The collapse of the left between Molinari, Gualtieri and Lacerenza
The protests against the director of the newspaper Repubblica, Maurizio Molinari, bring to light the anti-Semitism and intolerance of many progressive groups in our country. Battista Falconi's italics
Paolo Pombeni and Romano Prodi, in the Messaggero , speak in a different way about complex societies, people's difficulties, poor quality of political leadership and voting, reiterating the theme of those elected being worse than the voters: Giorgia Meloni herself, a few days ago, had touched by insisting on the concept that it is companies that create wealth, not politics. An idea that was strongly supported by Piero Angela, the famous scientific communicator (and scientist) who repeated it himself, but which also sinks into the old contrast between "real country" and "legal country". This is an expression of indicative ambiguity: to mean that real men do things and someone else, bureaucracies and political decision-makers, laboriously try to regulate them and take advantage of them; but also that homo faber tends to ignore the rules a bit, see the endemic and atavistic Italian tax evasion or the frantic pursuit of big tech to respect the principles of privacy, proprietary rights and fiscal duties.
And then there is the ineffable Lucanian candidate Domenico Lacerenza , who claims as merit: "Never been involved in politics". He also uses the same narrative, I wake up early, I work, it's the parties that called me. A paradigm spread by bars, raised to the nth degree by the Five Star Movement, the same one that led to the now faded Grillino success and the installation of Giuseppi Conte in the prime minister's chair. An erroneous, false, mystifying representation, since our leaders, although insufficient, are an expression of the majorities that vote for them; a solution that does not resolve the crisis of democracy, caused essentially by its reduction to an electoral rite, excluding any other form of participation in public life and correspondence between mandates and actions actually carried out; a pre-European tactic that risks bringing grist to the mill of the anti-premiere, an imperfect solution but one that seeks to reduce the gap between things and concepts, action and thought, desired and implemented.
Returning to Lacerenza instead, and although we all knew the self-harm of the left, we certainly couldn't imagine a Tafazzian disaster like the one that occurred in Basilicata, a few days after the narrow but significant victory in Sardinia. The defeat in Abruzzo is not enough to make us understand this, the problem lies in the ontological non-existence of the alliance between the Pd and M5s, two oppositional parties, and even more so in the ideological and cultural nullity of the oppositions. To remember this, the centre-right newspapers today write with a touch of perfidy in defense of the director of La Repubblica Maurizio Molinari, knowing that they are putting their finger on another painful wound: the anti-Semitism and intolerance of many progressive groups in our country. The story gives you chills, it has a hint of crystal clear night. Students provoke the officers, they are let through because otherwise it is said that the police will use truncheons, they enter and prevent the debate because Zionists must not speak and Repubblica is Zionist.
Of course, it is true that the class of politicians and rulers is worth little. Just look at Rome Capital: it threatens default, even if it tries to pass the blame, and the city is truly at a loss, with taxis that cannot be found, leaky and badly patched roads, eternally infernal traffic, unresolved waste management (and now the incinerators or waste-to-energy plants are they also see in Italy, not only in the virtuous Northern Europe). Although some people praise the work underway in Piazza Venezia, the construction sites and the Jubilee are the drops that broke the camel's back of intolerance.
However, we repeat, the dualism between leadership and citizens is not correct. If anything, we should convince the latter to force the former to improve with direct participation. A bit like the Italian employees who became shareholders of Essilux, who propose the adjacent theme of the participation of workers in companies, a proposal pending in Parliament and supported by Cisl. Management and ownership, not just salary, and see how you care more about the performance of your company
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/il-collasso-della-sinistra-fra-molinari-gualtieri-e-lacerenza/ on Sat, 16 Mar 2024 07:21:50 +0000.