What do I think of the elite Draghi. Seminerio’s post (Phastidio.net)
Mario Draghi the elite and the common termites. The comment of Mario Seminerio, curator of Phastidio.net
I don't know if Mario Draghi's attempt to form a government will be successful. At the time of writing, we are still in the most exasperated and exasperating tactics by a political class of failures, and which largely clings desperately to some very worn-out narratives that still seem to have a grip on an electorate that is divided between dazed , little fans and cynics with a very short time horizon.
Let's take typical rhetorical reactions, every time a government changes during a legislature. This can happen in two “tastes”: in the case of a “simple” political crisis, with another majority identified by the parties and led by a person who expresses the same parties; or, in the event of a systemic crisis, which resurfaces at regular intervals in the form of a non-conjunctural economic crisis, with the arrival on the scene of an "alien" premier chosen by the head of state.
THE TWO KINDS OF IMAGINARY GOLPS
In the first case, the rhetoric we are witnessing is of the “shame! They are stealing popular sovereignty! ”. This is usually said by the defenestrated or self-defenestrated leaders, for their manifest inability or perhaps because they are ensnared by polls that give them on the rise. A similar thing happened with Matteo Salvini's autodenestration in August 2019.
Our shouted briefly to the democratic vulnus, forgetting that he had signed a "pact" (or contract, of those that the Italians love to violate, counting on the very long times of justice) with the other right-wing party acronyms (Forza Italia and Fratelli d'Italia ) and who, having reached the point, thought he didn't care and "govern" with the M5S.
But the screams of crypto-coup also came from Silvio Berlusconi and his media, every time the Cav fell badly from the government horse. Remember the psychodrama about the end of his first government in 1995? The simplest minds had come to believe that there were colonels around with tanks in the square and snipers on the roofs, and instead it was just reality testing the soles of their shoes.
The same happened with the crash of 2011, but that was an episode of system crisis, which led to Chigi Mario Monti. Before and after that temporal caesura, there were screams of coup organized by the ECB with the active participation of Mario Draghi, at the time governor of Bank of Italy, and of Deutsche Bank, which sold 7 (seven) billion BTPs in six months, unleashing the our conspiracies. There too, it ended in desolating nothing but it served to fuel powerful episodes of popular and commoner aerophagia.
Complex learning process
Would we therefore be allowed to have hope and confidence that public opinion has finally completed the complex process of learning about the first kind of crisis, according to which majority changes are not a coup in a parliamentary republic? I have some doubts. The tank of Italian goldfish, immersed in the sewage, is always full.
We come to the systemic crises that induce abrupt and brutal changes of prime minister and majorities, albeit obtorto collo. It has been said about the Mario Monti episode; today we deal with that of Draghi. Which is compared to the former as an exponent of unspecified elites. Indeed, of very specific elites: Soros, the crew of pirates in Britain in double-breasted, world finance, France, Germany and all those who aim to flesh out this wonderful country that infused so much culture into humanity.
No to elite government, by God. And never mind that it is, with high probability, a government that will only try to put the glue on some spending nonsense, such as Quota 100 and the mysterious active labor policies that cannot be more passive, to the point that it seems to be back to the 1970s, embracing jobs that have been dead for years. All exacerbated by a pandemic that has grafted on to a spirit of the time that has identified "austerity" with the constraint of reality before that of the budget. As I have been saying for years, we Italians fooled us for never having understood the concept of opportunity cost. Tradeoff, for Anglophiles.
POPULAR VICE OF WILL
Young and old barricaders scream at the usurper "banker" of it is not clear what popular will, since we have already seen two governments in this legislature, and none of them particularly relevant to the dreamlike "contracts" of the electoral campaign. Draghi is in effect a retired central banker. But he is also the man who exercised an incredible role as a substitute for European politics, paralyzed by the crossed vetoes that were sinking the continent. So perhaps he is also and above all a politician, albeit completely sui generis as well as not elected, and without having to bother his Jesuit formation. And he is still a civil servant of this country, if we remember to look at his CV.
And yet, I repeat: it remains a completely temporary and emergency solution of a country that is profoundly and perhaps irremediably dysfunctional, as well as a solution that does not pass through useless ballot boxes. Useless because before their rite they consume others of pure pretense: the famous "contracts" and the famous "coalitions" which are nothing but business cartels that exploit popular credulity. It happens everywhere, I am told. Sure, we've seen this in recent years, especially in the UK and the US. In Italy, however, this dysfunction had already been going on for a long time, and it was able to dig the pit of the country better and deeper.
Mario Seminerio
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/che-cosa-penso-dellelitario-draghi-il-post-di-seminerio-phastidio-net/ on Sat, 06 Feb 2021 06:30:41 +0000.