"I have never looked at events from the point of view of governments, always with the eyes of the humblest, of those who pay the price themselves." In the face of the collective tragedies of recent months, Michele Santoro feels the need to raise a cry of alarm against the horror that now leaves us indifferent. In this shocking and impassioned denunciation he does not discount and subjects to fierce criticism all the great contradictions that have led us to the brink of the abyss: a democracy blocked by an inconclusive and unprepared politics, which sees no alternative but to rely on technicians and savior knights; the parable of populism that has shown all its limits in the defeat of the 5 Star Movement, which had also emerged as a disruptive force capable of stirring the waters of a politics insensitive to citizens' problems; a news media now a megaphone of propaganda, from which not only dissent but any questioning is banished, and which is reduced to chasing and exaggerating specious issues, without affecting the fate of the country. A j'accuse that calls on everyone to restore meaning to the word "democracy" by starting again with the right questions.