“We live in the midst of worry, anxiety clouds the future and we predict new disasters in every newspaper we read” said the sixteenth president of the United States Abraham Lincoln a century and a half ago. We Italians are experts at this. Especially with this resistance, we are in a constant state of worry. “Under a right-wing government, crime spreads” we hear every day, but yesterday, with the available data, we learned that the opposite is happening, namely crime is decreasing. Let’s take tariffs, a terrible measure that Donald Trump decided: “By pandering to the president, Meloni is leading us to ruin”, has become unpopular in recent months. But the data says otherwise, in fact (it is not clear how and why) – also yesterday’s news – Italian exports to America have increased by more than thirty percent. With warnings of fascism, they break our eardrums, but the only fascism circulating is the fascism of their young friends who yesterday also destroyed cities and beat the police. And what about concerns about freedom of information being threatened by right-wing groups? That this is talked about so often and in every forum – a clear contradiction – thus gives rise to the ugly thought that sometimes a little censorship would not be an absolute crime. Yes, and what about the “this judicial reform wants to make judges subordinate to the government” concerns? That in the text there is not a single line, not even a single word or even a comma, that allows us to imagine such a hypothesis. One of the most recent warnings in chronological order is about gold: “They also want to tax family jewels,” which would actually be a serious problem if it were true. But actually no, no one ever imagined dealing with jewelry and the like. I imagine the exhaustion of those who wake up every morning and have the task of creating and sounding the day’s alarm. And also the unlucky ones – commentators, MPs and people who have nothing to do with social media – are forced to take inspiration from Wikipedia, which turns out to be the bible of the politically correct left.
The moral of the fable is precisely in the fable, namely Aesop’s fable about “to the wolf, to the wolf”: those who lie too often will not be believed, even when – like a broken clock that shows the correct time twice a day – they always tell the truth.
