2 pre-election June?

(To Andrea Cucco)
02/06/17

There is never an end to humiliation. The parade of the 2 June has long represented a moment of pride for many servants of the state, a special parenthesis, a public recognition and therefore, thanks in the end. In the sadistic years, the initiatives of the politicians on duty have debased and diluted this privilege up to the recent provocative publication of the official manifesto of the Defense in which you can see the mayors parading under an "Armed Forces celebrate the Republic Day".

Needless to emphasize how much the image has pissed off the vast majority of the military men and women of all the armed forces, from the comfortable offices of XX September to the holes in Afghanistan in which, even today, too many people risk daily (and in silence !) Skin.

But is this reprobation founded?

Let's think about it.

How the defense minister's staff comments on its institutional website "The Republic Day is the day when all Italians express a feeling of belonging to Italy, proud of its history and of what it has been able to build over the years. History that is based on our Constitutional Charter."

The first immediate awareness that one can have in reading these words is that at the Palazzo the princes, the princesses and the long court (a term not to be confused with "cohort") do not have the slightest awareness of what they have reduced Italy to. : a country divided and fundamentally angry with the rulers of today and yesterday. Trying to arouse feelings of unity and belonging with the image of "politicians" is therefore a paradox. It is also so because by now the first party in Italy is that of those who do not go to vote. And if it does not, it is because today it is almost impossible even to “hold one's nose”, certainly not out of laziness.

The second perplexity derives from the general nausea for the ritual rhetorical sacralization of a Constitution written by a defeated, dismembered and humiliated country. We did not free ourselves from the British yoke like the Americans, we lost the last war. It's bad. We are almost a century away, always looking for a master, like a dog with a leash in his mouth. Should we continue to celebrate a surrender treaty with such conviction?

Ordunque dear fellow citizens in uniform, do not take it for the umpteenth upheaval of what you believed "tradition". Do not be indignant asking why they should shamelessly parade "them". Ask yourself why you should do it again.