Once upon a time, long ago, a man with a great big head, rich and happy, always looked at all those around him pouring huge smiles.
was also a little chap very vain, and every opportunity was good to touch up here and there his great big face and his short little body, so that the large mirror of the house to postpone a satisfactory image.
But soon he realized that no matter how upset he could never touch all its appearance to conform to his expectations.
The little man, named Silvio, became sad, bitter. It was more often sitting in front of large mirror with disconsolate air, trying desperately to that world reflected the reality that not much wanted. Me
her sadness did not take long to turn into anger CONRO reality on this side of the mirror, against his loved ones, his kingdom, and against those who surrounded him.
The big smile that often furrowed his face took on a devilish turn and looks, once friendly, turned into withering glances, addressed to the world only ever through the mirror's reflection.
Silvio had an idea: if the mirror would not reflect an appropriate image of him and the world (who also had to be there, somewhere beyond the reflecting surface), then he would transform the reality on this side the mirror to make it more similar to his desire, his world and his Silvio ideal. All
believed that Silvio had lost his mind. His demands became more and more absurd, the logic that was to follow their arguments were patently illogical, impossible, as if to reason backwards.
Only someone among his subordinates began to whisper corridors and in the corners now that Silvio was gone. No, not with your head. There was not anymore. Silvio complained that sitting in the large bedroom was just a picture, a reflection, and that the real Silvio was gone, he could realize his dream by going beyond the mirror ...
And so it happened that the world's most popular prime minister, according to its own surveys loved by 75% of Italians, the protagonist of the parable of the more spectacular political and personal history, the man with the perpetual smile on his lips, was faced with an image of himself that does not like him, he did not liked, but could not change because he was a prisoner of his own world, was in the mirror and could not get out. Cameramen
of trust, living friends, journalists hired ... all over, because they turn the stage on which scenes of today could not choose him. He's got dragged Veronica Lario, the wife, the woman who stands beside him for thirty years now. \u0026lt;Not A person who is not bene>. It falls on the stage. The king naked.
Silvio did not give up, struggles, screaming against the mirror, is about equal to a company to climb to sixth grade (on mirrors) to stir everything again and turn every thing in its favor. It requires, as if it were a principle or divine law, that each of us passively accept his speeches (and its silences). Prepares home a truth upon which claims to have a monopoly, with no contradictory questions, reconstructions of the same facts even though he can not contradict. He curls up on the couch in the living room to cozy Who and once again we propina this concoction of his fantasies and half-truths, phrases and images to honey, not realizing that, paradoxically, is getting ready to censor the "gossip" columns from the right a week of its specialized Mondadori IN GOSSIP.
Meanwhile, public opinion is wavering, and concern, is indignant, asks important questions. Answers that Berlusconi can not and does not want to give. But to continue to lie not draw off the hook. Especially when a whole country to want to hear the truth out of the mouths of those who govern. The international community
echoes and already provides a near fall of Berlusconi.
What is not so unthinkable: Berlusconi is now, as he writes Scalfari, a "head of government blackmail and blackmail," representative of "an extensive system of power and collusion" ( LaRepubblica June 21, 2009). E 'is therefore legitimate to pose the problem of a political solution that takes into account the rules that govern the system, on which is the President of the Republic to ensure:
In case of resignation of the prime minister, even if accompanied by his request dissolution of Parliament, it is the head of state to examine the possibility exists that most expresses another prime minister who can form or another majority in Parliament. Only if both options prove to be unworkable, the head of state be dissolved. In this case it is possible that the Quirinale designates a figure that institutional lead the country to the polls. (Eugenio Scalfari, LaRepubblica June 21, 2009).
right. But the question remains: Berlusconi will resign? And most importantly, what to expect in the post really, how could it be an Italy without Berlusconi, an Italy beyond the mirror? Veronica Lario
few weeks ago he said something that could give us an idea: "Berlusconi pursues the spirit of Napoleon, is not a dictator. The real danger is that after he gets the dictatorship, because politics is dying. "
policy is dying. There is no doubt that public opinion slowly disappears (except for the last flickers of recent life), resulting in a precipitous decline in civil, legal, moral and economic. Every day in Parliament or at local level, pass laws liberticide and xenophobic. Meanwhile, the old emperor works for the disaster to come after himself. It allows everything from the applications of facial tissues and escorts, because despise their own people to capacity. The people on the other hand now is so saturated with the whole situation has got even despise himself.
If such an attitude of disgust and spasmodic worship leader is strengthened in a scene in which democracy is for years under enormous stress (in the physical-mechanical), we would be faced with something like a cultural background of the whole country-system, with the opening of a flaw in the political fabric of the Nation , which quickly expanded into an abyss, with disastrous consequences.
You can counteract this?
First we need real opposition. Certainly the recent elections seem to show a landslide victory of the center-right. In fact, the overall picture shows a country cut in half crosswise, and strongly polarized between two camps. Of course, not an Italy bipartisan, non- yet, but certainly an Italy bipolar. Here is the fertile ground on which the opposition has to take the field, serious, real and credible alternative.
data, it is true, do not appear encouraging. Though. There is one though. Let's look carefully. Franceschini collecting the 75% of voters trust the Democratic Party, as well as 59% of the voters of IDV and 50% of voters RC-SL and UDC. Not bad.
The electorate of the Democratic Party for its part continues to be frustrated and disillusioned, it is true.
But there's more. A Franceschini you look in general with respect. Although it is modest, or perhaps because of it (You know, these days, sobriety is a rare gem). Franceschini also does not form. Neither Berlusconi nor by antiberlusconismo. Speak clearly and understandably. Berlusconi himself who defines a "work in television." Finally able to speak without other leaders to surround him, ready to contradict him and to raise their voices.
I guess that's encouraging as a starting point.
Secondly, there we are. All of us. We are called to defend democazia, in a battle of ideas with no holds barred, morality, or justice-. Think of the delicate relationship between law and consent, between legality and democracy. Democracy, as has already been said in previous posts, is not only consent, attempts to show how the prime minister - even if it can not possibly ignore. At the base it has a set of rules without which the consent becomes despotism and subversion. It should therefore be exercised in the manner and within the limits established by the Constitution (art.II).
And of course the consensus can not be used as a shield or purification by the laws and legitimate criticism of a minority.'s Why it is improper that Berlusconi appeals to the people, deliberately ignoring the nomos Basileus, the supremacy of law as "one sovereign."
Just like when the people gathered in city squares of Attica, with the rulers at the center, visible from all closed and no longer in the ancient Persian palaces.
And when, as in the case of Berlusconi, the past business and personal happiness became the basis on which to build his political charisma, must be able to account for everything. No escape nor shame, accepting and dealing with the inconsistent.
If Berlusconi thinks he can exorcise the contradictions and critical thinking as to exorcise the current crisis, optimism, shouting to the wind, this is the inevitable symptom of the fact that it is now past the other side of the mirror, because it is ready to accept one reality, its really domesticated.
But the world out there. The world that Berlusconi has not bought. The world where the influence of the king has no power, influence that may well soon capsize, be transformed into its opposite. As in a mirror.
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