This piece is not an account of an important day for Italian politics. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni presented himself at the Chambers after his defeat at the referendum for an informative note, this is the technical term, on the state of art in foreign and internal politics. The news is known, no reshuffle, no resignation, no early elections, it goes on with the majority program until 2027.
Health, safety, immigration, answers to citizens and companies on energy and inflation, the strongest consequences of the Middle East war. The negative reaction of the oppositions, Schlein for the Pd, Count for the crickets and Renzi for Italy Viva and for itself, were very hard. Predictable but also not.
This is therefore a piece on democracy in Italy while the world is on fire both in a concrete sense and in that of the grammar of a geopolitical all to rewrite, beginning with the unity of what we once called the West. In homage to the editorial line of our newspaper I mention a great American artist and intellectual, Woody Allen.
God’s dead, and I’m not doing it so well, that’s the joke. God is alive in the present of us Catholics, but democracy in Italy does not pass so well. Not because there is the center of power but because those who fight it do not make sense of the general interest.
In these days, in the face of a non-aggressive but tough premier, not insulting but resolute, a political figure that remains, remains, that does not give up at a time of general difficulty, they felt the usual answers to the limit of the insult. The right of criticism is sacred, but the obsession of taking the place of another is not polis, that is politics for citizens, politics for Italians.
And the house plan for 100 thousand people announced since May 1? Almost a nuisance, a nullity on the media by now towing obsessives, better to put it with Trump and Israel as if tomorrow one of our leaders could play in public discourse with historical allies that can also make their mistakes. Like everyone in history.
Wrong or not it is our country, said an American sailor at the dawn of the first modern Constitution, that which sanctions freedoms that in Iran or China or Russia, for example, are denied. But ours, for those who do not command, is always a wrong country. Except forget the mistakes he made when he commanded.
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