The prisons between Cartabia, Bonafede and the Suslov of the Democratic Party
Italics by Teo Dalavecuras
On July 14, only the Republic and Doubt "opened" with the visit of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice to the prison of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, where in the first days of April, according to media reports, there was was a mass beating, in a ferocious way, of detainees by elements of the custodial staff. The news emerged with great clamor following a "visit" by the Carabinieri, last June 28, to the prison.
The front pages of other mainstream newspapers, by diffusion or political-intellectual pedigree, from Corriere della Sera to Avvenire, passing through the Manifesto, La Stampa, etc. etc. they preferred to ignore the visit of Mario Draghi and Maria Cartabia to the "prison of horrors" as perhaps rightly, albeit with little imagination (I write perhaps because also in this case, in my humble opinion, the presumption of innocence is valid) the prison has been renamed SM Capua Vetere.
We all react to news in our own way, when it does not concern us personally, and the temperament or professional role does not lead us to ride or remove it.
As for me, I very much appreciated that the two politicians waited a few days (presumably also to check the news) before making their highly symbolic gesture on a date as symbolic as that of the storming of the Bastille, without the anticipated drum rolls. and trumpet blasts to which the Conte-Casalino governments had accustomed us and which apparently have left behind hosts of nostalgics. I say this without any critical intention towards information operators who for decades now, without other resources, have been building their schedules essentially on the basis of the inputs received from Rocco Casalino's colleagues scattered in every corner of the world and in every type of institution. from the UN skyscraper in New York to the less frequented municipalities of Padania, from the large multinationals to the public prosecutors; nor could they do otherwise even if, perhaps, they could at least have tried, a few years ago, to oppose a minimum of resistance to the pressure exerted by the second, more recent, source of "content": the strong and ephemeral emotions produced 24 hours a day by rampant social networks.
I do not want to be under any illusions: in addition to not making the news, the example of style and civilization offered by Cartabia and Draghi is not only not destined to be imitated but does not bode well for the duration of their government mandate. Because it has no "market".
There is no doubt – I believe that the polls confirm this – that Italians remain fond of another musical key, that of Bonafede who exhibits Cesare Battisti's scalp on the square of the airport of Rome, "with unified networks". Giuseppe Conte and his unforgettable super commissioner Domenico Arcuri who offer their faces to the cameras, which they rightly take pleasure in, and to the microphones, mellifluous and well-tuned streams of words devoid of content; or, it must also be remembered, by Sandro Pertini in Vermicino, in order not to attribute very widely shared "merits" to the 5 stars alone.
Whatever happens, the Italians are willing to settle for yet another investigation into Matteo Renzi and / or his loved ones, as long as it is properly "titled", but as far as prisons are concerned, once the smell of blood has dissipated, topic loses all interest. Why this is so I do not know (although I suspect that there is an increasingly less unjustified contempt for "politics", which once had to do with "public affairs", but which has now divorced from politics: it has long since moved in Brussels and the voters are exempted from the inconvenience of dealing with public affairs).
Moreover, if the Suslov of the Democratic Party and his secretary stubbornly continue to bet their chips on Conte, Bonafede and company singer (in an almost literal sense), there will also be a reason.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/le-carceri-fra-cartabia-bonafede-e-il-suslov-del-pd/ on Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:49:56 +0000.