They have passed the first step in the new parliament, the first two articles of the Italian Constitution. Which oblige us now to take note of an unpleasant truth: Third Republic , the new young agile fast efficient republic that is emerging is based on lies. These lies must not forget: will shape our lives in the months and years ahead.
Before you lie . A few months ago Matteo Renzi proclaimed that was allied with Berlusconi not to govern together, but to do with the rules. Request for comment in the course of an episode of Ballarò, the prime minister declared that this seemed to me the most witty joke of the season. Choose as a partner to make the rules, a gentleman who has always evaded and violated, and urged others to violate them; that when he made them, instead of making rules that apply to everyone, made them ad personam , that is tailor-made for him; a man who a sentence passed through three levels of courts incontrovertibly defines a violator of the rules detrimental to civil society … well, ‘I could not and did not want to believe it, I really thought that it could not be anything but a joke . I was attacked by some zealous young and opinionated commentators thought the Head , which was explained to me that – just think ‘- the constitutional laws should be done with the broadest possible consensus, by involving everyone. Imagine if he could stay out of the leader of the third party Italian! In the end I left out the second and fourth Italian party, plus some minor forces and some dissident of the majority. To all of them, including guillotines and Kangaroos has been denied the right to discuss, based on the principle, stated repeatedly that the government listens to everyone and then do as he had already decided before listening to anyone. To recap: the lie is “constitutional laws we will make with the participation of all”; the truth (that you should not say) was already four months ago, “the constitutional reforms we make with Berlusconi; all others will be excluded, and if they make a right. “
Second lie . It is stated that the bicameralism Italian slows down the legislative process . It is not true, we are in the European media, say experts in the newspapers. On the other hand if we are so slow, as we did in half a century to accumulate a few hundred thousand more, while the European countries that we face have produced a few thousand yes and no? I have never found an answer to the prime minister or some other representative of the Government to this question. Yet, the answer is simple: lack of particularism and patronage of the representatives of the people, more inclined to legislate on behalf of his Electoral College in the name of the Italian people and to use the legislative process as a gym for vetoes between the political forces and within each political force. So the Senate should not be changed, but those who sit there.
Third lie . “We asked the Italian people.” Even here we are at the limits of the grotesque. Some of my dear readers remember the general strikes to get the reform of the Senate, the sit-ins and mass marches to get the Senate autonomy, the collecting signatures to get the increase in the number of signatures needed to request a referendum or to propose a law by popular initiative? Just a few days ago, in the midst of a debate (or the little ‘argument that it was possible to do) in the Senate, only 3% of the Italian people believed that the reform of the Senate was a major problem. The truth then is not “asks of the Italian people,” but “asks of 3% of the Italian people.” It ‘a little’ different, is not it?
I could go on, but fortunately there is Marco Travaglio that keeps us updated on the government’s lies. I should point out that, contrary to the beliefs of the minister Woods and its approximate quotes from Amyntor Fanfani, politicians have always told lies. It’s part of the job. What’s new in this government, it is the impudence with which they are heralded as truth things more clearly and false certainties as the most far-fetched nonsense. And the stupidity or, more often, indifference, distrust, cynicism with which the people of the swallows. And the speed with which each of them forget these and others of them swallowed.
A inaugurate the new agile young Third Republic efficient fast we had the lesson of the ex cathedra clear prof. ex-captain Schettino, the University La Sapienza of Rome. Theme: management of panic. Memo: Berlusconi to make the rules for everyone, Schettino to explain how it handles the panic … Who is the next or the next? No matter, we Italians digest everything.
With the external thing is a bit ‘more complicated: in my own little I received two phone calls from England and one from France of friends who asked if the story of Schettino was true. I explained to him that yes, Italy has changed direction. It ‘not my fault if I can not do with a reason.
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