Is the “silent majority” adopting Draghi as its leader?
The Cameo by Riccardo Ruggeri
This is a sad time for me. Two minorities of my fellow citizens are fighting over everything. The Wuhan Virus and the Vaccine have sparked a mutual current of hatred. Both say they hate hatred, but they are the first to hate each other, as well as to hate each other. They dissert on freedom, using lofty and definitive words, but refer only to their own freedom, disregarding that of others. How nice it would be if each of them, of us, were to be silent for a day, shut themselves up in their room, close the shutters, reflect on the future of the country, reset their selfishness, open up to collaboration.
I remind them that the "silent majority" continues to represent 60-70% of the country. Of course, in political votes, as there is no party to represent them, they are divided between resigned abstention and center left and center right. In the pandemic, the "silent majority" paid the highest price, due to the incompetents of Count 2, they were kept in check by their continuous lockdowns (at the same time, as a country we have achieved one of the worst indices in the world of deaths per hundred thousand inhabitants). It seems that now, desperate and disappointed, the "silent majority" is falling in love with Mario Draghi.
Thanks to his international standing and his ability to decide, added to the diabolical ability with which he communicates, he has placed himself as the leader of the party that does not exist. He pointed to the obvious as a strategy: with a carpet vaccination, deaths are reduced, so are intensive care, so are hospitalizations.
What to do to convince everyone to get vaccinated without imposing an obligation, given that we are a parliamentary republic? Towards the (savvy) politicians he used the same technique as the CEO when his Board has divided and quarrelsome shareholders (I called it: “management by emotional blackmail”) and uses them with great tactical-psychological ability. A recent example: he chooses an unfortunate phrase by Matteo Salvini on vaccination of the under 40s, he stigmatizes it, with an unpleasant excess of verbal violence, but thus creates a "pendant" atmosphere to make the decision to place confidence in the Cartabia decree (the his real goal). In one fell swoop he and Giuseppe Conte put them back in their place, in the second row. He then leaves Roberto Speranza with the low cuisine of the green pass , a document already embarrassing by its nature, let alone if written and managed by ideologized bureaucrats and virologists.
Draghi has understood that the "silent majority" is interested in only one thing, to go back to life, not how to get there. Thanks to his decision-making approach, the lack of skills and political-cultural depth of the current political leaders, left and right, has emerged. Meanwhile, they get excited, scream, go to the streets, but are silent on the old refrain "elections, elections". The polls are ruthless, they say they are all returning, mogi mogi, at 20%, one has halved, another has doubled. At two thirds of the legislature, the parties are all there, with their tails between their legs, or stalled or in decline.
Draghi, whether the left and right political elites like it or not (I assure you, both do not like it), is declining the will of the "silent majority" into political acts. He got the point: life must continue, in a civilized way, without being conditioned by the ideological saws of the two opposing minorities. Do vaccines pose a risk? Of course, life is a risk. Should freedom be respected? Of course, as long as it is not that of one part but that of all. And who disagrees? Vote against in Parliament, or have recourse to the Council, but stop babbling.
On a personal basis, I specify that Mario Draghi is not my type, let alone the others, but being the Premier certified by Parliament, I have to follow his directives, and I do it with the utmost generosity. In a "mellifluous regime" like this, it is better to be a subject of one of the "Masters" of Europe, rather than inept and ridiculous "Factors", as happened to me for 70 years, with all the previous Premier, especially the last five. Prosit!
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/la-maggioranza-silenziosa-sta-adottando-draghi-come-suo-leader/ on Sun, 01 Aug 2021 06:47:03 +0000.