{"id":74865,"date":"2013-02-28T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T09:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/28\/viva-beppe-et-vive-la-democratie\/"},"modified":"2013-02-28T09:23:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T09:23:08","slug":"viva-beppe-et-vive-la-democratie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/28\/viva-beppe-et-vive-la-democratie\/","title":{"rendered":"Viva<\/em> Beppe ! (Et vive la d\u00e9mocratie\u2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Viva<\/em> Beppe ! (Et vive la d\u00e9mocratie)<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

\tLa d\u00e9mocratie marche, nous dit-on depuis si longtemps, avec un clin d’il torve \u00e0 P\u00e9ricl\u00e8s Eh bien, pourquoi pas ? Quand le Syst\u00e8me et ses serviteurs atteignent un tel degr\u00e9 de folie o\u00f9 on les voit s’agiter aujourd’hui, le bon usage de la d\u00e9mocratie s’apparente alors, pour suivre la pens\u00e9e de Chesterton, \u00e0 un direct, du droit ou du gauche peu importe, port\u00e9 sans m\u00e9nagement dans la t\u00eate de celui qui ne veut ni entendre ni \u00e9couter. Ainsi Simon Jenkins r\u00e9sume-t-il la philosophie de l’acte d\u00e9mocratique pos\u00e9 ce dernier week-end en Italie : \u00abChange will only come, as Chesterton said, with a sharp blow to the head and from a blunt instrument. That instrument is the ballot.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tDans le Guardian<\/em> du 27 f\u00e9vrier 2013<\/a>, Jenkins commente la victoire de Beppe Grillo en Italie au travers d’une description superbe de l’ab\u00eeme de folie qui s’est empar\u00e9 des dirigeants europ\u00e9ens depuis quatre ans, appliquant une politique suicidaire d’aust\u00e9rit\u00e9 : \u00abLeaders (and their bankers) claim that austerity is a necessary punishment, to be visited on European people for allowing their governments to borrow beyond their means.<\/em> [] The message is<\/em> [] take the medicine, even if it is poison.<\/em>\u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLe commentaire de Simon Jenkins montre combien le fait m\u00eame des ripostes extr\u00eames des population devient l’unique possibilit\u00e9 de r\u00e9sister \u00e0 l’agression extr\u00eame lanc\u00e9e contre elles. Il ne s’en \u00e9meut pas, au contraire des commentateurs-Syst\u00e8me et s\u00e9rieux (type Apatti sur RTL et Canal +<\/em>, s’exclamant tr\u00e8s s\u00e9rieusement : Ils sont fous, ces Italiens) ; au contraire, il n’est pas si loin de trouver du g\u00e9nie aux citoyens de la d\u00e9mocratie italienne, dans ce paysage de ruines qu’est devenu l’Europe ce qui montre que, tout en restant lui-m\u00eame un commentateur s\u00e9rieux, Jenkins n’est plus tout \u00e0 fait un commentateur-Syst\u00e8me. (Les Britanniques vont-ils conna\u00eetre une aventure semblable, avec John O’Farrell<\/a>, com\u00e9dien devenu politicien pour l’occasion, et actuellement engag\u00e9 dans une \u00e9lection partielle ?) Manifestement, Jenkins semble voir Beppe comme Mao voyait les Cent Fleurs : Que cent Beppe s’\u00e9panouissent !, et cela dit en songeant \u00e0 l’Europe toute enti\u00e8re. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abOh happy day. The Italian election result is a triumph for democracy. No pope, no government, no police chief, went yesterday’s viral tweet, hailing the arrival in Rome of punk politics. The outcome is an antidote, not just to Italy’s corrupt politics, but to the dogma of austerity that now has Europe’s economy by the throat. The only way of loosening its grip is through the ballot. Congratulations, Italy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe most spectacular victor is Beppe Grillo, a rollicking satirist but with a clear message: that austerity, the euro and corruption are jointly to blame for Italy’s continuing ills. We can argue the issues, but why bother when no one listens? Just tell those in charge, as he says, to fuck off. When politicians banned Grillo from TV, he turned to the blog and the piazza. His knockout blow was the ballot.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbGrillo’s chief victim is the short-lived prime minister, Mario Monti. He was pushed into office by the banks a year ago to impose unlimited suffering on the Italian economy, so as to shore up the euro and thus protect German and other bank loans from devaluation. Darling of the bankers’ ramp, he was Super-Mario.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbLike Greece and with no local currency to take the strain, the Italian economy had to be waterboarded. It shrank by at least 2.2% last year, with official unemployment at about 10%. Monti promised to hold the Italian economy in its downward spiral, without growth and ever less able to repay its mounting debt. Future generations would be in perpetual bondage to German banks.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbGrillo spoke for those generations. His one roughly coherent policy may be a referendum on the euro, but leaving the euro is the key that unlocks the prison door. Even the revival of the outrageous Silvio Berlusconi is good news: his irresponsibility might contribute to pushing Italy into financial crisis and eventual salvation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbFor what seems an entire decade, Europe is to be dominated by the politics of austerity, a gamble with the economy of an entire continent on a par with that of the 1920s. Leaders (and their bankers) claim that austerity is a necessary punishment, to be visited on European people for allowing their governments to borrow beyond their means. The policy offers no growth to pay off the debts, and for the eurozone no devaluation to reduce their incidence. The message is forget Keynes and take the medicine, even if it is poison.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbDespite being outside the euro straitjacket, Britain’s George Osborne holds that austerity knows no bounds. As he starves the economy of demand and it duly shrinks, his revenue slides and the debt and deficit rise. There is a classic vicious circle. Sooner or later, austerity becomes an end, not a means: an obsessive self-flagellation. These finance ministers are like Aztec priests at an altar. If the blood sacrifice fails to deliver rain, there must be more blood.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbYou can fool a democracy only so long. The current anti-Keynesian dogma has lasted four years and is just not working. In Greece and Spain, unemployment is touching an appalling quarter of the workforce. France is in trouble and, even in Germany, the strain is telling as growth falls. Europe’s leaders are steadily dragging their joint economies towards depression, afflicting their competitive relation with the outside world possibly for ever. Nor can they blame others. They are doing it to themselves, voluntarily, in obeisance to the gods of confidence, who long ago abandoned them.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbClearly no new idea will dent these dogmatists. Economists are to modern government what doctors were to tobacco companies, as good as the last fee. Change will only come, as Chesterton said, with a sharp blow to the head and from a blunt instrument.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThat instrument is the ballot<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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