A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI #186 - The end of the games (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

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-wing 
government 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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