A phantom politician is the spirit of a dead person that doesn’t realise he has died and continues to roam around the places where he once lived. Just like haunted houses are inhabited by the ghosts of those that have passed on, the Italian State is inhabited by the ghosts of former politicians. The spirits that haunt houses reveal their presence via apparitions, noises, moving objects and through mediums, who are people that are able to communicate with the world beyond. The politician that has passed on uses the media to spread their ectoplasm through the ether. Messrs. Fede, Floris and Minzolini pluck the voices and the faces of Berlusconi, Lupi, D'Alema, Fini, Bersani, Casini and Gasparri out of the confused magma and project them into the reality perceived by the Italians as mere holograms of a world that has long since ceased to exist. Reality and perceived reality overlap, they merge and become one in the minds of the Italians. Many believe that Berlusconi really exists and that he is governing this Country, and that Bersani and Fini are providing opposition. The Italians are psychologically weak, their will has been undermined. And so we see millions of defenceless people being possessed by the spirits of the most evil politicians. These millions of people recognise the politicians’ faces on the election posters and keep on re-electing them, election after election. In some exceptional cases, the ghosts of the dead politicians induce a total lack of willpower in certain people, who then exhibit a desire to serve them. These are cases of total possession, a true union of the living and the dead, as revealed by the words of lethargic individuals like Bondi or Scajola in the televised séances . This possession by the spirits of the dead can sometimes be strong enough to invoke the presence of demons, as clearly demonstrated in the case of La Russa. Just as a medium has to go into a trance in order to be able to communicate with the dead, so the media has to put the Italians into a trance in order to create the illusion that these ghost politicians are indeed alive. A condition that is imperceptible to those who are feeling the effects, but that is patently clear to anyone observing Italy from the abroad, but that doesn’t understand the causes and underestimates the risk of contagion. The Italians are a nation that believes in the existence of ghosts, just like children believe in the existence of the bogey-man. The television has turned this nation into a bunch of zombies, reduced them to a catatonic state and, in this regard, it is similar to the drugs used by the Haitian witchdoctors. When we were still children and we heard, or thought that we heard horrible noises coming from the wardrobe and we saw, or thought that we saw terrible shadows getting larger and coming toward us, we had one of two choices, namely, either to ignore them or to hide under the bedclothes. There are no spirits in our rooms these days, other than ourselves that is. In order to make sure, all we have to do is to switch on the light and switch off the television.