Freedom is not free, nor politics
Of Alberto Bagnai
Before diving into reading the DEF, of which I should be rapporteur in the Special Commission […] I would like to remind one thing to all those whom this blog has taught to read reality with different eyes, to connect the dots into a coherent picture.
If you can listen today these words, o these words, that is, if you can feel represented in our institutions, if you can hope that words will be followed by deeds, if you have a reasonable and well-founded hope that our country will regain awareness of its dignity, and that institutions return to thinking in terms of national interest and not magical thinking, if this happened, you certainly owe it to Claudio's tenacity [Villages] and mine, to our willingness to fight for our country, for ours (that is, yours too) interest: this, naturally, it was a necessary condition.
However, it wouldn't have been enough.
So that these good ideas, although not particularly original, On the contrary, I would say: good precisely because they are not particularly original, to the limit of the tautological (an unsustainable monetary arrangement is unsustainable, Procyclical fiscal rules are procyclical), so that these ideas, I said, could be transformed into political practice, could reach the Palace, another junction was essential. The real turning point was the listening that Matteo Salvini gave to our message. What allows you to see yourselves represented in the Senate and the Chamber today was the intellectual humility and openness of spirit with which Salvini accepted, unlike everyone (that is, everyone) the other Italian politicians, to confront an alternative vision of the world. I add that even this would not have been enough.
If you can listen today these words, o these words, that is, if you can feel represented in our institutions, if you can hope that words will be followed by deeds, if you have a reasonable and well-founded hope that our country will regain awareness of its dignity, and that institutions return to thinking in terms of national interest and not magical thinking, if this happened, you certainly owe it to Claudio's tenacity [Villages] and mine, to our willingness to fight for our country, for ours (that is, yours too) interest: this, naturally, it was a necessary condition.
However, it wouldn't have been enough.
So that these good ideas, although not particularly original, On the contrary, I would say: good precisely because they are not particularly original, to the limit of the tautological (an unsustainable monetary arrangement is unsustainable, Procyclical fiscal rules are procyclical), so that these ideas, I said, could be transformed into political practice, could reach the Palace, another junction was essential. The real turning point was the listening that Matteo Salvini gave to our message. What allows you to see yourselves represented in the Senate and the Chamber today was the intellectual humility and openness of spirit with which Salvini accepted, unlike everyone (that is, everyone) the other Italian politicians, to confront an alternative vision of the world. I add that even this would not have been enough.