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The wall between politics and country

on what happened yesterday we have wasted so many words. But the best ones seem Mario Calabresi today at La Stampa . Here they are.

The wall between politics and country Mario Calabresi

policy consumes Palace closed in the showdown waiting for months: shouts, insults you, it is counted and then celebrates. Outside the city burns. The doors of the building are locked, to separate two worlds that seem to live in light-years distant galaxies. columns of smoke, explosions, the clang of the clashes, the paving stones flying, helmets, bats, they speak of course of the past, make us think of the seventies, but that's where we go to understand. Better to look to London, the boys attack the banks, which hit the car of Charles and Camilla, Greece fires in the square, all young people out of control that no longer have any relationship with parties and their mediation, but point to the breakdown, convinced they have the right to the streets to vent their anger at a life that promises to be precarious. Images of Rome are frightened and told in an exemplary manner the distance between a policy closed in on itself, in its rituals deteriorate, and a country that swerves are wicked and no more, no dreams or a direction. The boys playing at war with the helmet, petrol, hood and sticks are not sure the Italians, but the policy should be able to look beyond those fires to see a silent majority that is not exhausted and not even able to delude themselves. Instead, the policy blind, focuses on building a "zone red "to be safe, not only to let out the troublemakers but all Italians, and then into fights, barks, excites the minds and seems unable to produce any solution. The country heels for too long because it is not government, because no one bothers to confront and contain the maximalist delirious, to reassure those who are afraid of the future and stop the violence that is returning to emerge. We can not risk losing another generation, even if we speak of small breaks, even if we are against terrorism and guns. The noise of the clashes of the past requires a leap of dignity of the government and would require a change in the language of opposition: you can not go on roofs or call "Chile", the Italian police without bothering to stir up the streets. On 14 December last past, and Berlusconi has been in the saddle, winning another battle in its war with Fini. But a government that is saved by three votes, won overnight, has little to celebrate: his only concern now should be to be able to recover their ability to listen to the country and not to survive one more day.