Music is changing in the Democratic Party: for the first time since its founding, the votes of the now few members were beaten by the votes of the gazebo, giving a victory to a young woman who slammed the classroom door. time to get drunk Renziana will return just a few months before she takes over. Elly Schlein’s clear victory in the primaries is a fact confirming that the main force occupying the political space of the left since 2007 is now something disconnected from reality, voting to prevent a Martian stronghold from getting more votes. the victory of others in the name of the world and the idea of ​​​​the country.

a little revolution

As the first flames of the little revolution took place on a rainy Sunday in February, at the headquarters of the next secretary’s selection committee, many faces mixed surprise and joy: some polling stations in cities like Rome and Milan recorded embarrassing differences. , these pinball matches force the losers to go under the pinball. The usual ‘camel troop’ of the usual suspects were of no use: we saw people in offices and gazebos who probably never voted for the Democratic Party, or who hadn’t voted for the Democratic Party for many years, wanted something and perhaps got it. Probably a party to be crucified without having to hold your nose and live with guilt over the first Minniti decree. With Elly Schlein’s endorsement, the Democratic Party, which no longer represents anyone while trying to please everyone, whether we like their ideas or not, has been swept “but also”. A party tainted by opaque people and methods that are clearly visible even during the count when the results of the polls in some of Campania’s provinces are entered into the computers that collect the data.

A party that in recent years the left has been effectively banned by the massive deception that it is and will always be a minority in the country: it is a half-truth, a partial story, paradoxically rejected by the Party. The post-Berlusconi right, here the party of the heirs of Giorgio Almirante, historically a much larger minority, the 26% from above (or below), is celebrated today as if it represented an overwhelming majority. The numbers are clear, no political force is in the majority in Italy: even when voters, enforced by electoral laws that violate their elections, reluctantly vote for unlikely coalitions between disparate people; but all political forces could aspire to government by garnering just over a quarter of the vote, without a higher rate of abstention than ever, provided they send a clear and believable message to their potential voters.

The challenge of the new secretary

Elly Schlein’s main challenge will be to restore one’s dignity, pride and representation to a depressed segment of the population that has been unmotivated for years, as in a movie scene on Sunday. He gave his definitive signal when he started wiggling his fingers in a deep coma. The Left exists, and if it is well represented, it can go to the polls en masse, provided that those occupying its political space do not see it as something that needs to be “purified”, a dirty word, a sacrificial sacrifice to be burned at the altar. – the so-called “all and nothing” label of reformism that almost everyone in Italy can boast of, even those who have been grazing in the gardens of a villa in Arcore for decades.

The new secretary’s commitment will not be easy: first of all, he will need to resurrect an inactive body battered by bedsores in a kind of political physiotherapy in which elected officials, directors, members, and even simple members participate. Voters will have to go back to thinking of a party – the word says it all – as a means of representing a party, and no longer as a box with everything. A party that clearly and comprehensibly represented the ideas and values ​​of the left, from work to civil rights, with the same confidence and even the same arrogance as those on the other side, was faced with dozens of lifeless bodies. he explains that those who can think of the world as a whole on a beach, not as an orchestra, should not leave their dirty conscience, perhaps to die of hunger and thirst in their “home”. small and drunken musicians.