praise of the German system
Theodor Adorno in his Minima Moralia, wrote that "a German is someone who can not tell a lie without believing it." Not exactly a eulogy of "German" (Deutschtum) and its critical spirit. The fact is that the exit polls in Germany are among the most accurate in Europe, demonstrating the reliability of the voters of that country who generally do not lie in the face of polls (as opposed to what they do routinely Japanese colleagues).
With modest fear of contradiction, we can argue, therefore, that the final results that will come from this night should reflect the trends of exit polling.
If we stop to consider the winners and the losers of this election has shown the abysmal distance currently existing between Italy and Germany, not only in terms of political civilization, but also in terms of overall functionality of the political system.
The winner of this election is leading the safety of the FDP, Guido Westerwelle, the balance of the new German political life. Intellectual liberal, openly gay, Westerwelle was born the same year as Obama and comes from a party that fails to give political credibility to the liberal proposal. Not only because it boasts such illustrious predecessors politicians the likes of Friedrich Neumann, Walther Rathenau, Gustav Stresemann, just to name a few, but because it threatens their own, submitting to the voters his policy proposal. Of which Europe, Turkey and openness to integration of immigrants are leading issues.
In Italy, on the contrary, we are faced with a liberalism "widespread" doc-called liberals are in all parties, without having ever felt the need for an independent party candidate in the elections. Much of their hand has not found something better to do than support the prime minister more populist, anti-European and the last centocinquan'anni racist.
He also wins the "girl of the East" Angela Merkel, who remains one of very few women (if not the only one) to becoming prime minister in continental Europe. Vince basically for two reasons, that put it here too much away by his fellow center-right Italian: first, because it manages to be very centrist and argued for the social economy, the correlation between capital and labor, contrary to gifts to the banks. Second, because it is a power with a human face, a woman next door. That sobriety insistently invoked by the ecclesiastical hierarchy Italian, having plenty gattopardeggiato with the "friendly government". The distance from homegrown
things can not be reduced even if you turn your gaze to the left. Stands the impressive advanced Linke, a party that has managed to shake off the patina of socialism that still belonged to the companions of the PDS and was able to better represent the concerns for the fate imposed the heaviest weight loss of social status' continental Europe. The Link is able to do what in Italy at least fifteen years the so-called radical left-wing Italian says it will do, never do that: competing and empty "left" reformist cousins, pressing on their contradictions.
no coincidence that the cousins \u200b\u200bof the SPD lost in a disastrous, returning to the percentages Adenauer era, when they had not yet created that Wohlfartstaat who made their political fortunes since the second world war. A necessary reflection is necessary on this party: whether by dint of being a copy of the "center" (the SPD's own posters in the slogan "Die Neue Mitte", the new center), does not go to the voters prefer the original especially if it appears with the reassuring look of maternal and Merkel.
Finally, abysmal distance is between ours and the German electoral system. This system is now, it is of little appeal among minority and our constitutional and politicians, who have felt increasingly drawn to the grandeur of French or bipartisanship stars and stripes. Undoubtedly, the German constitutional history is not as glorious as it is a system that was essentially imposed on the table by winners of a people defeated in war. But failed - with very few changes since its creation - to ensure stability of government and political alternatives, in a framework of proportional representation and federal levels. The famous dam of 4% did not prevent either the rise of born by the movements of 68 Grünen and the PDS (later merged into Die Linke), as a voice of social discontent in the former East Germany. All this will
not enough? We Apparently not. Especially when compared with recent performances of the Italian political system, who originally took off in the direction of America, has landed the parts of Putin's Russia.
Vincenzo Mele
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