Lately Silvio got all lovey-dovey. "Love," he says, "will triumph over hate and envy". Wow! Really? And where have I heard that before? He is a walking cliche, vexing and hypocritical at that. And he can't be more hypocritical than when he tries to embody "love", or when he says, he "loves everybody". The word "love" sounds strange out of his mouth and certainly not as seen in the scheme of his political thinking. Because if it were so, he would
distance himself from a party of hate like the Northern League. He would rather enact racist laws, persecute roms, discriminate against their children, deny citizenship to honest, tax-paying immigrants, deny freedom of religion, freedom of speech and send cops door-to-door in search of people of color to run out of town so that the citizenry can celebrate a "white Christmas", as they put it. Berlusconi's party is, (or was till they got picked up for fraud or something or like that) in bed with people who endorse strangling gays, and fascists whose very ideology is about hate. The premier sold his soul to Bossi in exchange for the premiership and now hate is going systemic. Who could be envious of a man like that?

The problem with Italy.

The problem with Italy, is not Berlusconi, he loves italian without envy, (as long as he gets whatever he wants), nor that he controls the media.
The problem with Italy is the opposition - which many say does not exists - which is false becuase like it or not, there is an opposition present in the actual parliament and government.

The question is - why are they there ?

And the problem that the italian opposition has, is not that they are weak, non-united, but that basically, they seem to not mind that Italy is now a totalitarian regime, under one master.

And if Italy is under a regime, however weak and disunited the opposition may be - they should protest, whenever, wherever - ALL THE TIME, that for them it is unacceptable to be part of a parliament / government which has become totalitarian right under everyones noses.

The only opposition party in Italy which acts as real opposition, is aware of the regime and manifest their protests, is he IDV, Italia dei Valori ( Italy of Values) of Di Pietro.

Why does the main italian opposition, Pd - democratic party - Bersani - not really oppose a regime ?

Because they fail to see that many italian are starving for a new option, a new opposition, and are still playing their cards on the mainstream of italian voters' preferences.
Or so they think.

Bersani and the PD are worried, that if they start being an opposing opposition, that the italian voter would become disinfranchised and would pass over to the Berlusconi regime's parties.

Well, many Italians have passed over to the Northern League party, chosing the lesser evil from :
real evil - Berlusconi,
and the lesser evil, a complete empty and insignificant void which the PD, through Veltroni, Franceschini and now Bersani has become.

These voters tend to forget or ignore that the Northern league is a main supporting pillar of Berlusconi, also, partially hoping that once Italy gets rid of Mr. B, then the only serious people able to manage the country will in fact be the Northern League.

This is not my own personal analisys, or notions taken from other pundits.
This is what my many italian friends, most of whom absolutely hate Berlusconi, tell me - how they voted in the last italian elections.

Some of them now realize the mistake they made, that of getting Berlusconi back in government, but - they say they would vote the Northern League yet again at the next elections - still hoping to see the back of Berlusconi, but probably not the beginning of a new Democratic Party, who ... if elected would probably be a similar disaster to what Berlusconi is today.
Probably not as corrupt, but in dissaray all the same.

What a dilemma.

So, what, where and mainly WHO ... is the solution to the italian problem ?

Who could govern Italy, democratically, but at the same time stop corruption, and get Italy back on the rails ?

Probably someone like Mussolini.

Or, honest businessmen/women, and people who understand and have a solid background in each government sector.

The minister of health should be a doctor in the least, but have economics experts to back him up.

The minister of justice, should be a judge.

The minister of education, should be a university rector, and not someone who got the job because she has nice legs.

The minister of international affairs should be a longstanding diplomat who at least speaks english, and good italian too.

The minister of the armed forces should be an ex admiral.

The minister of fair opportunities should be someone like Emma Bonino and not a calendar model.

The minister of economy, should not be Italian.

Any minister, should not have been involved in anything illegal, nor suspected of it.

No minister should have any personal interests in matters of his own ministry domain.

Ok, if all of the above fails, the italians should vote the present governments of Denmark and Norway, to mention just two of the most obvious as their leaders.

Since none of the above are likely to happen very soon, the future of Italy is bleak, and will remain so until real poverty spreads to 70% of italian households, who will then vote whatever party suggests taking the riches from the rich, to give to the poor ... and to the regime itself.
Hence - communism in the old style of Mao and Stalin.

The moral of this, is that most other citizens of Europe: Germans, English, French, Spanish, sheesh, even the Portugese and maybe even the Greeks, etc, should consider themselves very lucky, because whatever leader, govenment, economic policies you have in your country now, however bad they may be ... it could be a lot worse.

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