Remember the beautiful Steven Spielberg movie "Lincoln" that tells the parliamentary battle for the abolition of slavery through the approval of the 13th amendment of the American Constitution? The film shows Lincoln's ability, and if you want the ruthlessness, to get to have the majority of the votes of the deputies. The president did not hesitate to bribe some representatives of the people or to blackmail others in order to obtain the vote of the uncertain or to change the opinion of those who, until a few days before, were considered convinced slaveholders. Thus was approved a law that changed the history of the United States and probably the world.
Here with us the approval of the Cirinnà reform, beyond the contents that exist anyway, given that it is a question of recognizing new rights for a category of citizens, is causing a small political storm. On the one hand, the fundamentalist Catholics threaten to make Renzi pay for it by voting against the referendum on the constitutional reform, and on the other, the left of the Democratic Party is tearing its clothes to pieces due to the confluence of votes from the Verdini Group in support of the Government. The 5 Stars for wanting to be too smart, find themselves irrelevant as usual.
What is striking are the empty ones talk of the left PD, on the change of the majority, even if Verdini's votes were not decisive, and on the need to be truly leftist. But the old group leader of the PD Speranza does not explain what it means to maintain one's identity on the left. In fact, what could be more leftist than the approval of a law on gay rights that has been awaited for many years and that no government, even of the left, had managed to get approved? The truth that once again Renzi has shown that he has something extra.
Of course it is unscrupulous, but what matters was to bring home the new law. And in a few weeks no one will remember the tortuous parliamentary paths and the grumblings of right, left and center extremists.
