Where does The columns of the New York Times talk of an Italy sadder, poorer and ultimately declining and we can swear if a major international journal allows you to make certain considerations because it is not afraid to be denied.
But we Italians do not want the Times to understand that the moment we are experiencing is a special moment because it is one of those moments where the chickens are coming home to roost and when it happens so they come out all together.
The economic situation is especially serious because the truth unfair, because the current system is not Italian at all but rather is based on merit positions of power, the friendship and patronage (a mechanism known as, inter alia, to lose ' Italy the best minds).
Italy is no research, no investment in the future, is likely to remain behind. Young 'big babies' now no hope of becoming independent and 'men' as our ambitious ministers. The large Italian companies, our so-called 'pride' as Alitalia, which have no credibility, which are managed cheerfully at risk as the crack and other Parmalat crack rather have done so already. The small and medium businesses strangled.
policy, the victim of a system of small parties intent only to ensure its survival, unable to deal with and decide, plan and act, stuck in a perverse mechanism that prevents it from and reform of government, leaving the country without a guide.
The judiciary, full of problems, a situation that is really the third world (in Italy a civil trial lasts at least 20 years), which very often gives the impression of 'fight' to change the political class, do that first not for it and that risks being strongly anti-democratic, a real coup.
What happened yesterday, the minister of justice who resigned because he says 'persecuted' by hatched a plan to discredit the judiciary is a matter whose gravity has gone unnoticed by many, now accustomed to the worst, but the significance of the happened is in fact a 'war' between the powers state. It is not entirely relevant if the reason is the side of the Keeper or the magistrate, the scandal and the judge is the Keeper of that fight each other. And even this is not a new problem for Italy and for the umpteenth time again today.
Then there are the Italians, who have learned to live with all this, those who have learned to think that it is useless to be honest if all the others are not, in a world of thieves who steal is more virtuous. They have learned to accept a system which seek to make personal gain. But the way of personal gain is to lose sight of the overall framework and eventually the chickens come home to roost. You can administer a nation ill for decades, but not forever. The Campania, badly managed and with a people that knows how to travel the world, suddenly found itself in an emergency. 'Emergency' at least one word to describe a particular phenomenon that has lasted for decades, that has not been answered by the policy, had no answers from the judiciary, had no response even prior to the indignation of many that have profited on the problem. They closed one eye and looked each one to its interest. But in the end the problems are not solved, only postponed. It's called 'emergency' but it is the final act which is reached when the evils are not treated in time, the metaphor is clear bell, sooner or later it all ends in the shit!
I once again are 'happy' because of all this to really change things we have to wait for the whole of Italy is submerged by rubbish. All this must reflect a country and bring it to change before other issues are afloat, before tensions become violence before violence becomes a civil war.
Italians, 'liberated' from the moralizing gaze of the church, you can off the floor to the pope. Surely not all Italians, but no one should feel above criticism, no one should think more of that guilt is 'other'.
Too many wrong things were done thinking that the fault was 'the other'. So enough challenge, just pontificating on abstract that do not serve to anyone. We must talk less and roll up their sleeves. Italy is our country and we are Italian, the blame lies with us all. The conflicts must end, must end the conflict, must end the dualism, because there is no conflict on the adjustment path that Italy faces. Enough of this penelope canvas in which one party to disassemble the night what he did the other. The truth is that we should address the problems again in a united call us Italians and regain a minimum of national identity which, though little now, however, the only thing we have left to cling to.