"Strategia del carciofo" The work of the Quirinale and the shield for Gentiloni

As he had predicted Matthew Castagna, in yesterday's interview, President Mattarella is taking his time, waiting for the center-right to look for allies, between individual deputies and senators, to have a majority in Parliament. Meanwhile, there is Gentiloni who continues the ordinary administration…(n.d.r.)
To find the majority you go by exclusion «Now he won't lift a finger». There is already a prime minister…
Of Massimiliano Scafi
Europe calls for it: "We have faith in the president". The centre-right, from Salvini to Tajani, encourages him: «We count on his wisdom and his ability».
Di Maio also flatters him: «The head of state will act with authority». Everyone looks at him, everyone is looking for it, everyone is waiting for his nod, a rabbit with a top hat, and what he does? Nothing, because nothing is exactly the best thing to do right now. «At this stage he won't lift a finger», they say from the Hill, because this is how the parties will move. Mattarella has no "prejudicial closures", it is neutral and wants to respect the citizens' indications, he will have his say at the right time.
He will say it in April, when the groups that will go up to the Quirinale will have to present themselves with a concrete proposal, made of programs and numbers. There, after the post-election decantation, we will see if it will be possible to extract a government from two non-majorities to give to the country. Being too active right away can only make the situation worse. Read More

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Elections 2018: the fixed nail

Of Marcello Veneziani
The fixed nail
Source: Marcello Veneziani
Now that the election campaign has ended, instead of having to do the servant's calculations on the vote, we prefer to draw a different balance and ask ourselves if there was a battle over values, a conflict over ideal themes, historians and politicians.
There was no clash between progressives and conservatives, between right and left, between political cultures, between liberal ideas and social or even socialist ideas. Every reference to the Catholic vote has disappeared.
The only clash was over fascism and anti-fascism. To resume the catchphrase of the electoral campaign, the Republic he entrusted the anti-fascist obsession to the psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati, summed up in a title that seems written by the school of fascist mysticism: “The immortal desire of fascism”.
An apparently apologetic title, which seems to have been written by someone obsessed with fascism as a category of spirit and perennial value. In reality Recalcati - as his surname suggests - followed the pattern of eternal fascism, set by the ideologist Umberto Eco; a theme that in Stalin's time was called "the eternal lurking reaction".
Immortal fascism as an alibi for immoral anti-fascism. Read More

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Elections 2018, Matthew Castagna: "il centrodestra cercherà una maggioranza in Parlamento"

The care of Nicola Pasqualato
I created and put online some interviews on the outcome of Sunday's vote 4 March to political leaders, journalists, commentators, political scientists. I thought it appropriate to also ask for a quick comment from Matthew Castagna, who responded to me yesterday afternoon and made these statements, interesting because it is understandable, even between the lines, that this is a person who knows what he's talking about. Then, one may or may not agree with him, but it certainly cannot be said that it is not clear. E’ the opinion of a “worker”, with experience:

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Renzi is finished? Ok, but spare us Prodi, Veltroni e tutto quello che c'era prima

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You may like it and you may (very legitimately) don't like Renzi's style. But if the alternative is a return to the old guard of the left, then it means that the Democratic Party deserves grillism and anti-politics
Of Francesco Cancellato

That Renzi is in bad shape, politically, it is a fairly incontrovertible fact. That the Democratic Party around the 22/23% in pre-bloc polls is objectively a party in a devastating identity crisis, pure. That the future of the main Italian center-left party – assuming that it will have a unitary future – must be something different from Leopolda, it is self-evident. Let no one think of it, but, to go back, to the pre-scrappage ruling class.
We say it, reading about noble fathers like Prodi who position themselves, of hypotheses of Veltroni secretariats, or Franceschini. Of returns to the fold, as protagonists, by D'Alema and Bersani. No, Thank you. If there is something that could be even more harmful than Renzi bolting to the Nazarene, it is the return of the Second Republic-model Democratic Party.
We say it by remembering – to them, above all – That the Renzi phenomenon was born precisely from a crisis of rejection of a large part of the democratic electorate towards them, of that immobile power block, self-referential, exhausted, incapable of building a political vision that was such, let alone make it attractive in the eyes of voters.
Even the Five Star Movement, in conclusion, it began to germinate precisely on the radical criticism of the centre-left ruling class of the second republic, unable, according to Beppe Grillo, to constitute a real alternative to Berlusconi and centre-right governments. The Monti government, the first great coalition, it was an all too welcome gift that produced the exploit of 2013.
Agree, Renzi has not reversed course, and the Democratic Party continued, with him too, its unstoppable fall. But if Renzi hadn't been there, probably, we would be talking about even worse numbers. Without Renzi, for example, the Letta and Gentiloni governments would have been perceived for what they really were, two inconclusive and excessively timid executives, without any idea – right or wrong – on the future of Italy. Without Renzi we would be talking about a Christian Democratic and seaside legislature, of pure management of the existing, without any spectacular failure, Perhaps, but without any planning impetus.

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progressist fiction

Of Marcello Veneziani
progressist fiction
Source: Marcello Veneziani
The left finds its unity again when it splits from the Italians. It happened the other day with the anti-fascist demonstrations, when everyone – Renzi and D'Alema, Gentiloni and the social centers, Grasso and the Anpi – found themselves together to celebrate a surreal ritual, a séance in the square, looking for the Dead Enemy to revive the unit.
But in this way they separated themselves from reality, from the present and from the Italians who consider the anti-fascist challenge to an alleged reborn fascism truly grotesque and anachronistic.
In reality neo-fascism accompanies our democracy since his birth, in the double version of neo-fascism intramoenia, or represented in parliament, and neo-fascism extramoenia, that is, spread outside parliament. The alarm has been raised surreptitiously for seventy years, with cyclical sharp points and ridiculous alarmism.
But let's leave aside the anti-fascist soap in bad faith.
Let's see what the left is today. Apart from the confetti of the widespread left, there is a government left and a left wing. The latter took the name of Liberi e Uguali. Read More

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A new Salvini and a new Di Maio: whatever happens, Italy is in their hands

Of Marcello Foa
A new Salvini and a new Di Maio: whatever happens, Italy is in their hands
Source: Marcello Foa
For some years now, elections have been decided in the final sprint, in the last week, trusting in the moods of the so-called “liquid voter” that is, that part of the electorate that is determined to go to the polls but is not motivated by deep convictions. The other day, for example, in a bar in Milan I heard two young people , sitting next to me, who were undecided whether to vote for Salvini or Bonino. How is this possible? You say. The alternative is extreme and profoundly contradictory but plausible in that part of the electorate that does not constantly follow politics but develops judgments by listening to them here and there and that in the end, without admitting it publicly and least of all to himself, vote instinctively and subliminally, convinced by the personality of the political leader, more than his ideas, by the ability to recognize oneself in him or by just one aspect of his program.
Let's be clear: at this point the majority of Italians have already made up their minds and it is significant that the polls have been recording minimal fluctuations for weeks; but precisely because the outcome seems obvious, It will be precisely the liquid voters who will determine the great turning points of these elections, four in particular:
– The Movement 5 Stars will end above the 28%?
– The Democratic Party will close under the 20%
– The center-right will obtain an absolute or only a relative majority?
– Who will end up in the lead, the League or Forza Italia? Read More

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The trap of “opposite extremisms”: distracting not to mention reality

DISTRACT FROM THE REAL PROBLEMS OF THE COUNTRY WITH THE FARCE OF THE “OPPOSITE EXTREMISM” WHICH THEY THEN SEE WIDELY MORE’ “OPERATIONAL” SOCIAL CENTERS, IN THE GAME MIRROR OF THE POLITICAL INTERESTS OF THE LEFT (N.D.R.)

Of Enrico Galoppini
The trap of “opposite extremisms”
Source: The Discrimination
Who could be so stupid as to believe that in 2018, in this Italy massacred for over twenty-five years by Euro-liberal diktats, sold off worse than at the sales, occupied by over one hundred US and NATO bases, and subjected to a "character washing" made of immigrationism and genderism, the danger for the famous “common people” (the one who doesn't fight, he doesn't expose himself, she doesn't think and that she would just like to stay calm) may arise from these OPPOSITE EXTREMISM”?
Of course only an asshole can believe that, or those who have every interest in uniting as many people as possible around the "reassuring power" can pretend to believe it.
But as far as I'm concerned, Lorsignori's little game is more exposed than ever, as well as worn out and stale. They want young Italians to kill themselves by hating each other without any purpose, but remember that when someone dies, the "moral instigators" will be all those who, amidst this circus of declarations, positions and petitions of principle, they have done nothing to open our eyes to who really pulls the strings of this kind of operations aimed at diverting attention from the classic false problem, and indeed they did everything to rekindle hatreds with an anachronistic flavour. Read More

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Gentiloni and the next Italian coup

Of Antonio Serena

Gentiloni and the next Italian coup
«Italy will have a stable government, the center-left coalition will be the pillar of this government and there is no risk of populist or anti-European governments". This was said by Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni at the end of the meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in which the Italian votes on the 4 March. And he added: «The government solutions don't come from the polls, the voters will give her the 4 March. My opinion is that the only possible pillar of a stable and pro-European coalition can be the centre-left coalition.... However, I believe that Italy will have a stable government not characterized by anti-European positions".
In short, at the same time as pollsters (Supermedia developed by YouTrend for Agi), just over two weeks before the vote, they give the center-right coalition to 36,7% and close to reaching an absolute majority of seats, the M5s al 28% and the Democratic Party only to 22,8%., Gentiloni announces that the country will almost certainly have a centre-left government.
At this point all that remains is to send Piepoli and colleagues home (even if the polls' margins of error are now minimal), clear the seats and form yet another puppet government suggested by Brussels. It's not a very unlikely hypothesis, since the person saying these things is not just a post-communist who must have had something Stalinist in his brain, but above all the head of the last of four governments (Monti, Letta Renzi and Gentiloni) lowered from above, that is, devoid of any popular legitimacy to govern as the Constitution indicates when it states (art. 1) that Italy is a Republic, based on work (co.1) and that (co.2) sovereignty belongs to the people who exercise it in the forms and limits of the Constitution.
Gentiloni's words are very serious as they continue to vilify the sovereignty of the Italian people. If in fact his words are true, the next consultations will be useless as in Brussels they have already decided what government to give to Italy, implementing yet another coup with the appointment of a government that will be the expression of something different from what the Italians will have established with their vote. That, at this point, as always, it matters little or nothing, just as the citizens' indications in the various referendums on the legal responsibility of magistrates counted for nothing, on the abolition of the Ministry of Agriculture or on public financing of parties, all ignored or misrepresented.
At this point the Italians will have to resign themselves: to retire ad 80 years, to have the 40% percent of unemployed young people, not being able to decide about their future, to welcome millions more "migrants" in exchange for the benevolent approval of European bankers on our public accounts, to passively suffer any form of imposition.
And all this despite the fact that the elections taking place in various European countries confirm the citizens' desire to break away from the Europe of the bankers and its failed policies.
This being the case, Italian citizens, il 4 March, they can easily desert the voting booths by opting for a trip out of town. At present, getting rid of this little theater of dwarves and dancers appears to be an impossible mission.

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Io Gengis Khan vote

Of Marcello Veneziani
Io Gengis Khan vote
Source: Marcello Veneziani
I know who will win the elections. He already has victory in his pocket, at the table. I would almost say imposed by electoral law. He will win more than he has won in previous years, recording ever-increasing numbers.
It's a post-election victory, a victory based on the free translation of the vote received. I'm talking about the ancient and renowned PT, which is a floating sub-parliamentary snake. The Transformist Party.
I've lost count of those who have done the quail leap and then even replicated it in reverse directions. I see many precursors, too many and too well known.
Their colorful testimonial is the legendary Razzi, who however is the least transformative of all and the nicest devotee of Kazzimiei. Read More

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A short story of seven infamous years

Of Marcello Veneziani
A short story of seven infamous years
Source: Marcello Veneziani
In the midst of a depressing electoral skirmish, Let's look back to understand how we got to this point. Let's reconstruct the history of the last seven years.
In the beginning it was the end of Berlusconi. Knocked out of action by an internal and international coup, in the name of a magic word called spread, The most absurd seven-year period in our albeit anomalous history began for Italy.
Over the course of these seven years we have witnessed the suicide of the right, to the suicide of the left, to the unfortunate advent of the technicians, to the abnormal growth of anti-politics, to the death and resurrection of Berlusconi.
Right-wing suicide has a main name: Finish. The suicide of the left has a main name: Renzi. And two swarms of accomplices.
The failure of the technicians has the name of Monti (and maybe Fornero's face), the abnormal growth of anti-politics has Grillo's hair and Di Maio's face. And the void that remains, the vacant chair, has the name of Mattarella.
The collapse of politics mirrors the collapse of society; indeed it is the only point that connects the degradation of politics to the decadence of society. In the background there is the tragic overtaking of deaths over births, of the old over the young, plus the flight abroad of the smartest kids, replaced by the arrival of illegal immigrants. Mass society has become molecular, always connected and increasingly solitary, abitata da narcisi astiosi. Read More

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