The inglorious glory of the last Berlusconi
The opinion of Sergio Pizzolante, entrepreneur and former PDL parliamentarian
A sad ending.
Berlusconi came to the world of politics with a brilliant idea: to fill the empty space of the Pentapartite and give a home to the survivors.
They had dropped the atomic bomb of the prosecutors and the media canea of the Talk and newspapers against the government parties, the losers of history were arriving, victorious only in Italy, to take everything and Berlusconi there mocked.
Forza Italia was the new pentapartite with Christian Democrats, Socialists, Liberals, subtracted the Christian Democratic left that was going to add up with its historical opponents: the PCI / PDS / Ds / Pd.
To seal this historical passage and to give strategic and cultural consistency to this new construction, which was primarily a defense from the "caravan" of the "progressives" of Occhetto, D'Alema and Veltroni that advanced (with the benevolent, let's say, look of Milan Public Prosecutor's Office), fine intellectuals arrived, from Lucio Colletti to Giuliano Ferrara to Antonio Martino, Giuliano Urbani and others,
together with fairly structured leaders (and left alive) of the bombed parties.
This was it. Even if it wasn't just that.
There were also televisions, newspapers, Milan, Milan 2 and 3, money, dreams of glory.
Being nobody and suddenly becoming someone.
There was a good program. Urbani had worked a lot on it, along with Brunetta and others.
A liberal revolution.
Change taxation, justice, bureaucracy.
Putting business and work at the center.
First the man then the state.
Defeating the pestilential justicialism.
Stop the caravan of the judicial road to power.
We made a bang.
We then changed almost nothing.
The tax authorities then worsened, even it was the Minister of Forza Italia Tremonti who made the law of the state "the inversion of the burden of proof", that is, it is the citizen who must prove that he is innocent. The opposite of the liberal revolution.
Justice has worsened, so has bureaucracy.
They did not make him do the justice reform, they say.
True, very hard, there are real powers there. They also arrest you. If they want. And they strongly wanted. Not easy.
But in short, justice has worsened.
This is a fact. It is a factual failure.
The antiberlusconismo fought the Berlusconi. With many victories.
Tragic victories, but victories.
Tragic because to make war on Berlusconi they built a horrible country.
Powers in disequilibrium in favor of the judicial one.
Tabloid press subservient to the judiciary. Mass ignorance. Hate. Social envy. 5 stars.
Then the dream shrunk. As Gaber says.
The best are gone.
Those who defended Berlusconi to defend an idea are gone.
Or they were kicked out.
Those who were defending only Berlusconi, giving a damn about the idea, remained gradually.
Those who also defended the indefensible.
And the more it was indefensible, the more the worst advanced. Up to Ronzulli .
Strange individuals. That doesn't help him end well.
There is no more glory.
Stardust.
Now just dust.
But even if it is dust, there is still something to be taken.
And they take it, pretending to still keep it in glory.
And he takes it. The inglorious glory.
That's what's left of him.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/la-gloria-ingloriosa-dellultimo-berlusconi/ on Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:54:08 +0000.