For days there has been controversy regarding Bonaccini’s statements that the vote cast in favor of the right comes from those who have “studied little, from those living in internal areas or city outskirts, and from those who are worse off economically.” A strong statement, hardly respectful or aware. A snobbish and unacceptable consideration from a representative of an arrogant left convinced of being the bearer of the truth. This caused dismay, but if we think carefully, we realize that it is not a spontaneous late summer statement influenced by the heat, but the hallmark of an intellectual approach typical of a left that does not accept dialectical confrontation with those who express a different idea.
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After all, we should not be surprised since the single thought was the basis of the affirmation of communist regimes where the hallmark was the repression of dissent and aimed at banning and criminalizing any alternative current of thought. Bonaccini, a worthy heir of such a communist culture, re-proposes a scheme and responds to the same logic by essentially stating that those who do not vote left are wrong and ignorant and unaware.
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I believe that at this point the time has come in our country for intellectuals (much more qualified than the writer) of the right to take a strong position because I am tired of witnessing a pantomime representation of elitist superiority by a supposed left-wing intelligentsia, afflicted by an incorrigible superiority complex, which never misses an opportunity to give free and unsolicited lessons. To Bonaccini, I would like to clarify that the offensiveness of his words is a litmus test of a partial and unacceptable culture in which the conscious sensitivity of choices is entrusted to academic qualifications. An extremely dangerous and slippery start, especially if triggered by someone who proposes to give lessons without having the title to do so.
Bonaccini, after all, with his diploma and his work career (he has never done a job, being exclusively engaged in politics as far as is known) should be careful when he speaks, remembering that his income has been guaranteed solely and exclusively by all Italian citizens. The same citizens he essentially calls unaware. The same citizens (like the writer) who have made sacrifices to study and who legitimately believe in values different from his. Values based on respect for others’ opinions. Values in which social class does not determine a position of advantage. Values such as respect for the State and Institutions. Values such as the desire to live in a country where there is a proper balance between rights and duties.
Values such as the hope to see merit prevail and through which our children are no longer forced to emigrate to have their talent recognized. Honorable Bonaccini, these are the reasons why I vote for Meloni and support the center-right. Because I feel represented by these ideas. And if you should, for my free exercise of the right to vote, continue to consider and label me ignorant, I will come to terms with it proudly remembering that the one who elevated ignorance to the rank of a philosophical category was a certain Socrates, whose company would honor me and give the right meaning to my choices and my existence (apologizing for daring to represent a cultural expression in the presence of a representative of the left-wing intelligentsia).
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