The vent
My dear friends, unlike the "left-wing" fascists, we believe the people should have a say and are always right. So I'd say there's little to complain about. The direction the people have taken has been clear for some time:
And the same remains true as described in the prologue to "Italy Can Do It": it wasn't hard to imagine what a people who had just expressed their firm desire to amputate their parliamentary representation would decide! After the removal of their representatives' immunity, basic logic required, to complete the project of "democratic rebirth," the impunity of the competition winners be confirmed, and so it was.
Add to this the excessive power of the right on the communications front, which I exemplify with my overwhelming presence in the TgR Abruzzo as documented by the Pavia Observatory:
(If you don't see my name, it's because it's not there. And if you ask me what the hell my friend Misiani has to do with Abruzzo, I can't answer. After all, you know, I'm absent from the area; just follow my Facebook page to understand that…), and you understand that between the venom of anti-politics dispersed in the aqueducts and the tactical subservience in a communication system dominated by the Democratic Party with its filthy lies, things can only end this way, even if one defends the most just cause in the world in the best possible way (something I would have doubts about) (something I was reasonably certain of).
On the other hand, you've known for a long time what I thought of referendums on just causes, well before the famous referendum on the "hashtag" king ! I trust many still haven't figured it out today.
The only satisfaction is that I won a €50 bet with my staff, but I lost one on whether it would never snow again in Pizzoferrato (which led to me foolishly making a commitment to Genoa, where we'll meet up on Saturday with whoever's there), so I'm financially sound. For me, the outcome was a win-win: in one case, I would have a normal country; in the other, a people to be entrusted to their own fate. Saving the people from themselves is paternalism, and I don't see myself in the position of a Padoa Schioppa, and I can't stand it. We'll work with the tools we have, as always.
And now, who wants to complain about it? I'm preparing for schools in Genoa and Rome.
(… since the preceding and following posts are interesting and would once have sparked a lively debate, I ask you not to taint them with off-topic remarks. I dedicate this space to the many flies attracted by current events …)
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/2026/03/lo-sfogatoio.html on Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:24:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.