Reporting of BastaBugie editorial team

(AUTOMATIC READING)
«In communism as in liberal democracy we encounter the same peculiarity: what is incidental is treated as a systemic problem, which means that everything that happens is systemic and nothing is incidental to the system. Therefore it becomes natural for true liberal democrats – as it was for true communists – victimize their colleagues because of an occasional comment, or a lack of vigilance, or for an inappropriate joke, making life difficult for undisciplined people with constant warnings and creating new rules and stricter laws. By doing this, the self-proclaimed guardians of purity see themselves as those who carry on their shoulders the future of liberal democracy around the world. If it weren't for their effort and dedication, this great political undertaking, they think, would experience setbacks, and this must never be said. As in any system built on violence and lies, in communism this belief a little’ paradoxical in the contemporaneity of invincibility and vulnerability could be easily explained. It was felt that even just a few true thoughts and ideas, once publicly recognized as such, they would have exposed the falsity of the entire system and finally made it fall. Even the system's most deluded supporters knew that the truth was its most powerful enemy. And it was the truth in an almost literal sense that brought him down. In a liberal democracy this way of seeing things seems absurd, because the system is stable and the principle of freedom of speech is written into the Constitution. But those who hunt down political incorrectness and work to strengthen political correctness believe or perhaps unconsciously think that the stability of the system is not as strong as is naively believed, that free speech is not as problem-free as some bad actors believe it to be.". (R. Legutko, The Demon in Democracy – Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies, pp. 103-104).
THE REAL REASON
With a sort of naive disbelief, many have commented that Senator Monica Cirinnà's request (Pd) to remove the anti-abortion poster put up by the Pro Vita association in a street in Rome and the subsequent decision of the mayor Virginia Raggi (Five Stars) to actually remove it are in no way justifiable, because the poster did not offend or attack anyone, but he exposed some factual truths. In fact, the following sentences were written around the image of a fetus: «You were so a 11 weeks… All your organs were present. Your heart was beating as early as the third week after conception. You were already sucking your thumb. And now you're here because your mom didn't abort you.".
The reason that put the abortion front in crisis and why the removal of the poster was requested and obtained is precisely this: which exposed factual truths. He did not attack the legislation that legalized abortion in the name of moral principles, or with political arguments, philosophical or religious. He simply stated factual truths. Today certain factual truths throw the political establishment of liberal democratic countries into panic as well as the smallest of truths, if spoken in public, it threw the nomenklatures of communist countries into panic. Ryszard Legutko, Polish professor of philosophy and MEP for the Law and Justice party, he lived under both political regimes, noted the growing similarities between the communism of the 1960s and 1980s and liberal democracy in the Third Millennium, and he wrote on it the enlightening book from which the quote we proposed at the beginning is taken.
The allergy to the truth that leads today's liberal democracy to censorship in a way that increasingly resembles what communism did yesterday, illuminates the nature of the two systems: both are ideological in nature. Today's liberal democracy claims to present itself as a neutral system, an institutional framework that allows political life to unfold in pluralistic terms. In realtà la crescente intolleranza dei sedicenti liberal-democratici per tutto ciò che contraddice la loro visione del mondo è la prova che non siamo davanti a un sistema che garantisce vera libertà non più di quanto, riguardo al comunismo, fossimo davanti a un sistema che garantiva vera uguaglianza. Altri indizi di un’affinità non casuale e non incidentale fra comunismo e liberal-democrazia odierna balzano agli occhi. L’egualitarismo, ideologia che piega le realtà fattuali e morali alle proprie astrazioni politicamente interessate, è migrato dal comunismo alla liberal-democrazia. In Italia il Partito Democratico nel quale milita l’intollerante Cirinnà discende attraverso due passaggi storici (Pds e Ds) dal Partito Comunista Italiano (Pci).
DEL NOCE AVEVA RAGIONE
At the end of the 1980s Augusto Del Noce wrote that, by joining the campaigns for i “civil rights” promoted by the Radical Party, the PCI would have lost not only its Marxist ideological contents, but also its popular soul, and it would become a mass Radical Party. That's exactly what happened: today the old PCI is called the Democratic Party and is liberal in economics, while on bioethical and family issues he is liberal. The only discrepancy with Del Noci's prophecy lies in the fact that it is no longer exactly mass: il 19 percent of the last elections clashes with 34 percent that Enrico Berlinguer's PCI reached in 1976.
While the intolerance and censorship of freedom of expression that characterize today's liberal-democratic parties cannot help but alarm us, We are comforted by the observation that extreme susceptibility in the face of limited provocation is a symptom of weakness. As in real socialism, the slightest manifestation of dissidence met with ferocious repression because the power was aware that the smallest truth contradicting the propaganda could bring down the regime, thus in liberal democracy in totalitarian drift, the growing intolerance towards dissenters, especially on issues concerning sex and family, portends the imminence of a collapse. That in a country of 60 million inhabitants large 300 thousand square kilometers a single poster provokes hysterical reactions, verbal violence and an illiberal act such as ordering its elimination, it is a sign of the fragility of the edifice of political correctness. By dint of widening and rising in height, it starts to creak.
Let's expect a crescendo of intimidation, above all due to the fact that in Italy there are few dissidents, there are many interested accomplices of power, growing cultural subalternity. In reality, a little would be enough’ of intransigence in the defense of freedom of expression to reduce the neo-totalitarians to more lenient advice. And a little’ of courage in continuing to pronounce in public the factual truths that annoy the dominant culture. Today we say that we are all children of a father and a mother, or that each of us before being born was a fetus who could only count on the welcome of the womb in which he was conceived, it has become more revolutionary than the American Declaration of Independence or the Tennis Court Oath.