December 9th, 2019
Luca Sofri
WITTGENSTEIN
Yesterday I saw a lot of this video, of people who show that they support slogans and opinions of the LEGA and of Salvini without having the slightest idea of what they mean, those slogans and opinions. It goes around much and with satisfaction among the detractors of Salvini, of course, that perhaps with reason they could tell of knowing it longer than their opponents, and they laughed at their pretentious indecency.
italian
But to me it seems that the video suggests conclusions much less comforting, for those who think themselves progressive, or anti-Salvinian.
Little or no informed voters have always existed, and what the video shows is that today they vote for Salvini and support what he says regardless: Having the consensus of those who do not know what they are talking about and those who do not follow the political issues carefully is a decisive element of success in politics, and has always counted for everyone. The video tells that today leaders can make this thing like Salvini and Meloni, and they don’t know how to do it anymore. And when I say others naturally I think of the leaders of other parties (some of whom even lash out at their own failure), and especially the leaders of the PD: But we must not feel absolved and complacent, all of us supporters of progressive ideas that we are not able to convey, pass, tell, even to our neighbours on the landing. Those people show not a right-wing limit, but a success. On the left there is a total disarmament of ideas and projects, in these years: good times when at least fossil, aged and anachronistic leaders in left-wing parties opposed renewal projects, good or bad. At least there were renewal projects, inside and outside parties. Now nobody knows what fish to catch (yes, the allusion is wanted), not even among those who blame the PD, and you end up laughing at the people who once knew how to convince and now convince them someone else. Uninformed people are majorities, if you do not work on information: this is the first failure– manageable– of a progressive democracy and culture. The second is in that video: of which Salvini will be rejoicing, he with good reasons.
https://www.wittgenstein.it/2019/12/09/ridere-di-se/
translated with http://www.reverso.net/
Yesterday I saw a lot of this video, of people who show that they support slogans and opinions of the LEGA and of Salvini without having the slightest idea of what they mean, those slogans and opinions. It goes around much and with satisfaction among the detractors of Salvini, of course, that perhaps with reason they could tell of knowing it longer than their opponents, and they laughed at their pretentious indecency.
italian
But to me it seems that the video suggests conclusions much less comforting, for those who think themselves progressive, or anti-Salvinian.
Little or no informed voters have always existed, and what the video shows is that today they vote for Salvini and support what he says regardless: Having the consensus of those who do not know what they are talking about and those who do not follow the political issues carefully is a decisive element of success in politics, and has always counted for everyone. The video tells that today leaders can make this thing like Salvini and Meloni, and they don’t know how to do it anymore. And when I say others naturally I think of the leaders of other parties (some of whom even lash out at their own failure), and especially the leaders of the PD: But we must not feel absolved and complacent, all of us supporters of progressive ideas that we are not able to convey, pass, tell, even to our neighbours on the landing. Those people show not a right-wing limit, but a success. On the left there is a total disarmament of ideas and projects, in these years: good times when at least fossil, aged and anachronistic leaders in left-wing parties opposed renewal projects, good or bad. At least there were renewal projects, inside and outside parties. Now nobody knows what fish to catch (yes, the allusion is wanted), not even among those who blame the PD, and you end up laughing at the people who once knew how to convince and now convince them someone else. Uninformed people are majorities, if you do not work on information: this is the first failure– manageable– of a progressive democracy and culture. The second is in that video: of which Salvini will be rejoicing, he with good reasons.
https://www.wittgenstein.it/2019/12/09/ridere-di-se/
translated with http://www.reverso.net/
