involved in politics is a choice, not an obligation for the Feb. 13 women in the streets for the dignity "Dealing with politics is a choice, not an obligation." So said Emma Bonino, in Rieti in regional elections. The same words are repeated today by Susanna Camusso, National Secretary CGIL, one of the leaders in the mobilization of February 13 to express publicly the widespread unease, even though silent, in favor of "dignity" understood in the etymological sense of "deserving of respect", founding value of our Constitution, drawn after the defeat of the dictatorship, about the primary objective of providing citizens through labor, laws, the abolition of all privilege and impunity, the exact definition of rights and duties.
This opening paragraph explains the Constitution: " Italy is a republic founded on work, because work in a modern democratic system, is a factor of freedom, independent thinking, self-realization. A vision of work as intended, deeply liberal, difficult to reconcile with the practice of the recommendation of vote trading, with the yields of any type, including today a beautiful young woman's body.
The only way to give the work the meaning intended by the founding fathers is to enhance the commitment and sense of responsibility towards the citizens themselves and the community. E 'in this spirit that we have posted the second paragraph Article 4: "Every citizen has the duty, according to his abilities (or on the basis of merit) and individual choice (the choice implies freedom and discernment) activity or function that contributes to material progress of society (deleted from the target practice, almost universal, civil degraded selfishness, a painful attachment to his "special." Del ask itself even at the expense of others).
Berlusconi, it must be said, did not invent anything about the status of "hostage" (Saviano) of those who look for a job in Italy, has just exasperated, adding as is the case for decades, the shameless use of institutional roles, places where young people protected the ex-wife Veronica called "junk without shame". A modesty that seems to have disappeared in many parts of the youth, willing to do anything to get an easy success.
success embodied by the Prime Minister in which the most fragile looking with admiration and a feeling of indulgence and smiling accomplice to accomplish anything. Even though for years his behavior does not correspond to what the Constitution prescribes for those who hold public roles: "Discipline and Honor": art.54.
For the young and the young at heart, however, it is necessary to understand that those who do not feel like to live with "discipline and honor," as they say and Camusso Bonino, nothing more. Privacy ago, the entrepreneur, the pensioner, the pleasure-loving free to spend the existence of accumulation of money and rich feasts (maybe told a few frequent letters to posterity, as he did with the rich Trimalchio Petronio). Who does not cover the existence of institutional roles may spend as they wish, limited only by the laws that everyone is called to follow if you do not want to stumble in justice. Even the ordinary citizen, for example, has no license to engage in indecent businesses with minors.
For a prime minister would be responsible, however, respect the people of the difficulties which should deal "with discipline and honor." According to Eurostat, the work is at peak. Particularly for young women and the situation there is really dramatic. The employment rate is 57% for women is 47% and 29% of young people under 25 years, is in search of work. The data also tell us that are increasing, "inactive", ie those who give up looking for a job. This phenomenon particularly affects women, although there are more graduates to college graduates.
And while the women host institutions co-opted according to the requirements that have nothing to do with the skills and the political passion, thanks to an electoral law that expresses the arrogance towards the citizens, deprived of their right to choose their representatives, women continue to remain on the sidelines systems of public, political and parapolitici.A this regard just look at the composition of the board of the university consortium Universitas Sabina or neo Provincial Committee of INPS: all men. And if we have two women in Rieti Region is due to the price and the possibility of the appointment of commissioners, not because they elected. Certainly not their fault.
The consequences for the people who go through phases like ours, of pride, and fear-induced, low level of critical thinking and need to conduct of their leaders, are never positive. The banality of evil, as told by Hannah Arendt about Nazism, head of the cultural and moral disorder of a civilized people who had the German people, transformed into a wolf to his fellow men, is always ready to take on new forms and the corrosive quality of democracy and a nation.
Having chosen the title of a book is beautiful and painful as the Jew Primo Levi, "If not now when," the slogan of the initiative promoted by the women of February 13 has a high symbolic value. The conquest or regaining the dignity, human and civil, is a journey that must be done together. Together it is easier to find the strength to say enough to swamp and from civil rotting from sloth 'indulgence to a man who is reducing Italy to the periphery of Europe.
Article published in the Journal of Rieti