minutes showed at times little or nothing heard. No, it has served, also and above all, to hold a parliamentary majority endangered by the electoral crisis of the 5 Stars, which the Democratic Party, which is the absolute beneficiary with the return of its constituents to their native village, ennobles by interpreting it as healthy in the arduous but necessary transformation from movement to party with the bright prospect of a structural alliance.

3. Now and always an emergency, with the obsessive drumming of the crescendo of the numbers of positives, without distinguishing between symptomatic and asymptomatic which constitute the largely majority percentage, between asymptomatic patients with weak and strong viral load, being the former unable to spread the virus ; as well as without highlighting the incredible progression of knowledge and therapy. All this causes an extremely traumatic impression, so as to experience the pandemic as unstoppable and invincible.

The deadline of the emergency has been extended until the end of next January, but if a possible coexistence with the virus is dramatized, this could be further extended, again with a notary acknowledgment by the Parliament. But there is much more, because if the last decree of President Conte has kept a deliberately low level, nothing assures us that, within these three and a half months, a new decree cannot intervene until a lockdown. , passed with some rumors from the opposition, but without any institutional union: if it is true that there is a judge in Madrid, who declares the lockdown contrary to fundamental freedoms; this judge is certainly not in Rome.

Having imposed the level of measures envisaged by the decree as the minimum to be respected by all the Regions, so that they are only allowed to further tighten it, entails a centralization that damages its autonomy, which the left had emphasized with that reform of Title V passed through the broken cap. But it also mortifies the intense action to combat the pandemic conducted by the Northern Regions, which, due to a strange peculiarity, are all governed by the center-right, except for Emilia-Romagna. Now that the ball seems to pass to the Southern Regions, with the largest managed by the center-left, uniformity, regardless of the actual ability to respond, becomes the rule.

4. The question about the absence of the President of the Republic remains suspended, although he delights us every day with wise lectures in the continuous sequence of world days dedicated to this and that. It may be that he limits himself to exercising moral suasion , but he must do it in such a soft way that it is not obvious. I have long been convinced that Mattarella is completely tolerant of what the good Sabino Cassese considers a constitutional sgarro, because he too, convinced that this is the inevitable cost to be incurred to stop a right, which, due to his history as a man of Christian Democrat left, moved step by step to Renzi's Democratic Party, protagonist of his election, remained on his stomach: any right from Berlusconi to Salvini.

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