The fear of power

Authoritarian democracies, as ours proved to be during the Covid flu epidemic, as well as tyrannies, deliberately instill fear in their subjects to keep them in a state of awe. Fear is a primary reaction common to all humans and animals, with an indispensable function of adaptation to the environment. It is a natural protection against danger, survival or avoidance of events perceived as negative for balance and well-being. Fear is a powerful weapon of operant conditioning, causing behavioural modifications through positive or negative reinforcement.

Reward or punishment as a response to direct where the powers that be desire, in a subtle or brutal form depending on the methods used. Niccolò Machiavelli, the founder of modern political science, advises the Prince, the symbol of authority, to use fear, according to the motto attributed to him “...the end justifies the means...”. A cynical strategy, devoid of nobility, foreign to the thought of Tradition that holds respect for rules and the given word sacred, but certainly effective.

The terminal phases of regimes inevitably end in periods of Terror, the French Revolution, the Soviet Revolution and the twilight of surveillance capitalism. The weapon of fear has always been the prerogative of Power and hardly in History do we remember Governments prey to fear, which instead chronically afflicts the conservative Italian Government. Fear of the Opposition's negative judgement, the worst in Italian history, heavily conditions its political strategy and choices. An Opposition that is the servant of the financial powers, far from the interests of the people, traitorous to the poorer classes, but above all lacking in ideas and programs, intimidates a Government elected by the Italians.

Ministers who have defended national borders are at risk of imprisonment, others who have relaunched identity culture and put an end to the Left's scandalous waste, have been forced to resign for having done their duty. Regional governors pushed out of office for alleged malfeasance that has never been proven, young militants spied on in private meetings to expose them to the reprobation of the enslaved media for a goliardic chant or an opinion that differed from the dominant culture. Election stalls destroyed, militants assaulted, meeting spaces denied, conferences banned to intellectuals not servants of the Single Thought, all without due political response. State laws disregarded by politicized magistrates without the sanctioning intervention of the Ministry of Justice, total control of communication without a strong counter-information action.

Parties that have always been involved in scandals and robberies lecture and set themselves up as judges of those who sing out of tune, without shame and without authority. Regional governors responsible for deaths and huge damage due to floods are not investigated, on the contrary they are rewarded with election to important political offices. Presidents of the Council of Ministers who are responsible for serious violations of citizens' personal freedom with destructive consequences on public health and the economy continue undaunted in their wretched mission. Thousands of innocent dead, unable to access effective treatment replaced by “acetaminophen and watchful waiting” and to impose dangerous drugs that have never been tested, remain without justice.

Just as all the irreparably damaged people, young people, athletes rendered permanently incapacitated will have no compensation, while their executioners sit quietly in Parliament. Others - equally dangerous - imposed with low political maneuvers and never elected by the people, they have destroyed the national economy with the notorious austerity policies that have sunk companies and starved families, they quietly pursue their work against national interests. All the way down to the one whom an emeritus president of the Republic called a ‘vile businessman liquidator of national industry’ for the scandalous Britannia yacht deal, which imposed the green pass causing thousands of jobs to be lost.

Parties that elect convicted felons and perpetrators of serious crimes rise up because an honest minister has a mistress, as if it were a sin against the people. Progressive politicians who deliberately destroyed public health care for low economic interests now cry scandal over the tragic situation they created. Trade unions that are servants of big capital that instead of denouncing the misdeeds of the car company that has prospered by exploiting taxpayers' money and is now laying off workers and leaving them in misery, are concerned with differentiated autonomy. The state that has the lowest pensions and wages in Europe, shameful taxes, third-world social services and the tragic record of deaths at work, also has the most subservient trade unions to high finance. A long list of those responsible for the disaster of the most beautiful nation in the world, which could live in abundance and instead languishes with six million absolute poor, regularly go unpunished and pursue their fraudulent and criminal aims.

Those responsible for the nation's nefarious deeds must be removed from public office, parties that elect convicted criminals must be outlawed, and magistrates who do not respect the law must be suspended from their duties. After years of persecution against identity forces, it is time to re-establish Justice, exposing those responsible for the nation's collapse. Freeing ourselves from fear, from the dictatorship of progressive moral superiority, from the lies of hypocritical and corrupt politicians, is an urgent need. The enemies of the Italian people must be courageously unmasked: no connivance with the saboteurs of the Nation, no discount to the destroyers of the welfare state. The trust of the electorate and popular support are earned by applying justice without discounts and favoritism to the enemies of the Italian people. Freedom and independence flourish in courage not in the blackmail of fear.

Original column by Roberto Giacomelli:

https://identitario.org/la-paura-del-potere/

Translation by Costantino Ceoldo