Dear Director Feltri, who comes out more defeated by this referendum result?
His loyal reader, Giorgio Marchesi.
Dear Giorgio, defeated is the whole center -left, who once again has shown that he has no contact with the real country. The Italians, to whom the various progressive leaders had insistently asked to go to the polls, simply did not go. They ignored the appeal. A flop throughout the line.
But if I really have to indicate the loser par excellence, it is undoubtedly Maurizio Landini, the most useless trade unionist in history, stopped at the slogans, abbarbiced to Stantie ideologies, nostalgic for a world of work that no longer exists. Perhaps he aspires to be the head of the left, but the truth is that he is not even able to be the head of the CGIL.
Landini has lost contact with the base, but still dreams of being in the head. It should represent workers, and instead it no longer represents itself. The world of work has changed, changes quickly, evolves. And what does he do? It clings with obstinacy to dogmas of the twentieth century, as if it were enough to win some old flags to still have a role.
The referendum wanted by CGIL, ignored by the vast majority of Italians, is yet another confirmation: Landini has become the symbol of a fossilized left, blind in front of the present, terrified by the future. The Jobs Act, the Meloni, the majority, the alleged fascists had to scrape the government. Instead they scramed themselves. The CGIL, then, was scrapped by the workers themselves.
Will there be consequences? Obviously not. Nobody will resign, nobody will do self -criticism. The left loses, as always, but remains glued to the armchairs.
Will they learn something? No.
And what should they understand? That real workers – those who get up at dawn, who sweat, who struggle – do not feel represented by those who make the lounge revolution? Too difficult, too tiring.
Personally, I am sure that if he launched a referendum to remove Landini from his assignment, the quorum would exceed him, and how. And perhaps, finally, we would have a useful referendum in the new millennium.