An advice (not requested) to Carlo Calenda
The Notepad of Michael the Great
The list of unflattering epithets about Carlo Calenda is now as long as a Lent: divisive, reckless, turncoat, fuming, bold, touchy, arrogant, superb, radical chic. Rome is well worth a mass, and the clergy of Largo del Nazareno do not like that to officiate it is a layman, who moreover – summa nequitia – defines himself as a left-wing liberal. By running for mayor of Rome, the leader of Action was certainly courageous. In fact, without the support of the Democratic Party voters it will hardly go to the ballot.
Perhaps his was a calculated risk, which bets on the swamp of a party unable to propose equally competitive names (absit iniuria verbis, but, unlike what Enrico Letta thinks, Roberto Gualtieri does not seem like a crowd-puller). I can't tell. A month before the municipal elections, however, allow one of your virtual voters an unsolicited advice: if I were him, I would be on my guard, I would lower the tone and I would choose a more sober use of social media. Because among the Democrats there are not a few followers of a new cult: that of the lack of personality.
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"The Pope [Leo XII] who similarly abolished codes and courts instituted by the French wanted to return to the orders of the old time, and locked Jews up again in ghettos and forbade them to witness practices of a religion that was not theirs, and even forbade the grafting of smallpox that mixed the sap of beasts with those of men: vain efforts which then yielded to the needs of the times (Benedetto Croce, “History of Europe in the nineteenth century”).
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Lectio magistralis by the most illustrious of the PCI founders to his forgetful students of yesterday and today: “The South does not need special laws and special treatments. It needs a general policy, foreign and domestic, which is inspired by respect for the general needs of the country, and not by particular political or regional trends ”(Antonio Gramsci,“ Il grido del popolo ”, April 1916). The most effective "taxation advantage", in other words, is that of a South that can count on a State engaged in its essential functions, and only in them: correctly administer justice, guarantee the safety of citizens, provide health services and educational institutions, infrastructuring the territory, acquiring those planning skills that are essential to profitably use European funding in the fields of technological innovation and urban renewal.
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“The prosecutor must not have any kind of kinship with the judge and must not be, as he is today, a kind of adjudicator. Those who, like me, request that (judge and prosecutor) be, on the other hand, two structurally different figures in skills and career, are branded as an enemy of the independence of the magistrate, a nostalgic for the discretion of criminal prosecution, eager to place the prosecutor under the control of the Executive "(Giovanni Falcone).
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"If a large part of the voters figure on the payroll of the state […] If the members of parliament no longer see themselves as taxpayer agents but as representatives of those who receive wages, salaries, subsidies and other benefits taken from public resources, democracy is doomed ”(Ludwig von Mises).
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/un-consiglio-non-richiesto-a-carlo-calenda/ on Sat, 11 Sep 2021 05:40:25 +0000.