Eggnente…
(… just to make you understand …)
Look at this:
A polite, balanced, non-hostile service, and therefore I regret to point out that it is based on a misunderstanding, which I probably originated.
In fact, for me, the "glue" wasn't a metaphor for militancy, but rather an open display of intolerance towards those who demand respect for having put up posters, but who don't seem to have read those posters, and above all don't seem to respect those who wrote them.
That's all.
(… it may seem strange to you, but at a party meeting in Chieti, a nice old man asked his neighbor if I was a SOM, that is, an Ordinary Militant Member, because he felt older than me not only in terms of age—I would have had no doubts about that either!—but also in terms of party seniority, having been a member since 2016. He didn't know that I've known Matteo since 2013, that I took him to Abruzzo to #goofy3 in 2014, and that parliamentarians are SOMs by law. He therefore couldn't imagine dealing with a person who would even willingly put up posters, but doesn't need to because with a post on Facebook he gets the circulation of the Corriere della Sera, and who in fifteen years of work has created a community that is everywhere, even in the chair behind him. These are the joys, a little Chekhovian, a little Balzac-like, a little tacky, of local politics, friends. My dears! If you follow me, nothing will be spared you, neither the big nor the small things, and I have enough means to take care of both …)
(… I don't want my criticism to seem hostile to the journalist! Of course, if he had listened more carefully, he could have written a more spicy report, but… much better this way! I explain things here to you, in this blog that doesn't exist, so they can be useful to you. This anecdote, for example, I hope will be useful to those of you who have decided to become political activists and feel a bit frustrated because you can't – or think you can't – raise the level of the debate. It takes a lot of time and a lot of patience because you start from very low! Just as an example, it's strange how difficult it is to attract the "Lega" members of certain regions of the South to patriotic reasoning, despite the fact that they are mostly short-sighted orphans of the AN experience – the most far-sighted, obviously, ended up in Fratelli d'Italia. You expect that for the heirs of a nationalist tradition, themes like ours, of the redemption of national dignity, of the valorization of patriotism, could have an appeal , and But, alas, sadly not! On the other hand, if politics is glue, and if political reasoning is a nostalgia for a past not entirely worth remembering, then it's clear that things will go to shit. But, I repeat: if the path is the right one, with the necessary precautions, the fact that the comrades are the wrong ones is relatively secondary …)
(… the distinguished privilege of writing on a blog that doesn't exist but nevertheless speaks to hundreds of thousands of people, except those who would benefit – or be poisoned! – by listening… )
This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2025/11/eggnente.html on Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:45:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.