THE YES, THE NO AND DEMOCRACY ACCORDING TO MUSSOLINI

One of the most popular arguments among activists and propagandists of the YES in the referendum on the cut of parliamentarians is that of efficiency. Cutting two hundred and thirty deputies and one hundred and fifteen senators would make the system more efficient. To be lost in laughter. The current number of people's representatives was definitively established with the constitutional law no. 62 of 1963.

And this happened by the almost unanimous will, from right to left, of a political class that boasted exponents such as Alcide De Gasperi or Luigi Sturzo. In short, authentic giants on an intellectual and moral level, especially when compared to certain current garden gnomes. Before that, the number was variable in relation to the population: one deputy for every eighty thousand citizens and one senator for every two hundred thousand. They understood that the senate was underpowered precisely in terms of efficiency: the senators were too few for the necessary legislative production.

And we are talking about a historical era in which the Italian population traveled around fifty million inhabitants against the sixty million today; of an era enormously less “difficult” than the present one; of a period in which the incessant process of rationalization and systematization of complexity certainly did not require the flood of laws, regulations, orders, disciplines of today. So why, suddenly, are they telling us that an almost halved parliament would work better, more "efficiently"? The answer is very simple and it is the real (unspoken) reason behind the strategy of the real (undeclared) inspirers of the referendum: our parliamentarians, already now, practically limit themselves to a notarial task.

Because already now, in hindsight, the bulk of the work is delegated elsewhere, in the upper area or, in any case, in "other" places. Think of the fact that at least one third of the legislative production, that is, of the rules that we must obey, are created, written and filed by the European Commission. Under Law 234 of 2012, our parliamentarians by February 28 of each year must limit themselves, like good schoolchildren with a blue bow, to copy and paste the decisions of Brussels. By transforming them, with a touch of a tragic wand, into Italian laws.

Or think of the fact that more and more often it is the government that legislates by decree, only to put trust in conversion. Or, finally, think of how many times, faced with the most disparate topics, the task of deciding is delegated to the "competent", the "scientists", the "experts". Hundreds and hundreds of unknown gentlemen of good reading, of good manners, of good reputation, but voted by no one. The triumph of bad democracy. Here the mystery is revealed: we can do with four hundred parliamentarians, or even two, for the simple fact that they are the fig leaf on the pudenda of the new regime.

From a certain point of view, gentlemen are right: by cutting the parliamentarians, or perhaps the Parliament while we're at it, the pseudo-democratic machine at the service of the actually dominant oligarchies becomes more efficient. That telegram sent by Benito Mussolini, one who knew about dictatorships, to the supreme master of mass manipulation, Gustave Le Bon, comes to mind: "Democracy is the regime that gives or tries to give the illusion to the people of being sovereign ".

Francesco Carraro

www.francescocarraro.com

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