There are men and non-men. The former, following Elio Vittorini’s parameters, are the enlightened ones who arise from the French Revolution and have brought knowledge to the world. The latter are the horror – a word to be intoned with the voice of Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now – read as the fascists. The former are cultured and intellectual, in the style of Alain Elkann in the summer of 2023 reading Proust on the train to Foggia alongside noisy young people called “lanzichenecchi,” voters of the broad field. The latter, it goes without saying, on the ballot choose Brothers of Italy, League, Forza Italia, and the worst National Future. The rhetoric of the president of the Democratic Party, Stefano Bonaccini, namely the one that sees right-wing voters as a plethora of ignorants, is a Pavlovian reflex that antifascism has brought to the left. Moral superiority unable to be contained, as if it were Tourette’s syndrome.
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In November 2019 Corrado Augias, from the La7 studios, during the program diMartedì hosted by Giovanni Floris, carved the manifesto of this thesis. “Being right-wing is easy.” Applause in the room. “It means going towards those instinctive drives that almost everyone has. And which are instead moderated and perhaps better directed by reasoning, by knowledge of the topics, by a noble sense of altruism. By many things. Being left-wing is more difficult.
The left-wing person plays on a field where knowledge of the topics is fundamental, the right-wing person says ‘immigrants disgust me’ end of discussion. It ends there.” No circumlocution, straight to the point. Enough to make even Bonaccini’s frankness pale. How not to recall the monologue, this time on Rai3 in 2022 when Che tempo che fa was still on the state broadcaster, by Michele Serra a couple of weeks before Meloni took office at Palazzo Chigi.
“In my next life, if ‘Being right-wing is easy. It means going towards those instinctive drives that almost everyone has. And which are instead moderated and perhaps better directed by reasoning. Being left-wing is more difficult’.
Life on the left is too complicated, as if simplicity were a vice.” Of course, because “on the left people always talk, they talk.” “On the right, they don’t make all these stories. Who is the top candidate in our district? Genghis Khan. Who, the one from the Golden Horde? Yes, it’s him, but it was a long time ago and he has changed. Okay, then if he has changed, no problem.” On the right instead, Cazzullo dixit, one leader is enough to solve the troubles. Even the electoral ones. “Life on the right is simpler, more carefree.” In other words? “Are there elections? Great, no problem. Roll call of those present: whoever is there is there. Everything is gathered in a nice little bundle, tied with string.” They would be capable of electing even Genghis Khan. “Who, the one from the Golden Horde? Yes, it’s him, but it was a long time ago and he has changed. Okay, then if he has changed, no problem.
We calmly, serenely vote for Genghis Khan.” Barely concealed irony. And in cinema? Let’s take Paolo Virzì, just take a step back and return to 2024.
Release of the film Un altro ferragosto. In the film appears Cesare played by Vinicio Marchioni. That is, the future husband, muscular and tattooed, of Sabry the influencer pursued by right-wing parties. “Paolo – the actor told Repubblica – only told me: he is one with the eyes of a cow. Perfect synthesis to define his intellectual lack: an ignorant fascist, a parvenu who takes advantage of his partner, a terrible partner. We built him thinking of the toxic masculinity of the Bianchi brothers, the murderers of Colleferro.” In summary, how the left sees what is other than itself. Returning to 2026 it is impossible not to remember the words of the mayor of Genoa, Silvia Salis. “Growing up in a left-wing family gives you a great advantage: learning to nurture positive feelings in others, not fear.”
Of course, right-wing families can also rehabilitate the Sawyers from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. We close by addressing Natalia Aspesi. At the beginning of the year interviewed by Robinson, the cultural supplement of Repubblica, to the question if she would like to be right-wing she answered: “For heaven’s sake. I am old, but I am not stupid.” The unfit are us, it is you: those outside the ZTL of thought. Those “insensitive” to the moral question raised by the Berlinguer-Scalfari duo, but above all deliberately lacking political eligibility licenses.
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