On today's Republic: The Politics
as a commodity in the era of Berlusconi, A. Schiavone
While the careful and calibrated away Tremonti is adding another boost - decisive? - The landslide system of government launched by the center after the victory of 2008, the Prime Minister does not seem to be able to do is talk to the country of communists and magistrates, not the crisis from which you can not come out, not young which has not been able to offer perspective, not working and production in the world that awaits us, but only of the obsessions that have never ceased to accompany him, and at other times he was able to transform into words for a mass mobilization of emotional so inconclusive as victorious.
In fact, in addition to its ghosts, but there is another theme that takes these days Berlusconi: his own "recruitment drive" of MPs from any source, in an attempt to give depth to a small majority until 'inconsistency. Err, if paid at the obstinacy with which to explain all this effort is repeated with only the desperation of the last hour, with a strategic deficit that does not allow any other way of salvation in what remains of what had been (it seems ages ago) a massive majority. In short, with a contingency of the moment.
Instead, there is something deeper that turns nell'accanimento on this goal. Something that concerns "structurally" to Berlusconi: not just to his grueling, risky epilogue to that kind of endless "Way of the Cross" which is putting Italian democracy, but concerns from the outset that the original character of that experience, although now only in the final collapse, appears in full light.
These two elements, namely online.
The first is the idea policy - the choices and behaviors that influence and determine - as a commodity, and not as rules and procedures, like simple exchange, and not as a method and as a set of principles and values \u200b\u200bare not negotiable. If you are accustomed to thinking that all that matters - the entirety of our lives - passing through the market, if everything can be bought and sold, as has its (fair) price, because this should not also cover the 'Parliamentary field? If politics as such, itself, does not appear other than as a "product" to promote and to place, because the transaction may not involve the review and the vote of this or that subject? It is not to invoke the existence of ancient changed, because there is something radically new in practice Berlusconi: his represent themselves as absolutely normal, physiological condition as of politics.
is clear that in a similar way of thinking is overwhelmed distinguish capital, constitutive of modernity: that between ethics, politics and economics. But this is not so possessed and poisoned the late fruit of an irreversible decline: it is part, however, Berlusconi's adventure of the genetic code, a "normal" deformed that you tried for almost two decades to impose Italy, shouted by millions of television sets. It is the very soul of quell'ipermercatismo without measure and without limits that has been the heart of the message that the employer (even before the political) Berlusconi has turned Italy from the beginning - reversing the conflict of interest in its most effective credential (see who they are and Where I come!) - trying to pass it off as the announcement of a great liberal revolution. It is a style that can not find his most apt metaphor-the "recruitment drive", in fact - if not elsewhere in the world of football, the most devastated by un'anomia marketism pushed to the monstrous.
The crisis has swept away the material conditions of those claims, and we are beginning to understand how much more of us need not be broken up fury of the acquisitive that there was enhanced. But it still survives as a toxin ideological abdication as ethics, not least when such resignation to a "normality", of course, that would realistically no alternative. In this collapse as a bad lesson, unfortunately, our recent cross predispositions old. Healing will not be easy.
The second element of which was said to regard what could be defined as the continuous process of disarticulation of the parties (including her) as a permanent feature of the Berlusconi. Again, we are faced with something organic, not accidental or contingent. The choice of the acquisition of individual MPs instead the negotiations with the respective sides does nothing but extend that relationship of trust between the people and personalistic and its leader, typical of Berlusconi's plebiscite, the land itself to the sphere of electoral parliamentary reports: to carry it, so to speak, to the polls rooms. Memberships do not count, it is not the mandate from the voters, when the leader is to call: count only the direct relationship with him - it matters little that is explicitly mediated by money, or another type of exchange. The parties (including his) formations are inherently useless in this dynamic, and indeed for Berlusconi and always have been. But it goes only so it is out of the modern representative democracy, because it replaces the representation of social interests articulated personalistic of the pure relationship with the elected leader, called to express them all. If the PDL has a soul, its executives should begin to reflect themselves. What to expect afterwards? But maybe someone is already beginning to do so.
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