"Rhetoric of the left" is very short so I will read "I've always found rhetorical emptiness the national anthem, not the good Mameli, who was also so young and therefore justifiable, but because every song is necessarily rhetorical. Now that sings Benigni do not see why I should change my mind. If we were to sing it in one piece, there would be nothing short verses also embarrassing for those who believe in democracy. That Italy is united in its cultural and social growth of a country is fine with me that Italy is united in rhetoric or pride of the soldiers volemosebene not. Pride is a feeling dangerous, do not see why I should feel proud to be Italian, when it should mean that I prefer to be an Italian rather than French or Latvian or Kurdish or American or Israeli. I belong to any nationality would be irrelevant, because I believe that patriotism is something more than empty and dangerous. And in the end is not that come from this war? It is the national anthems? It is not by us unite? The flags? When the news gives news of a disaster or a terrorist attack abroad, they hasten to say that among the victims there are Italian. But, subject to the concerns of the relatives of the victims, why should I feel relieved if among hundreds of deaths there are Italians? Others are not dead? Is it any less sorry if the dead do not speak our language? Responding to the rhetoric of the League with an even more old rhetoric does not seem useful. No, Benigni who sings the national anthem does not move me at all and actually worries me a left that seems to respond to the lack of morality and the arrogance of the rulers with a blind bigotry or empty rhetoric. "
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