“The fox and the grapes” is one of the most famous fables in the history of humanity which is attributed to the Greek Aesop. Like all fairy tales, “the fox and the grapes” also has a moral, a teaching that comes through a metaphor which, however, not everyone understands. Above all, those who enjoy doing politics and, especially, those who do politics in our latitudes do not understand it. Aesop, in fact, describing the attitude of the fox (how many Italian politicians consider themselves subtle strategists and more cunning than the fox…) details the reaction of those who, faced with a defeat, claim to have never desired the victory and the prize that they did not obtain. «The grapes were sour», the fox will say after not being able to eat them; «the candidate is not yet mature», our wonderful politicians say. In short, reality is bent to (their) desires, indeed there is no longer a reality to deal with but only a fiction good for every occasion.
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