Dear Director,
I read in the newspaper that you edit with Sallusti two emblematic pieces of news of the ideological madness that has affected the left in all its branches. The first concerns the definitive acquittal of Berlusconi from the untenable accusation that he had business relations with the mafia, mediated by his friend Dell’Utri. The second reports that the self-referential Ranucci, with the support of Schlein, attributes the climate of hatred that generated the attack that destroyed the cars he owned to the newspapers financed by Angelucci. Two stories of ordinary madness. If the crime had happened in Sallusti they would have dusted off the «Cui prodest?» of ancient memory. They are two stories of ordinary madness supported by the poisonous “Elly-thought”. Therefore I decided to take an antidote by buying the latest essays by quantum physicists Tonelli and Rovelli. Do you think he did well?
Paolo Simone
Turin
Dear Paolo,
the Italian political reality, to understand it, now requires the tools of the mechanics of paradoxes. We are in a country where anyone on the right is regularly humiliated, ghettoized, criminalized, and it doesn’t matter whether they have governed Italy for years or are simply publishing a newspaper: for certain ideological circles, the stigma of infamy is automatic.
The truth, however, is that this is an old and worn-out strategy. It consists in not fighting the opponent with ideas, but in demonizing him, reducing him to a grotesque caricature, transforming him into a public danger. They tried to do it with Berlusconi for thirty years: the result? Five times in government and millions of Italians who, until the end, loved him. Now they’re trying it with Giorgia Meloni, who, despite the anathemas of the left, is the Prime Minister with the most solid and long-lasting consensus in recent decades.
As for Mr. Ranucci, I have a certain professional respect for him. But when he complains about the “climate of hatred” and attributes it to centre-right newspapers, supported by Elly Schlein in the red riding hood version with her index finger pointing, the issue becomes surreal. On the other hand, if the victim of the attack had been Mario Giordano or Paolo Del Debbio, the same indignant people would have revived the usual “they asked for it”. The double standard of the left is now so obvious that it no longer even has an effect.
The truth is that this permanent resistance narrative no longer works. Italy is not in the hands of baton squads, but of a democratically elected government that is trying to bring order where chaos has reigned for years. And do you know what the funniest thing is? That while the left talks about non-existent fascism, it loses elections in rapid succession, cannot find a credible leader, and barricades itself in self-referential living rooms from which it will never emerge.
So yes, dear Paolo: if you want to understand Italy, perhaps quantum physicists really are the choice
improve. Not as a joke!
Because only in a parallel universe can there be an ideology that accuses the opponent of hatred while insulting, defaming and fearing him. And which, despite everything, continues to remain defeated.