The news of the day, apparently, this is it: "international" research has shown that the yellow vest protest, in France, it was infiltrated and supported by the right, sometimes extreme, which on the Internet contributed to amplifying the media effects of the protest against President Macron. It's the usual local troll soup, successful hacker, American white supremacists and other bogeymen without whom, apparently, you can't do anything anymore.
The emphasis that – in this case as in all similar cases, from Russiagate onwards – it is given to trouble, you have post, to the tweets and retweets of the Internet demonstrates how traditional information is inclined to look for the speck in another's eye (Internet, Obviously) and neglect the beam that is housed in its own.
If this were not the case, the research published by the BBC would have had equal or greater prominence, which denounces the work of trolls to create consensus around the Warsaw summit called by the USA to marginalize Iran from the international community and perhaps to pave the way for some more decisive intervention than just economic sanctions. But above all it demonstrates once again how great it is, more generally, the desire to talk about something else, to go around problems by addressing only the waste and not the substance. Like a gala lunch made of baby carrots and spinach but without roast meat.
What we need today, speaking of yellow vests, It's a great search (even not international, municipal is also fine, as long as it is well done) about the reasons for their anger. Let him try to understand, for example, why so many "normal" French people have been taking to the streets for months to smash shop windows, getting beaten up by the police and getting rubber bullets, while the République only manages to pass vaguely repressive laws to narrow the margins for protests. It would be discovered, Perhaps, that behind the problem of excise duties on fuel there is a much more important issue, indeed decisive. For decades, the complicity of political systems with industrial ones has filled our streets with diesel engines that Europe no longer wants because they pollute.
Optimal, wise, it was time. But now who pays for the renovation of the engine fleet? Who finances the advent of clean energy? The yellow vests are telling Macron that they don't want to be them, with those old smelly diesels used by commuters from the suburbs or with those small-business owners' trucks, to open the wallet. Let the President's friends take care of it, with their luxury cars and their wives' hybrids. It's a huge question, which sooner or later will also arrive in Italy. Already now, if one visits a dealership, he realizes that there is an anxiety to get rid of diesels. But all we hear is that the yellow vests are ugly, dirty and bad. And infiltrated by the right and the Russians, that is, the stigma now distributed to all those who are not part of good society. Have reached.
And here we approach the politically interesting point. The left should not be present in force where an economic and social reorganization that will change the face of our countries is being discussed and fought, of ways of producing and consuming for who knows how long to come? Of course yes. And yet it isn't there. Latita. He is absent. And if there is stigma, look for nitpicks, distinguished.
And this is because for decades it has thrown its flags in the dust and abandoned it to the "enemy" (to any enemy) the management of the themes that were once his strong point. For decades we have no longer talked about workers but about citizens, of rights and not of wages, we go to the streets for migrants (bene) and not for deaths at work (very bad), we protest for democracy in the Republic of Kakania and not for the collapse of welfare, the EU is defended but not pensions.
It would be discovered, Perhaps, that behind the problem of excise duties on fuel there is a much more important issue, indeed decisive. For decades, the complicity of political systems with industrial ones has filled our streets with diesel engines that Europe no longer wants because they pollute
Let's take France: the socialist's most striking government act (socialist!) François Hollande was the approval of gay marriage. Great and legitimate achievement for the small minority concerned, a completely irrelevant decision for the many who struggle to make ends meet with their salary or pension.
It also happens in Italy. It's no coincidence that, in the troubled debate that shakes the Democratic Party, the most determined to make a mess (albeit in his own way) on the issues of work it seems like Carlo Calenda, a business manager who (lucky him) he handled customer relations for Ferrari, he directed marketing for Sky and was the assistant to the president of Confindustria, in this specific case Luca Cordero di Montezemolo.
The left is leaving but demands that no one come in its place. Unfortunately, vacuum does not exist in nature. And if you're not interested in yellow vests, someone else will be interested. Maybe it's the right that scares you. Or the "populists" who you look at with such snobbishness that you even lose your other four senses
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