After a long and gratifying parliamentary experience (1983-1996) as an independent senator elected on the lists of the PCI and then the PDS, since then I have only been a curious observer of the tortuous development/enveloping of the political culture of the Democratic Party. In this latter capacity, but with memories of the time, I was surprised (I would say culturally irritated) by the unexpected interview that the European parliamentarian Salvatore Caronna, who has long since disappeared from the political scene, gave to the Bologna edition of "La Repubblica" on Wednesday last August 21st. I understand that Caronna's return to the political scene requires the use of strong words, but the accusation of "abjuration" that he addresses to the new Renzians goes well beyond a legitimate dissent on a political line, to resort to a language that exudes only contempt and moral condemnation of the most important "neo-Renzian" opponent whose name (Merola) is prudently withheld so as not to generate the suspicion that they want to replace him at the helm of the municipality of Bologna.
It is true that passing to the moralistic accusation is easier than laboriously and culturally realizing the reasons of others. I remember that in his time I voted in the Senate in favor of the war in Iraq, but none of the national leaders of the PDS despised me with moral condemnation, so much so that I was re-nominated and re-elected. Not bad if the case of Bologna were resolved in a political confrontation with tones that I do not agree with, but unfortunately the moral accusation of the adversary unknowingly blinds many leaders of their past to their own past that have not yet come to terms with their own past fully.
In the case of Bologna, when have the political leaders of the left (including Caronna) ever explained to us the political reasons for the disasters brought on the municipal administration in the last fifteen years associated with the names of Guazzaloca, Cofferrati, Delbono? Of these usual self-absolutions, the Merola - Caronna comparison (through Renzism) is a significant example. On the one hand there are those (Merola) who try to understand the reasons for the recent defeats without declining responsibility for these failures and those who (Caronna) seraphicly denounce that “Renzi represents an outdated, old model. Which represents ways of doing politics of the last twenty years”. Yes!
Now, twenty years ago Renzi did not exist. For twenty years the honorable Caronna has been in politics; does it not occur to the seraphic Caronna that he too has been in politics for twenty years with an "outmoded model"? If so, how does he intend to overcome it? Can Caronna tell us where he has promptly made a mistake so that it is clear where he intends to put his hands to create "An organized party, of the left ... ..". If a new "own political culture" is hoped for, what was the previous political culture to reflect on? A leadership victim of opinion makers? Come on, let's be politically serious and warned when we ask voters for the most precious thing: trust. These are trivial questions that a potential voter addresses to supposed leaders who aspire to ask for political trust in their past behavior and promised future ones. But I am not asking for abjurations, but only modesty, acknowledgment of one's mistakes and respect for the opinions of others. I ask the moon ?
