The carnival of politics
Between Grillo's show that has returned to the theater and the no less comical one from the Democratic Party, one doesn't even know what to laugh the most about when reading the political news. Damato's Scratches
It's okay that we're at Carnival and, as the old saying goes, every joke counts. But this time we don't even know what to laugh the most about when reading the political chronicles or, if we want to be more complete, those of politics and the judiciary together: a mixed fry served to readers for many years now. That by now to know and understand how much justice has become politicized, or politics has allowed itself to be expropriated by the judiciary, they frankly do not need the parliamentary commission of inquiry re-proposed by Berlusconi after yet another acquittal, and still pending other trials or investigations, amidst the resistance, doubts and so on, even from his allies. Of which, frankly, it does not seem to me that those who consider the usual parliamentary inquiry commission by now pleonastic are wrong, after all that has been seen and understood quite well.
Di Carnevale, the ineffable Beppe Grillo has long since chosen to resume his shows in the theatre. Who, having already confessed himself "the worst" in the title of the new series of his professional performances as a comedian, in another moment of irrepressible self-critical sincerity asked his audience how much damage he had caused to Italy by inventing the Movimento 5 Stelle, bringing it even in the place that was for a long time of the DC and finally entrusting, more less resigned, the management to a lawyer and law professor almost unknown until five years ago. Which, having arrived at Palazzo Chigi by chance, remained there in two editions that only a finally tired and perplexed Sergio Mattarella, even more than Matteo Renzi who takes the credit for it, prevented them from becoming three. And I really don't think, despite all the unpredictability of politics, that a third edition can mature any longer.
The "solitude of the satyr" announced by Fatto Quotidiano when referring to Grillo's show in Orvieto, the audience who flocked to it, the "court in decline" of the still guarantor of the 5 Star Movement and of the dinner he then consumed with Conte and Travaglio. Who, generous as it was difficult to imagine until recently, have forgiven their friend for having pushed the party into the arms of that misfortune who according to them would have been – anything but a resource – the former president of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi, even risking getting him to the Quirinale as well, as Palazzo Chigi is not enough for him. Since then, that is, from the "Conticide" recounted by Travaglio also in a detective story, all the troubles above and below the five stars would have arisen.
But no less comical is the show offered these days by the Democratic Party, and its currents and candidates for the secretariat, arguing about who does not speak badly enough about Giorgia Meloni at Palazzo Chigi, or even talk about it, I'm not saying well, but pretty good. Or don't talk about it at all.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/il-carnevale-della-politica/ on Sat, 18 Feb 2023 07:04:50 +0000.