After communication has been weakened, the judiciary has been curbed, intolerance has spread and legitimized with words that were not spoken until yesterday, we find ourselves where the Trusk bloc honestly told voters that it wanted to go: towards another world. You cannot blame them for cunning or masking their intentions. The Trusks clearly declared their strategy and achieved electoral success with that project
By Walter VELTRONI
I have heard many say, from Trump’s first four years, and in the frenetic digital age, what has changed compared to Obama? Yes, things happened such as revoking climate agreements and sabotaging Obama’s Medicare with maneuvers that left more than two million people without health insurance. But in other areas, in financial policy or international relations, no significant and radical changes have been seen between the different administrations. But I think this time will be different. I believe that between the millennial thinking of Elon Musk and the apocalyptic suggestions of Steve Bannon, we will see a time of fundamental change and not continuity.
It will happen in Ukraine and it will be interesting to follow European politics when Zelensky is left alone, and we will all be dependent on the expansionist self-control of Vladimir Putin. With the hope that he does not intend to go beyond military conquests – already secured.
The world is no longer in the balance of the past and anything is possible. Putin clearly understood this, speaking of the unprecedented geopolitical situation and cultivating the idea of a rediscovered Russian greatness, with the creation of a Eurasian power capable of competing with the Chinese giant. The world is changing its balances and in this context the process of weakening the European Union, eroded by sovereignism and populist nationalism in the member states, is functional for a strategy of remaking economic and financial power relations. If NATO is weaker, if the strategies of authentic European integration – defense and budgetary policies – are neglected, the prospect of a world made up of three fortresses, Russia, China and the US, will emerge.
Steve Bannon said it very clearly in the illuminating interview with Viviana Mazza: “Yes, new duties are coming. You will have to pay to have access to the American market. It is no longer free, the free market is over”.
I believe that the strategy of the Trusk bloc is broader and should be considered as it is, without arrogant reductions to the folklore of a line that feeds on analysis, tools and clear goals. Democracy, as a mechanism based on the popular vote and mediation represented by delegation, starting from parliaments, is a sacred thing and incompatible with an instant society like the digital one. From this perspective, it is paradoxical that the critique of globalization is based on the postulate that the only universal dimension allowed is that of technological markets, at least in the sphere of consumption and in the dynamics of communication and relationships, with social media turned into a global hall. Musk has recently argued that newspapers and television do not serve to guarantee communication, that the only possible truth is that produced by tens of millions of people who simultaneously upload viewpoints and news to the Internet, it matters little whether they are based on reality or not. A hundred thousand who become nobody and one, only one, who decides.
The scheme is the same as that applied in politics: allowing a confusing noise in the background, however critical, while one person makes decisions in the name of the people. Similarly, in social media, algorithms regulate the balance of power between isolated individuals and sophisticated machines that flood the Internet with news, real or invented, in which the need for knowledge and the illusion of relationships are consumed.
After communication has been weakened, the judiciary has been curbed, intolerance has spread and legitimized with words that were not spoken until yesterday, we find ourselves where the Trusk bloc honestly told the voters that it wanted to go: towards another world. You cannot blame them for cunning or disguised intentions. The Trusks clearly declared their strategy and achieved electoral success with that project. Fast and furious. On the first Tuesday of November, the Republicans did not simply win, something more is emerging: a revolutionary power project for this time. To stammer out a rejection of all this in the name of political correctness or to passionately debate whether, on the left, we should be more moderate or more extremist is a waste of time. Roosevelt, with Mussolini in power and the Great Depression in his wake, did not sit idly by. He created the New Deal.
