It often happens that an intrinsically American fact also becomes a great theme of the Italian public debate. We are talking about the murder of the young conservative influencer Charlie Kirk. A murder we can write to political hatred.
The greatest democracy in the world is also the one that leads into the great darkness of mysteries and a violence that in history, many times, has become real. You don’t have to go too far. Trump could have been killed during the campaign. The bullet that, according to him, God deviated has the scope of his ear but was dedicated to his head.
I’ve been ten times in the United States for my Top Secret for John and Robert Kennedy’s (non-natural) death and the murder of Martin Luther King. President Reagan shot himself, but John Lennon also shot himself, perhaps a parapolitic murderer.
Every time you dance between gestures of individual madness, plots, secret services, ambiguity. This time ideological hatred has something to do with it. In Europe, the massacre of the Norwegian neo-Nazi Breivik (77 dead) was ideological. But America has its own different genetics and also paradoxical, precisely because, as said, it is also a mature and extraordinary democracy.
Fortunately for us, the political opponent is still fighting especially with words. And here are the two women leaders of the country, Prime Minister Meloni and the secretary of the Pd Schlein, on Kirk’s history have dialectically menaced.
For Meloni and the Italian center-right the assassination of Kirk makes us see what happens when a opposition uses tones of violence, hatred, annihilation of the opponent. For Schlein, Meloni exploits her favor, but the conviction, she says, was unanimous. But some progressive intellectual in the trap of justification has fallen.
On this I am net: the physical violence that leads to death is said no and that’s all. Without if and without but. And the speech must be of all, bipartisan. Italy has also had its lead years and we do not want them again.
Political dialectics must be blinded and free, but nothing cancels cultures, zeroing of the other: it is dangerous for some brains. The American paradox (another) is that erasing cultures comes more from the progressive world and not from the supposed authoritarian world of trumpism.
And it is precisely a short circuit of those who defend the rights but the right to want to silence (until the extreme, then, unfortunately, in the interpretation of some fanatic) those who do not think like us.
Do we put limits on political language? No, but we put limits to consciences and make a reference to something that has little charm but is always very useful, that is to common sense, to measure, to balance.
In the awareness that words are not empty coins, but the highest form of action of the human brain. Learn to use them.
Article The power of words comes from IlNewyorkese.
