Tummy Ache election
The die is cast, the elections are over and we find ourselves with the Italian government that we deserve. Nothing to say, are basically the rules of democracy, and Italy is clearly shifted to the right. Just a moment to reflect on the paradoxes of history to understand that Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, the father of history right on certain issues (one in all, a secular state), was much more to the left of the Democratic Party veltroni. We must therefore arm ourselves with pragmatism and face the reality that elections are not won in Italy with his head, but with the belly, with the portfolio and with the image. We can say that we already knew, after all, because "hardened paunch", to quote Dante, voter average face is easily influence by flattery and the fabled promise of greater wealth, as well as the bogeymen of "different" playing on the irrational and evoked self-preservation instinct that is triggered when you are faced with hazards are real or imaginary. It is not nothing new if it's true what they say Guicciardini centuries ago, the Italians are forgotten before the death of his father that the loss of the portfolio.
But that left some of my snobbery does not help to resolve the situation, it is useless to shut themselves up in their ivory tower dispensing with contemptuous arrogance looks at the world around us as if we did not live in that same world. Similarly explaining, as Diliberto, the failure of the left, and I refer specifically to the dramatic collapse of the left rainbow, by reducing everything to the lack of the hammer and sickle symbol, it means only show not to be able to do a basic policy analysis. Then now that the project of the PDCI, according to Diliberto, should be to reconnect and return to that political ritch (exact words) was interrupted in 1984 with the death of Berlinguer, I think it's crazy and it becomes clear indication of myopia that does not allow the political elite of Italian society to understand anything now. The causes of the defeat, in my opinion, are well other. First and foremost, of course, the support given to the outgoing government without this commitment be matched by the implementation of any of the reforms that the left had to be spokesman. Second, even if they are structurally more important, the impression that the new unitary subject was disorganized and unprepared. Certainly his birth was a necessary response to the road taken by Veltroni, but has always remained the feeling that you were chasing a goal not just heard. Thus, even the program, I feel that reflected the role of "civic consciousness" of centrist parties that the left has found itself in the last decade (for reference only to what I experienced first hand). Full of ideas interesting and (from my point of view) fully agree with the ethical values \u200b\u200band of those, the program left the rainbow But it lacked the requisite organic and economic pragmatism. That is to say that it was just the ideal plan, but did not propose a very solid and achievable plan that would ensure governability. This is not criticism of a vote or a voter who knows what liberal political force ... I voted left rainbow and I do not regret doing it but how do those who are always ready to abandon the boat of losers at the first signs of storm. This does not mean she can not criticize their choices, with constructive ends, of course. After all even too often they are leftists are ready to cite Marx as if it were gospel (plus local and national level, it is true), but I'm an atheist in every sense and does not replace an icon with another deifying the thought of a man, however acute, did an analysis based on the situation of his time (I only remember that the capital was published in 1867 !!!!!). So it makes no sense to me to be accused of being a reformist, not to be a Communist or who knows what else, it seems that everything depends on the terms, if mean communist who slavishly follows the "doctrine" and that Marx's economic thought that in the Capital there is a magic recipe for the economic situation of any historical period, well then they are not actually communist because I believe that Marx's thought can give some interesting yes, but no concrete answers to the needs of the present.
What then is the solution? Well, here falls ass and I with it. I admit that I still have the ideas clear enough to answer this, I just here trying to make sense of what has happened, the critical reflection is just the first step, but it is an essential starting point to rebuild something that really makes sense. Of course, the immediate thing to do I think it groped more local roots, act locally so decided and be receptive to the needs of a world that, as a bit 'musty and repetitive (as evidenced by the Berlusconi III), it is just frozen up positions imperishable, because, as Galileo said ..... "And yet it moves." (Hopefully for the better)