few days ago, discussing with a friend who has great experience and a history of life far greater than mine, I told him that, unfortunately, it was clear what our country was long "chained in a few years of the previous century" . Specifically it is difficult to state whether , 1945, 1968 or a later period. However, any year is, we are chained and the chains there are sewn on. Only we have the key and we may one day off or leave this burden our children.
We live in a country dramatically divided. Between right and left, center and right and between the center and left. Between North and South and between legality and criminal organizations. Among the laity and between Catholics and moderate Catholics and religious fundamentalists. Among old and new generations of pensioners and new recruits. Between capital and labor and between organizations of employers and unions. We are a country of fans, we live always in the corners. We are so desensitized by the constant battle, from wounds daily, that we do not realize how much so we stopped the economic and cultural development of our country. We do not realize to what we are not showing up to the our ancient and glorious history.
We can find "proof" of this sociological interpretation at all levels. They see the evidence in the form of obstacles. The obstacles to progress, modernity, innovation and change. BARRIERS our country to free itself from the shackles and reach the levels of other economic and cultural realities of Europe.
Starting the analysis from the local level, in this context, it is easy to see the contours of such "obstacles" to change. There are several local reality, where family groups (it would be better to say "familistic) prevent the evolution of history, delaying indefinitely the progress of social, economic, cultural and even to prevent the handover of a democratic political alternative. In these situations there is no meritocracy, there is no equality, there a truly democratic reality. I live as citizens in a limbo, hostage to local barons who would do anything to preserve their privileges. The media used to carry out these objectives are the control of economic resources and services of first use. Means used to preserve their power and to ensure dignity and equal opportunity to all citizens. In these situations, in essence, there is even the right or the left, the parties are merely a means to persevere in maintaining power.
Turning to the level "national" as defined not as an impediment to modernity and change what happened in the "house" of the center against the figure of Mr Fini, how not to interpret the "friendly fire" against him as a traditionalist and conservative resurgence of a short-sighted policy that will not break free from the ghosts of the past and the personal interests? Gianfranco Fini has done nothing to deserve such a violent and cruel persecution of journalists. The press owned by the Berlusconi family has spent all the headlines of the last two months as a secondary issue of the House of Monaco. A charge that, even if it were proven in comparison to the curriculum of judicial Silvio Berlusconi, is comparable to a fine of exaggerating in no parking. A campaign supported by false accusatory interviews, fake documents, false evidence, and illegal file Agios also reinforced by friendships with the elite of the Premier in tax havens where tax has to shave part of his heritage. False allegations also accompanied by real personal slander against the very private life of Mr Fini. An editorial choice "moralizing" rather paradoxical because it came from newspapers owned by famous patrons of escort and not good friars in the suburbs.
Clearly, the objective of this editorial squads, is to prevent Gianfranco Fini will become promoters of a real "cultural revolution" in the center. That is the equivalent of the promise "liberal revolution" of 1994 assured by Berlusconi, and never implemented. In the vacuum left by these broken promises, Fini is trying to sketch the outlines of a new center. right rather than a secular, liberal really serious and not populist, patriotic pride and finally last but not least , able to carry on the battle for legality. Berlusconi, who will not tolerate those who differ from her "thank goodness for Silvio", which is why he decided to destroy it, delete it, to kill him politically. Never mind that this will hinders change and cultural progress in the center, the important thing is not to be overshadowed by a domestic litigant. And so, in this way, continues modus operandi a country that tries to thwart any momentum innovator, modernization and progress. Fini If you succeed, as I believe, to survive in the crossfire, it will take Italian politics only the extraordinary benefits.
How can we not then interpret the change as an obstacle to the flourishing of small parties and extremist movements in our political scene? We thought naively, with the poor results obtained by the various communist parties of the left (PdCI, PRC, etc. ..) and the extreme right (the right of Storace, Forza Nuova) have done a step towards a more moderate and maximalist and immune to xenophobic tendencies. But this has not happened and who was perverting the dangerous legacy of these parties has been inherited from early in the justice-left movements and a resurgence in the populist and illiberal side. If we think that the "movement 5 stars comedian Beppe Grillo stands in the polls between 3 and 5% we have to seriously worry about the future of our country. If we continue to react with" normal "to propaganda to the limits of political subversion of these groups, we should not surprise us in the future when, instead of being "touched" Secretary of the ICFTU Bonanni will instead hit by a smoke bomb thrown by a militant of community centers.
We have all the necessary duty to react against such retrograde impulses. We must reject these "obstacles" to change from twentieth-century visions of society and the ideological and political struggle. Quest ' Last must be pursued through dialogue, the comparison also cruel and bitter, but never with physical violence or blackmail. Otherwise, the risk is not only to block the change, but, as noted by Montezemolo, to recede to levels less democratic and freedom.
In 1983 the then U.S. President Ronald Reagan, in a historic speech that addressed the issue of culture clash between the West and the communist model, said that "As long as the books will remain open , also will be open minds. " is up to us to continue to hold" open "and" free "our minds and defend in this way the cause of freedom at any level that can be local or national level. Only then can we maintain high the banner of hope. the only way one day Realising the hope into reality. Only then will we be able to overcome the "obstacles" to change and free ourselves from the chains that keep us all locked in 900.
