Saturday, June 21, 2008

Are Gerberpuffs Healthy

The Caiman Bite - C. Maltese

is a bit 'naive or very, surprised that Berlusconi has returned to Cayman. If there is a person true to herself, beyond any human temptation to doubt or boredom, this is the Knight. It was so long before the descent into politics, with its subversive nature, authoritarian paternalism, love the short cut demagogic and mocking contempt for each counter-democratic, beginning with the judiciary and independent journalism, the intolerance for constitutional rules, the school learned of the P2. The problem has never been how much and how it can change Berlusconi, who never changes. Rather, what has changed and as Italy, which in the last fifteen years has changed a lot. Thanks in part to the enormous media power of the premier. Every time that Berlusconi has won Palazzo Chigi tried to force the constitutional order and the first thing he violently attacked the judiciary. He did it in 1994 with the Biondi decree, the first act of government in 2001, when the emergency decrees of justice were introduced even before receiving the trust and today. With an escalation of violence in tone and, even more, in contents of the measures. The package justice now is the most subversive and Cirami Schifani of the award, in turn, more subversive "clean slate" of '94. But the growing strength of the twist imposed by Berlusconi to democratic structures, public reaction has been accompanied by a weaker and weaker. In '94 the revolt against the "save-thieves" crippled by a government now intended to last a few months. In 2001, the "Girotondo" inaugurated a season of movement, with millions of people in the streets, which were translated from the first year in a series of heavy electoral defeats for center-right majority, also overwhelmingly in Parliament. The third time, this, in the presence of an even more dramatic attempt to blow up the pillars of the judiciary independent, the reaction is very weak. The opposition, set aside the illusion of dialogue, heralds a season of struggles, but not now, in autumn. The so-called civil society seems to have disappeared from the scene. The magistrates are the only ones to revolt vehemently, but they seem isolated, at least in the polls. Almost defend their corporation and the rights and freedoms of all, just as they designed the fathers of the Constitution. Here the matter is that what happened to Berlusconi (all), but what has happened to the country. We really have become a "a little country 'Bulgarian', as we missed the demiurge few days ago? The answer, unfortunately, is yes. In this quarter of a century has not changed Berlusconi, Italy has changed a lot and worse, the civil and social fabric is fraying, and common sense was modeled on the authoritarian instincts. Many feel that talk in offices, in bars, on the beaches today, with everyone and everything, whether it's immigration or justice, civil rights such as religion, trade union or Europe, in Italy in the '94 would have been unimaginable. The Berlusconi has gone from the belly of a country where democracy has never been carried through, for a thousand reasons (reasons of right and left), but now has spread to all parts of the country and came to the brain. The genetic mutation of the Italian society is obvious to anyone who looks from outside. Even in the superficial aspects of the skin: a people we had never been "obnoxious", as it is today. More seriously, the return of Berlusconi to power and its first and devastating releases have evoked ghosts of the worst on the international scene. It is, however, to see if the "Italian case" is that even for the Italians. If public opinion still exist that have prevented these reagents Democrats in '94 and in 2001 the drift, more or less soft, to a regime. The signals are contradictory, the game is still on. Certainly, in recent decades the impact force of Berlusconi's populism has been growing, as well as taking on increasingly large parts of society. It is not just power of television or publishing, but a genuine cultural hegemony. And surprisingly, the opposition, former students of Gramsci, still, after so long, do not include the mechanisms and scope of the strategy in place. Other than the "long wave" of craxiana memory. They also, unfortunately, never change. We were deceived (again) to turn Berlusconi in a statesman, offering a table of negotiations. Delude themselves (again) be able to resist the policy of "hands off" and fade away in the red regions, which are already pink and could eventually end up gray or black. Waiting for better times. There are better times for the opposition. Here and now must find the courage of strong proposals and alternatives to the dominant single thought, inventions capable of provoking debate and thus pierce the leaden hegemony "Bulgarian" governmental agenda. Should be coming any ideas, even many, one day, to awaken public opinion by democratic hypnotic stupor with which he follows in the steps ahead of Berlusconi. The same hypnotic stupor that captures the prey moves in front of the caiman. That in the end, attacks.

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