He thinks that the war in Ukraine could have been avoided by respecting the Minsk agreements or, in any case, by meeting the needs of Russian-speaking Ukrainians, already in 2014, the date of the actual beginning of hostilities, with compromise solutions guaranteed by the great powers. He thinks that Europe, as the great Giovanni Amendola said of Italy, “we don’t like it as it is”, because the most important decisions in the EU are taken by a technocratic eliteoutside of any democratic logic.
He thinks that globalization is not only made of blessings but also of curses at least for the many victims who pay with their jobs and the loss of status for the advantages of low prices enjoyed by many others. He thinks that the alternative, in terms of economic policy, is not between the unlimited freedom of the market and autarchic closure (fascist and communist) but that, depending on the circumstances, it is necessary to develop strategies that reconcile, in some way, economic freedom and social security.
He thinks that, in bioethics, as in other fields, it is customs that make the laws and not the laws that make customs. He thinks that anti-fascismeighty years after the fall of the regime be an indecent political card if used to demonize the opponent. He thinks that having on the coffee table a small bronze bust of the Duce or Stalin (the one that a post-communist assessor of a Ligurian government of several years ago had) is equivalent to a harmless nostalgia not different from that of the living room of Nonna Speranza (Loreto stuffed with straw and the bust of Alfieri, of Napoleon, the framed flowers, the good things in bad taste).
Yet, for the liberals of our time, those who think like this are “the internal enemy to be defeated”. Yes, the term “enemy” is not a slip of the pen. Angelo Panebianco, author of the editorial that appeared on Corriere della Sera yesterday, he does not speak of political opponents, with whom one can legitimately disagree (and personally not all the “thoughts” listed above convince me) but of “anti-system formations” (from The Pen to Melenchon), unfortunately “strong as they have never been”. Long live Macronso, and his sacred union (which also includes Melenchon’s voters, but wasn’t Stalin part of the anti-fascist coalition?) which for the moment has managed to stop the black wave! By now the electoral confrontation is a civil war in which it is not the weapons that decide but the ballot boxes.
Don’t ask an old liberal, like me, a reader of Tocqueville and Berlin, to resign himself. For me the millions of votes of Bardella and those of Melenchon are not mass damnationis but they express needs, concerns, legitimate fears that must be taken into account. As did the DC of De Gasperi and Scelba, who neutralized the right, understanding their fears. As, in his own way, did Silvio Berlusconi by clearing An.
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