The (many) contradictions of the left that condemns Moratti- Corriere.it

The contempt with which on the left was accepted the candidacy of Letizia Moratti to the Lombardy Region
. The lawyer Giuliano Pisapia, sul Courier, he dismissed it as pure and simple lust for power: rejected to the right his inordinate ambitions, here is Donna Letizia pursuing them elsewhere. The actress Octavia Piccoloon Donehe adds that supporting it would mean “falling below the threshold of decency”, it would be equivalent to nominating “La Russa’s sister, if she has one.”

Of course there are understandable reasons why a voter leftist does not want to vote for a former minister of Berlusconi (among the best, by the way). But there’s no good reason to condemn her as an unscrupulous, power-hungry turncoat, a right-wing Trojan horse into the camp of brave democratic resisters, or what’s left of it.

The refusal is fundamentally based on this argument: Moratti is center-right. Mind you: it does not “come from”, but it “is” center-right. Almost as if it were an anthropological trait, a genetic flaw, from which one cannot heal even by publicly and loudly leaving the political part in which he was active. Semel right, always right. Who is born round cannot die square. And so on.

This (pre) judgment stems from an idea of ​​the coalition led by Giorgia Meloni as an absolute evil, a danger to democracy, a receptacle of values ​​contrary to the basic principles of humanity and progress. Forget whether this is true or not. But it is really if it were true that the fatted calf should be killed to celebrate the prodigal son detached from that dark and threatening world, to welcome every refugee who abandons the ship of fools. Indeed, it could be said that the more Letizia Moratti is considered right-wing, the more she should open the doors to her; because she could help break into the enemy’s Lombard safe. With unpredictable outcomes on a national level, and certainly useful for a center-left today beaten and astonished, defeated and out of the game.

Paradoxically, it would make more sense to say: we do not want to support Moratti because she does not really belong to the world of the Lombard center-right, and therefore cannot intercept their votes. But this would be the ABC of politics, a discipline long abandoned by the heirs of the PCI and the DC, parties that knew very well that the aim of their action was to win the elections. In the Democratic Party, on the other hand, a moralistic condemnation of power has coexisted easily with an unscrupulous eagerness to take it for some time.

On the other hand, not even from the point of view of public morality so much animosity against Letizia Moratti is explained. She is accused of being a quick change for abandoning her side of her. But transformist is the one who transfers the consents obtained from one party to the service of another. Trasformista is a parliamentarian who changes his shirt. Moratti instead presents herself to the electorate’s judgment on the basis of the motivated choice to leave the center-right, even at the cost of a defeat: she would seem the opposite of transformism.

Nor do you see what he would have gained from it in terms of power from this decision of his. He was a councilor in Lombardy and now he is no longer. She could have been appointed managing director of the Milan-Cortina Olympics, and she refused. She certainly deserved a ministry, given the names of the ministers, but she was too embarrassing for anyone. Yet there are those who would prefer to lose the elections rather than ally with her, despite the partisan father, despite having brought the Expo to Milan together with Prodi, and despite the current mayor, Beppe Sala, was its city manager.

A test of consistency
perinde ac cadaver with the values ​​of the left: especially on the part of those who had welcomed Giuseppe Conte as a «very strong leader of progressives» when the ink of his signature on Salvini’s security decrees had not yet dried.

“Maybe – wrote an author certainly not right-wingNatalia Aspesi on Lto the Republic
– the lost Pd, who took sides against himself by participating in the march for peace in Rome, will be able to find one of his representatives who do not know with what exorcisms he will conquer Lombardy. “In the meantime, it would already be something if he stopped insulting who he is already on the front line against what should be the common enemy.