Citizens are, now, to “read” people, biographies, journeys and situations.
The largest danger of this “torture of the drop”to which we as citizens, as a society and as parliamentary and governmental institutions are subjected by the successive revelations of European Court of Appeal is to bring about the deadening of the reflexes of political sensitivity and transparency of public opinion and to reach the point where we consider the ruffle honest and inseparable from the healthy functioning of the electoral route and the promotion of our parliamentary representatives.
It is one thing to respect the personal adventures of people who are currently facing proceedings to waive their immunity , judicial investigation and possible deprivation of the opportunity to reclaim the trust of the people in the next elections and another issue is the necessity of renewing the political scene, both at the level of its functioning and at the level of the persons who staff it and the healthy relations of trust that they can re-establish with the society that will be called upon to elect them.
Against the morbid pattern that paleo-partisanship, in all its reconstituted versions, is attempting to “wear” us, the government must immediately propose an attitude of clean and transparent management of public money and good administration, far from favouritism and preferences of “our own”, “important“, as if citizens who vote for other parties or other persons than the sitting ministers or the “facilitators” of irregular demands deputies, are “foreigners” and “insignificant”.
Citizens are, now, to “read” people, biographies, paths and situations. Because citizens are injured by the disturbed relations of opacity of the old party system that perceives politics as a process of vicious mediation, partisanship, name-calling, nepotism and pressure from the MP to the officials of the Public Administration, for speeding up procedures or – even worse – for manipulating and encouraging them to promote the illegal and irregular demands of certain “old-time crooks” who are getting rich at the expense of the ordinary citizen who – no matter which party he or she votes for – is struggling to earn an honest and clean living, while seeing the parasites of a power that has not learned from the lessons of the past and from the decade of crisis, continue to enrich themselves by distorting procedures that, instead of being developmental, give off the anachronistic smell of a trivialised and overdue lack of transparency.
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