It seems to be understood that this round of elections as a whole marks
the beginning of the end of a long-lasting idyll between the right-winggovernment and the country. The comforting fact is that the consensus
for the largest party in the governing coalition has decreased in
absolute terms by 600 thousand votes, even if it has increased in
relative terms . It is a question of verifying whether this disaffection
is due to the particular type of election, that for the European
Parliament, or concerns the set of electoral behaviors and of
understanding in what way what has happened is interconnected with voter
turnout.
Even if local elections were voted in only part of the country, it seems
to be understood that the partial recovery of disaffection from
participation in the management of institutions concerns the concrete
activities of administering public interests.
The overall growth in local elections seems to signal a need for
concreteness in a country finally forced to deal with a progressive
deterioration in the standard of living, until now hidden by the
subdued, the unspoken, the illicit income, the fruit of widespread
illegality. The omertà, omissions, and the cunning and the small, but
the many crimes, the obvious illegalities that sow inequality,
especially towards the weakest, no longer support the weight of the
distortions of the system that the insistence of an economic policy, of
a progressive fiscal policy, of a social policy and above all
the economic weight of the war impose on the country.
In other words, in silence on the fact that the small entrepreneur
pollutes, that he leaves the waste from the building renovation done
illegally on the country roads to poison the fields and the air, the
possibility of continuing to commit my small building abuses; the fact
that I pay my work illegally, thus avoiding paying taxes and managing to
scrape together some subsidy, no longer compensates for the general
degradation of social relations and does not solve the problems of one's
own sustenance and those of the family, does not give prospects and
possibilities of a future emancipation, even if distant: one begins to
feel the need for something else.
Perhaps this is how the path of questioning begins for each of us, faced
with the absence of prospects for ourselves and our families, for those
around us, for the community in which each of us is immersed, against
our will.
It is a long and tiring path, a bumpy road to travel. The rediscovery of
responsibility and politics is a tiring choice, but we must begin to
walk in order to head towards a goal.
Government successes
After a year and a half of government in which the right has
administered the existing, in the wake of the economic policy set by the
Draghi government, or by the government of a technocrat who is the
expression of the elite of the European and international bureaucracy,
which this government claims to fight and hate, the chickens are coming
home to roost, and the negative effects of this day-to-day management of
power should be contained by successes in foreign policy that are more
so on paper and in the collective imagination, appropriately fueled by
the paid press, than in reality.
And here one of the characteristics of the exercise of power comes to
light: having a good press. To achieve this result, the government has
occupied public television and has used a backbone of hacks and the
press organs managed by three snakes, Sechi, Sallusti and Senaldi, who,
flanked and supported by a host of aggressive idiots and cheerful geese,
hammer public opinion from the printed press to the television networks.
building a narrative that describes a shining and triumphant leader,
whose value would be recognized internationally, a country that has
avoided disaster and is marching towards the best economic and social
performances, where the economy is growing, wealth and well-being are
increasing, the progressive fortunes of the nation are moving towards
the best prospects. This narrative is false and fallacious, as
demonstrated by the fact that the Prime Minister's frenetic activism in
foreign policy is more about image than substance, because in practice
she is unable to enter the European and international game, sidelined by
an exclusionary policy towards old and new fascists, implemented not
because they are, but because they are characterized by fragile and
non-existent policies from an economic and social point of view.
This aspect of the Italian government's policy will become clear in the
coming months, now that the budget has been opened, to which 15 billion
will be added that will have to be used to finance the maintenance of
the tax wedge for a year. To finance all this, privatizations and the
selling off of at least a part of the last family jewels will not be
enough, because it will be necessary to resort to a fiscal tightening
and, given the government's reluctance to tax the rich, selective cuts
by category will be carried out, in the full application of social
corporatism, and this can only produce divisions and oppositions among
the people affected by the measures. In other words, the social calm
ensured by the effects of the economic policy set by Draghi has come to
an end.
The price of inequality
The price of inequality has become increasingly greater, but the system
can hold up even when the crisis affects not only some, but also a large
part of society, because the poor can be repressed, kept in their place
by the police and social blackmail, but when wages are so low that they
put at risk the possibility of subsistence and when, even working, the
salary is so poor that it does not allow you to live, then a response is
necessary and this is because the economy of a country cannot support
itself exclusively on the dumping of the cost of labor, it needs
economic development policies, an industrial project, technological
innovation, a role and function for agriculture and food production, so
important for a country like ours.
On these levels the government is totally absent, it is imprisoned by
its ideological choices, it cannot give in on the minimum wage, on wage
policy, it cannot come to terms with social formations, with trade
unions, it cannot give in on the level of rights, guarantees,
protections that are so absent, especially in the face of a country
increasingly shocked by the continuous deaths at work, horrible, tragic,
cruel, as those that have occurred in recent days amply demonstrate,
where there is no respect for human life. Faced with what is happening,
it is no longer enough to say that there are class A workers and slaves
over whose bodies it is possible to pass with a tractor as if sucking
them into a machine or burning them with a flow of molten steel or aluminum.
It might seem strange to say, but the government is aware of this and,
not by chance, is putting in place initiatives of mass distraction, such
as the reform of justice, the implementation of differentiated autonomy,
that of the premiership, to divert the attention of the country, of the
parties, of the electorate towards institutional objectives, making them
arguments of a political competition transformed into a clash between
fan bases, between right and left, seasoned with a good deal of rampant
fascism that, offending the sensibilities of many, also becomes useful
as a weapon of mass distraction, even though it constitutes a very
serious problem.
Perhaps these facts are what are prompting the electorate, which, having
become aware of what is happening, is trying to overcome the disgust,
the revulsion, the refusal of compromising in politics, so that
dedicating oneself to the management of public affairs becomes not only
a moral duty, but a necessity for survival.
A program for the alternative
Even if the right's first reaction to the left's electoral success in
the administrative elections was to induce the president of the Senate
to declare that the electoral law that benefits the left must be
changed, it must look at its program and its proposals. Since the
fundamental problem is to find the resources necessary for the many
things that need to be done, and to end the war and avoid rearmament, it
is not only an ethical problem, but an economic and political one. In
fact, the wage issue must be addressed as a priority, providing
effective protection for work, decisively putting an end to deaths at
work, to undeclared and precarious work, to wages that are not enough to
live on even while working. It is necessary to intervene in the labor
market, regulating emigration. The solution to these problems is
inextricably linked to that of health protection and therefore to an
urgent strengthening of the health system to prevent one of the most
precious assets the country has from being dissolved.
Intervening on these priority aspects of the country's politics means
turning attention to education in parallel, preventing the degradation
of the school, defeating the triumph of ignorance of unlikely ministers
who have made this ministry a fiefdom for imbeciles, incompetents and
people without culture, who barricade themselves behind the valorization
of merit. But the country also has other urgent problems such as that of
assistance to minors, of effective economic and structural measures in
favor of birth rates, which at the same time have positive effects on
the professional and human fulfillment of women, on whom today the
activity of assistance and care falls, in the face of an increasingly
poor and absent welfare. We cannot leave to themselves the weakest
groups such as the elderly who today constitute the largest part of the
population, who must be supported not only at the pension level, but
also in terms of care and social role.
The program with which the left must re-propose itself to the attention
of the country and recover its consensus must be characterized by its
credibility, by its economic viability, by its role of redistribution of
wealth and social well-being, by cohesion policies that rebuild the
solidarity fabric of the country. Only in this way can the attack on the
Republic that is in the prime minister's program through its
institutional reforms be faced and defeated.
The Editorial Staff
https://www.ucadi.org/2024/06/30/la-fine-dei-giochi/
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