(Updated 19/09/2008)
Save the Democratic Party!
Wanted young executives ...
able to grow continuously
the relationship with the land and society who are able to re-evaluate
as the primary method for real and not fake
see and select the ruling class, who can maintain a responsible
with voters and members who are competent, rigorous, independent, loyal, humble and ambitious ...
Berlusconi's dream was shattered:
not to find a decent plan to save Alitalia, but to mimic Mrs. Thatcher or the miners Craxi escalator ... but there's more, he does not accept defeats ... Expect the next shot of the theater, this time mimicking the recent bailouts of his American friends
If the disappointment generated consensus
(Ilvo Diamonds - The Republic)
It 's a bit surprising that the disappointment, so widespread in society, does not engender confidence in government and in the first place in the premier. Yet in the past had always worked the equation: the more disappointed not consent to the ruler. So much so that disappointment had become one of the most effective techniques of opposition.
media accomplices, who made a kind of success, by mixing with other feelings of disappointment widely used in everyday language. Fear, uncertainty, anxiety, insecurity. So, to stay in this decade, the Italians have punished disappointed at first, Berlusconi and the center-right. Which has lost all elections intermediate, after 2001: local, regional, European. All. In order to recover - and to almost win back - in 2006, after a brief and intense campaign outstretched to pervert the course of disillusionment with Prodi and the center. Prior arousing mistrust towards them. How could they, the voters, especially the more moderate, and trust of the Communists, or neo ex does not matter, and their allies? Those who would raise taxes, on their first home and those who would open the door to criminals and immigrants: that is, the same, and those who would further widen the space of the state and reduced that of the private sector. They did not ... "Fear"?
Topics replicated with success in the brief of the second Prodi government. Not even two years of hard sailing and tired, then the shipwreck. In the murky waters of disappointment. Little is served by attempting to turn the page Veltroni, erase the past. A new party, a new strategy, by themselves alone! Without opposition without prejudice and antagonism, Berlusconi opponent never enemy. Too much disappointment retrospective. As to make unnecessary and counterproductive attempt to remove the past - along with Prodi.
Hence the landslide victory of Berlusconi, who survived the disappointment, emerged from a sea of \u200b\u200bdisappointment. And now, bright beacon in the fog of delusion. A feeling that, six months after the vote, it was not dissolved, but on the contrary, continues to grow. A gray mist and dense. Moreover, it leaves a good. The economic and financial crisis spills over. The prices are out of control. Fear of crime will not bend. Confidence in the future ... which way is the future? And then, no promise kept. Taxes? Do not fall. Alitalia? Sinks. Not even in football things are going well. The national team has lost to the Europeans. (Other than the World Cup of 2006, when Prodi was ...).
Yet, the relationship between the government and the country between Berlusconi and the electors is not affected. On the contrary, the levels of trust grow. It's raining, in fact, storm virtuous government. Edmondo Berselli, La Repubblica, said there is this reversal of the emergence of a form of political communication. Indeed a "format". Interpreted in the wake of the Knight, unsurpassed master, by some political actors with disabilities.
First, Brunetta, the persecutor of loafers nested in the public sector. Then, Gelmini, tamer of professors and teachers, unable to educate and discipline our children. Maroni, the Italian defender threatening invasion of foreigners and Roma. Finally, even Carfagna, hunting for prostitutes and clients, to be punished right on the street, a format that communicates complex issues simple, by customizing the fears and crises, through an easy target to hit, which reflect the common sense and move the flow of distrust and disappointment away by the government.
So the majority of Italians, grateful, rally around the government, which protects them from deviant minority professors, teachers, government, immigrants, whores. And by the pilots and the unions, guilty of the possible failure of Alitalia. They, not the politics that has ruled - and right - the fate of the national airline for years, decades. Beyond a reasonable reason. They, who, a few months ago, appeared to victims of the design of the center to sell out to foreigners, together with the company.
However, in addition to the communication format of the government, there is another explanation. And 'we're used to, accustomed to disappointment. Do not consider it an emergency, which is to blame, first, those who move the levers of government. But a normal situation, however unpleasant. As the fog in the Po Valley in winter and mosquitoes in summer. Italians: they can not be said to be disappointed. Whatever. Because no one has been able to heal the financial statements, lower taxes, boost the economy, reduce fear of crime. And if happen, do not realize it. Moreover, even if the crimes were down, the fear has grown the same. And if the crime rate in Italy is among the lowest in Europe, we remain the European country most fearful and disappointed. The most disheartened. Anyone who govern us. Berlusconi and Prodi.
So, after trying in vain to reverse this trend by voting, changing government and majority, the Italians have resigned. So, now that the disappointment has penetrated everywhere: in homes, families in the streets, TV programs, in the indices that appear bulletins of war in estimates of the market, production and consumption: the disappointment that is everywhere today, the Italians have stopped it as an accident. Consider a disturbance lasting a need. That is not the case to charge someone. Besides, who was first made better? E 'managed to give us confidence? To make us happy? So, needless to twist our anger, our disappointment on the leader today. Teniamocelo. Be satisfied. All the more so if he can comfort us and give us scapegoats, suggesting that it is not our fault (let alone his own).
But if the disappointment is no longer a tool to discredit the government, nor a method of opposition, then - Excuse the tautology - to oppose the disappointment is not necessary. Not only that, but it becomes harmful. A boomerang. To
opposition should, instead, push the disappointment away. Generate hope, new illusion. But hope is an attribute of the future. And the future, for now, it's just a hope. Pardon: an illusion, that few persist to grow.
(September 19, 2008)
EUROPEAN: D'ALEMA, BERLUSCONI WANTS LAW TO PART
(News from The Republic)
With the new electoral law for the European with the 5 percent barrier and blocked lists "Berlusconi manipulates rules of democracy for personal and partisan. This reveals a culture profoundly undemocratic, authoritarian culture from a master of the ironworks. "said Massimo D'Alema, in Omnibus on La7, and added:" It is not clear precisely why 'should be imposed at EU level a threshold' higher than that that there is' a national level. It 'a decision that responds to need in part: Berlusconi wants to punish the UDC. "As for the abolition of preferences, and D'Alema'" a brutal abduction empower citizens. E 'intolerable shrinking democratic: there are few people who decide everything, which form the elected assemblies and in this way, citizens are increasingly removed' from the institutions. "Again, according to Democratic Party leader, are the interests to prevail particularistic Prime Minister: "It is the head of a party that is not 'a party, but an assemblage of diverse forces and fears that the conflict with the preferences among these different souls will manifest in the light of the sun. Cosi' he wants to decide, 'cause that allows him to ensure the shares from a distribution determined to table
Populism and decisions of the Berlusconi government causes more disasters:
What can we expect from a party where they say living former socialist to express a political left, former Communists like Bondi that invokes the thought of Antonio Gramsci as a cultural reference, a former radical who see a space to express liberalism and secularism, members of Communion and Liberation who felt that that party is in harmony with the bishops, Alemanno and La Russa that recall the 'good side' of fascism? All mediated by a father who wants to master please everyone. And by that great showman and craftsman, he knows to be in line with the majority of the country, the answer is: very effective and frequent media spots, which are the realizations inefficient, and often mess with the taste of buffalo. More or less the opposite of what made the center-left. But the people now takes the bait and we do not just have to ponder ... in anger. The following are examples:
Young killed in a locked Milan :
you imagine the strombazzature of TV, newspapers, and if certain politicians in this tragic event the parties were reversed?
Alitalia grants and favors for friends cordate, take it or leave for workers:
Awards on the ropes: Breaking and changing rules at will, restoring a monopoly, giving the consortium the advantage of exclusivity and possibility of achieving strong gains in the future; Rescue Air One
Striking workers: six thousand redundancies, pilots halved, cut wages by 25 percent, including those from twelve hundred euro, to be borne by the community, that all Italian workers, and a billion half of inherited liabilities The company celebrated
superministro Tremonti, ignoring the problem contracts, has proven to be a fool, trying to foist a hoax like this ...
grand finale with the assistance of the Piper decision: "I got it."
Maybe there will be a happy ending, but for whom? For friends of the climbers who will lay it on thick still give something extra, perhaps for the drivers and their assistants, the other will leave the crumbs. The subjects
tawny, lighter in the pockets, hypnotized by the zero tolerance (but in fact produce fake results), applaud enchanted ...
DDL Carfagna (prostitution) is still a tricky spot
The spirit of the law is to curb prostitution, but allowed only in enclosed places
and delete it from the eyes of the people.
In fact, give the impression that has been eradicated.
private vices and public virtues.
In line with many voters.
Recipients, once again hypocrite gratification of this Government.
The Minister for Calendar (but not the stink of those who trade their bodies?) Has invented a law that does not send anyone to jail, but clog the judicial machinery, multiplying and creating unnecessary processes.
While the real problems of this country: wages, pensions, development, prices, employment, precarious
become a low priority, if not systematically ignored.
Here is the new class struggle
(Piero Ignazi - L'Espresso)
A fight is no longer the 'last' but the 'first' supported by the government of Berlusconi Giulio Tremonti. When you think of the class struggle imagine crowds of blue-collar or noisy crowds of peasants and pinafores shabby - but also composed and dignified as in the famous painting by Pellizza Volpedo - marching to demand bread and work. This image has faded like an old photograph, refers to an ancient world that you are losing track. There are those actors: the proletariat is fringed in a thousand different components and the 'last' of the company reflect a kaleidoscope of ethnicities, traditions and cultures who can not be bunched up in a homogeneous social class.
But if it was dissolved without the class struggle, strikes and picketing in the proletariat who had his spine, does not make it disappear. Has shifted 180 degrees. He suffered a Copernican revolution. It is no longer led by the 'last', but by the 'first'. They are the holders of economic and political resources to take the initiative to maintain and strengthen the positions acquired at the expense of others. The offensive no longer passes through the ancient streets of contract, less and less relevant in terms of numbers and more more residual to define the balance of power (even if the attempt to undermine collective bargaining in favor of individual bargaining indicates a clear line of attack), but for the public money, for the marriage of interests between corporations and economic power Political celebrated by the Berlusconi government.
This is shown with one of the first measures of the center-right government. One of many, but exemplary for his surgical precision: the elimination of tracking the fees of professionals, an effective tool against tax evasion and money laundering introduced by the Prodi government.
The message could not be clearer: we know who are 'the our 'and act now in defense of their interests. And, conversely, we know who the 'enemies': the employees, especially the public sector, who vote on the left. Against them has been unleashed an offensive drumming focusing on moral discredit to the point of Jam them the label of 'lazy'. It is not enough. While the Minister of Education - who knows nothing of school and university but in return he has earned as a lawyer in Reggio Calabria - decreed the expulsion of tens of thousands of teachers (of course the drones) in the U.S. presidential candidates are competing to see who promises more action in the education system and comes to declare Barack Obama quote at Convention democratic "enroll legions of teachers by paying them better even if it means raising taxes."
All this because you still believe in the American system in education, knowledge and expertise as vehicles for professional success, and we have culture, and those who work in education, are treated with disdain and poorly tolerated, as a useless trinket. Basically just be a beautiful showgirl to become a minister, because they consume the eyes on the books and the computer? This is the real message, subliminal and therefore authentic, the appointment of Mara Carfagna. The rest is incidental.
The class struggle by the government has set a precise objective: to undermine that little is left of the unionized working class, also lacks a guide to the challenge, defending the self-employed by any regulatory mechanisms and tax return for the redistribution of income for them started in the previous Berlusconi government (and unwisely accepted even by same superministro Tremonti) and, finally, squeeze the middle class to offset the benefits to the rest of society - and for those who have doubts about just read the speech, disturbing to say the least, by Laura Plumley, 'A decision-making (a little) compassionate ', the latest issue of the magazine' the Mill '.
The defense of corporate interests implies a draining of resources from the employees, because if you remove the ICI to the homes of the rich, abandons the fight against tax evasion (the collapse of the VAT revenue goes to show how self-employment will be immediately adapted to the new climate), we refinanced the Pharaonic projects like the bridge over the Strait, and they charge up to us citizens, contrary to the 'Tax-Payers' as they say in the Anglo-Saxon countries, the losses of Alitalia, leaving the profits to the happy few, we must somehow find the money. That is why the government takes sides in the front row alongside the corporate interests against the employee in a new version of the class struggle.
(September 12, 2008)
Populism and the past that returns
(GIAN ENRICO RUSCONI - THE PRESS)
I
the country has lost its bearings. No one is more real. Stubborn opposing political factions held hostage politics.
The class of intellectuals was dissolved in individuals or in small groups. Not only has devalued the status of the right or left, there are more conservatives and liberals, but has lost its sense of what holds this country together. No one knows more than name a reason, so convincing to all, while paying attention to the legitimate differences.
The national history is seized with impunity by amateurs and mystifying. Now you can say everything about everything - from 8 September to terrorism the Red Brigades. What matters is the sound media that covers all other items and can count on the exhaustion of serious scholars. The seriousness has become boring in this country is unacceptable and incompatible with the permanent talk show. There
around a heavy air decisions. In words, at least. It starts from the top of Ministers, busy making proclamations, which did not really know what will follow. It affects the amateurism and irresponsibility of ministers who speak (thinking really just the media) as if everything depended on their words.
As if the school - for example - were not a large complex institution propped up by thousands of professionals who have their own expertise and experience, to be taken into account. No. They are treated as zealous executors of the decisions fell from above.
But where is this class Ministerial checked out? From which culture? From the historic liberal right? From Fascism recycled democratically? Heavens no - it is argued now - do not begin with the ideological pedigrees. What matters is to "make order" against the "disorder of the left" - as the Knight.
tidy, clean, discipline, control. If necessary, put in jail illegal immigrants, thugs stage, street prostitutes. As if they were the same. Of course a company
orderly and safe is a collective value. And never stop to criticize the Left for having her snatch for misunderstanding "doing good" this value. For this reason not only lost the last election, but now has lost his head. In fact they do not know how to react. Each initiative of order, "ministerial or governmental, stutters and divide.
But what are the values \u200b\u200bof the new right populist who claims to be above all pragmatic, anti-ideological? At first glance, are the traditional values \u200b\u200bof "God, Country and Family." Of course, the place of God now prefers to speak of "Christian roots" and the idea of \u200b\u200bcritical homeland requires some adjustment, only the family seems to keep the old connotations. But it is a pure fiction, if we look at actual behavior and not to statements made "to please the Church" (Berlusconi's words).
In fact the real key to today's political culture is the term "populism" that should not be understood in a general way, but appropriate. The democratic populism has four ingredients: a people-voters tend to express themselves in a style tends plebiscite with a ratio of false immediacy with the leader, the dominance of personal leadership, rewarded quality 'charismatic', a party system with a simplified replacement of political elites that support the immediate leader, the role decisive and irreplaceable role of the media in line. By-products of this situation are the iperpersonalizzazione policy and its spectacular.
Voters choose or are directed to the leader type decisionistico with expectations for the intolerance of the excessive mediation parliamentary party and the corresponding differences.
Hence the activism we see every day. And the populist measures made just to satisfy an immediate desire for order: violence against prostitution as a stage, either.
This treatment undergone by the country has a high cost: the lack of a true solution of critical problems and structural (Justice to the school) that can not be solved in decisionistico-style populist. It is necessary because a strategy capable of great real consensus, which is compatible with democratic norms of the majority / minority. Otherwise the country is broken to the core. Lose orientation. This is what is happening.
Exactly fifteen years ago many of us have wondered if it ceased to be a nation. Then there were the first aggressive provocation of anti-national league, the strong concerns about globalization and the newly discovered unexpected new visibility of immigrants. In comparison, today the problems were relatively controllable. What was not expected, however, was the implosion inside the country are seeing today. Yes, perhaps, we are ceasing to be a nation.
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Received and Published:
Dear friend, dear friend
We are writing to report a initiative that may seem technical question of internal procedures of the party but, as often happens, hiding issues of great substance. In this sense it should be noted that the primaries are "the procedure" on which the PD has built, with pride, its identity.
The first regional delegates, Giovanni Bachelet of the Directorate of PD, and the founders of the Democratic Party have joined the initiative. With this message we also invite you to join and to move this message.
In short, in Lazio, by the end of September, a special committee, will submit to the Regional Assembly's Party Democratco a draft charter to be voted on.
We believe that this is a good opportunity to correct some of the mistakes made in recent months to build the Democratic Party. Ever since the first national assembly in Milan, is an established practice to be voted documents and devices designed in confined areas and with no participation. Similarly, it is now established practice to determine in advance and, again, separately and not completely transparent, the names of leaders who are then voted at the meeting. This is no possibility of competition and contestability in stark contrast to the national offices established in the statute. The lack of transparency has already translated several times in the absence of efficiency, as demonstrated in the two events, national and then regional, scheduled for 2 days and then had narrowed to 1 day with image damage, inside and outside, for all parity.
regional states have the opportunity to raise participation and transparency by including additional provisions of the general provisions contained in the national statute. If we
that the Democratic Party is really a great work of renewal of the policy, then a genuine movement of information is the basis for unlock old practice, transfer power to citizens revitalize democracy.
The letter is in
http://pd4c.wordpress.com/
seeks to give substance to these reflections.
We ask you not to lose to sign and return the road to October 14, 2007, to build that in changing the Democratic Party to change Italy.
Buceti Giuliano, Alessandro Gallo
Why we will never have an Obama or McCain
(Ilvo DIAMONDS - THE REPUBLIC)
A CUSTOM impersonal and irresponsible features Italian politics. A media democracy, full of faces and names known and visible. That, however, has reduced and almost abolished the ability of voters to express choices and preferences "personal." Now that the construction of political and parliamentary representation is something almost exclusive parties, reduced to a narrow circle of elites and centralized. Yet, almost twenty years ago, the story had begun differently. The crisis of the political system had been sanctioned, it is true, by the referendum of 1991, which reduced to a single electoral preferences.
But it was, then, to resize a partitocratico system, in which preferences were a device to control the company and at the same time, an exchange of power between groups. Afterwards, we went to the electoral systems that personalize the relationship between voters and elected officials. First locally, with the direct election of mayors, presidents of the province and, therefore, of the Region. A rapid process of presidenzializzazione widespread, that the electoral system of the House and Senate went along by the majority of the college, which makes it more immediate and transparent relationship between parliamentarians, citizens and territory.
That model, we are aware, did not reduce the fragmentation of political parties, let alone the gap between the political system and society. He, however, marked a break, at least on a symbolic level. Parties against presidents. Summary of the opposition between old and new, as noted by Mauro Calise.
Moreover, the parties have, themselves, all custom. From 1994 to present. Dall'archetipo unsurpassed, Silvio Berlusconi, to Walter Veltroni. Forza Italy Ulivo. The Democratic Party to the People of Freedom. Passing through the various lists. To limit the main Pannella and Bonino List, the List of Peter. But the National Alliance, before it joins the PDL, although possessed of identity and organization, a subject was identified with its leader, Gianfranco Fini. And nell'Udc, now, the C evokes the initial Casini.
Personalization is, of course, emphasized the use of the media. Television, in particular, gave the parties a face, a familiar image. Also in this phase. The ministers appear to the public the most popular characters are characterized, which read in fiction of success. Two above all. Brunetta, the avenger of citizens against the servants of the idle state (the state, in fact).
Mariastella Gelmini, protective parents and pupils by teachers unable or restoration of lost virtue: good conduct, good manners (the aprons), good teachers (only). While in opposition, across a very broad success Antonio Di Pietro, who stars as the guarantor of legality against misuse of the policy, and above all against Berlusconi (which is the compendium). But Beppe Grillo. Actor of the protests.
Moving from side to participate in the communication, it should be noted that the construction of the Democratic Party and, first, the Olive Tree, has taken place through the primaries. A rite of Mass to celebrate the choice of leader. Prodi, Veltroni.
However, for some time, the personalization of politics is with the depersonalization of voting choice. Tax, as regards the parliamentary elections, the electoral law in force in autumn 2005. A proportional coalition with premium and blocked lists. That is, no preference.
The bill, hastily invented by the center to counter the success of the center announced (especially favored by the majority), has, in fact, strengthened the central leadership of "all" parties. Allowing them to control and condition the candidature and, accordingly, the elect. While the candidates broke the tie with voters. So much so that the candidates have almost disappeared from the territory during the election campaign, confined, largely, to appear alongside the national leaders during major events.
The problem should have and could have been reduced through the appeal in the primaries. That, however, it has become very intermittent. Almost absent. The Democratic Party has used the primaries with caution. Avoiding, however, to make them too open and competitive. Nationally, however, are served at the investiture of leading pre-destined.
While the election of the Constituent Assembly and representative bodies at local level has been constrained by the need to ensure a balance between components in addition to monitoring (and maintenance) of leaders. Even in the choice of candidates for local office (mayors or presidents), the primaries are regarded with suspicion and treated with caution. Outsiders can not emerge. An Obama or McCain Noantri. No need to wait.
The question comes up again, today, in relation to the electoral system being designed for the forthcoming European elections. Expected, of course, a minimum threshold (3-4 percent), to reduce fragmentation. In addition, a larger number of constituencies. Finally: the abolition of preferences. On which there is no agreement. But, undoubtedly, do not mind - indeed, like - to parties in general. Even to the majors: PDL and the Democratic Party. Because it allows them to regulate and distribute, with algebraic precision and without risk, the places between the components (below) party. An Fi and, on one side. DS and the Margherita, on the other. That still resist and act. In addition to other currents.
We would reiterate that we are not fans of the vote. Memory of when we were a method of exchanging patronage. But suspicious that arouse fear in the parties, now that they no longer have a mass base and narrowing to a restricted circle of the summit. The contrast between the emphasis on personalization and the increasing depersonalization of the vote summarizes what is fictitious, today, the opposition between political parties and presidents. As the presidents identify parties 'closed', whose ruling class reproduces endogamy. Internally. Without competition, but, rather, co-optation from above.
This model, however, is consistent with the biography of the center. Invented, written and interpreted by a sovereign: Silvio Berlusconi. (This was discussed a lot in the recent conference of the Italian Society of Political Science, University of Pavia). But the center, and especially the Democratic Party - for history, culture and sociology - have no prospects without cultivating the relationship with the land and society. Without re-evaluate the primaries as a way "real" consultation and selection of its leaders. Without giving voters the opportunity to express - no way - their personal preferences. Without limiting the elect a responsible relationship with voters. Better than you think the Democratic Party in the forthcoming European elections. That, as always, will have political effects, first "national".
(September 7, 2008)
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