Sardines are back: usual banalities and staging in derogation of the anti-Covid measures
They had been missing for months, silenced by the pandemic and unable to swim due to their mediocrity. They returned with a surreal initiative: "the occupation", in full health emergency, of the headquarters of the Democratic Party to ask for a new constituent. The Sardines arrived in Rome last Saturday with tents and sleeping bags with the intention of occupying the Nazarene; instead they were welcomed with open arms by the president of the Dem Valentina Cuppi. The sleeping bags and backpacks were a simple staging, considering that those who should have suffered the occupation welcomed the "occupants".
After the pseudo occupation (it remains to be seen if theirs was an authorized demonstration or a simple political meeting) the usual banalities rained down. The value of bodies and physicality, the importance of actively participating in political processes and above all the need to regenerate the left by opening the doors to everyone, because outside there is a sea of beauty. In short, everything took place according to the script that had brought them to the fore: a series of banalities expressed in a language halfway between a song by Jovanotti and veltronism. Mattia Santori, with the usual rhetoric based on participation and physicality, for example, declared that the Sardines are tired of the politics made by the screens and that we need to put our face to it. Lorenzo Donnoli, on the other hand, stated that the Sardines would like to extend the progressive field to other forces of civil society and parties that are not just the Democratic Party; and that to do so requires a commitment not to fall back into the same diabolical Renzian and liberal recipe that led to the quagmire.
Also in this case, a banal opening to civil society, and then faults equally distributed between Renzi and liberalism (!), In an analysis that is anything but clean air (as suggested by the title of a fund published yesterday in Repubblica ) . Finally, Jasmine Cristallo declared that the Sardines “have understood that the Democratic Party is an archipelago of currents: we leave here more than as Sardines , as salmon”. Statements that do not need further comment. Also because not knowing the currentism of the Dems means not knowing at all the history of the party that one would like to regenerate.
The only novelty that emerged from last Saturday's staging is that the Sardines were allowed to violate the anti- Covid provisions relating to gatherings (there were about twenty) and perhaps also to travel, given that the one staged at the Nazarene was a political meeting rather than an occupation / demonstration. A violation probably allowed because, in the wake of their rhetoric, the Sardines make politics with a capital "P". Unlike ordinary people, they don't gather; they put their bodies, their physicality and their smiles at the service of the left. Taking on a historical mission, as stated by the Roman sardine Micol Urtesi. This is why the pandemic and restrictions can easily take a back seat. And while the country risks another lockdown , after a dramatic year, they have been rightly and democratically allowed to "occupy" the Democratic Party. Among the applause of those who, for other categories, asked for the utmost rigor. Two weights and two measures: the Italians silent as fish and the Sardines free to swim in the open sea.
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