The public debate? Fucked up. A chat with Roccella. Between Spritz and freedom

“I never said you shouldn’t give personal names to dogs,” he articulates. “I never said that in Italy people don’t have children because they prefer Spritz,” she adds. “I have never compared the Santanchè case with that of Enzo Tortora,” she concludes. Then Eugenia Roccella, Minister for Equal Opportunities and the Familysmiles and speaks with the tone of one who seeks to obtain something with sweetness and patience: “Reading all the thoughts that are attributed to me, and often not recognizing me in even a comma, is making me reflect a lot on the risk of a public debate in which articulated thoughts are simplified to the point of being deformed into pure idiocy. On the one hand there is a widespread form of impatience, an absolute lack of intellectual curiosity, that is, a lack of desire to understand others. On the other hand, there is an excess of political manipulation of everything that leads to furious levels of schematism. Are you Catholic? Then you must also be bigoted, moralistic, surly and homophobic. But I come from a family of Radicals! How do we put it?”.