We learned this with the Syrian Bana al-Abed, then with Greta Thunberg e, In the end, with the incomparable fifteen year old Simone. To the cosmopolitan and politically correct left, completely holed up in the Ivory Tower of the elite, electorally overwhelmed by "sovereignists" of various kinds and now incapable of reading a reality that it no longer knows how to decipher, only the children remain.
A propaganda tool exceptional however cynical and dishonest, potentially unassailable, children are being sent to the slaughterhouse of the world media by a liberal "left" with no ideas: after the collapse of the Soviet Union, as Francis Fukuyama explained in an article published in Foreign Affairs,«the left focuses less on creating broad economic equality and more on promoting the interests of a wide variety of marginalized groups, such as ethnic minorities, immigrants and refugees, women and LGBT people […] During the era of globalisation, observes the political scientist, «Most left-wing parties have changed their strategy. Rather than building solidarity around large communities such as the working class or the exploited, began to focus on smaller and smaller groups […] The left's diminished ambitions for large-scale socioeconomic reform converge with its shift toward multicultural identity politics in the final decades of the 20th century. The left continues to be defined by its passion for equality, but its program has shifted from its previous emphasis on the working class to the demands of an ever-widening circle of marginalized minorities».
And so on climate, imperialist wars and immigration, the liberal left he resorts to children to try to obtain what he no longer has: a consensus now decimated in almost all the great European democracies, exploiting the image of children thrown into the media meat grinder by spin doctor unscrupulous. If this is your moral and anthropological superiority, search damaged, keep it.
(Of Roberto Vivaldelli)