Of Gianpasquale Santomassimo

To all those who carry out very complicated and political analyses, who believe that a certain party has lost boatloads of votes because of a wrong little word on TV, for an incorrect goal in the program, for that indigestible candidate etc., a simple truth must be remembered: that the bulk of the electorate orients themselves and thinks in a much simpler way. If the "left" has become indigestible and unvotable in the eyes of voters, this will have concentric repercussions, from Renzi to Grasso and even further to the left.
The distinctions that political enthusiasts make, splitting hairs in four, they have no value and are not intelligible to the common voter. It is a question of understanding why there has been such a broad and probably definitive rejection of what has been considered "left" in recent decades. An unsurprising phenomenon, and that comes from quite far away, by a reversal of roles and representation of classes and lifestyles, plastically depicted by all the vote analyzes of recent years, which pitted the satisfied wealthy people of the city centers against the people of the suburbs who expressed a need for rebellion and protection at the same time.
It's not as if there was a lack of offers of possible claims, also very varied, even if of poor quality: at this point the question from the left was missing, let's say. The whole left (moderate, radical, antagonist) it was perceived and judged by the electorate as an integral part of a system that needed to be changed.
We are also witnessing in Italy the collapse of the liberal left which had long been hegemonic with its vision of the world. The so-called "radical left" itself had been nothing other than the extreme wing of this widespread ideology, very sensitive to the issues of civil rights and "humanitarian" battles, effectively inert in the field of social rights.
And also complicit in the construction of the pro-European myth, which is the great defeat of this consultation in the background. The Democratic Party is an integral part of the pro-European establishment, his left-wing critics are very often askari of the "more Europe"..
We are not only faced with euros and rules, but also a very powerful and pervasive overall ideology, a vast political and cultural front, convinced that "more Europe" is the solution to the problems that Europe itself has posed with its crazy implementation. It would involve undertaking a long-term effort to demystify - as was once said - the results of a hegemony built with many decades of massive use of cultural resources, media, economical, but which rests on very fragile historical and theoretical foundations, witnessed by that embarrassing document that went down in history as the "Ventotene manifesto".
The problem with left-wing Europeanism is that it is no longer just a replacement ideology for the twentieth-century ones that collapsed in 1989 and it is no longer just a "civil religion" imposed on subjects by the establishment. But now it is a real religion, with its dogmas, his acts of blind and absolute faith, the creed because it is absurd (I think because it's absurd) and also a massive dose of human sacrifice. At least start asking the problem, discuss it openly and secularly on the left, it will certainly be a positive thing (as well as necessary).
Without rethinking everything it will be impossible to start again. I don't have any great illusions, the Republic will continue to rave about populism and "sovereignism", the left will continue to treat the popular masses who express discomfort with their living conditions as fascists and racists, will continue to discuss "security obsessions" and imagine that "multiculturalism" is a gala lunch free of lacerations and dramas. The defense of the national interest will be left to the right, and even the exercise of the constitutional sovereignty for which we had voted 4 December of 2016.
«We are not interested in national sovereignty, we are internationalists" declares the leader of an electoral list that received 1.1%. One wonders since when this position, who even ignores the meaning of the words, and which would be impossible to explain to the Cubans, to the Vietnamese, but also to the Kurds and any other people, has become commonplace on the Italian left.
Instead of evoking the People we should at least start talking to them. When we decide to do it it will never be too late.
Source: The Manifesto