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Primaries of the Faces

Milan has seen the Primaries of the PDminusL. The rain was there and the voters weren’t there, just 90,000 people, the equivalent of a neighbourhood in the semi-suburbs. The contest was between 4 gentlemen whose common denominator was having white hair and a rich past. The one who lost was the Ligresti architect, Stefano Boeri, a candidate for the Left (certainly coherent and linear), the Left of cement and safe nuclear, but also of EXPO 2015 and the City Life skyscrapers. The urns were also to be seen in the hairdresser's called Coupe de Cheveux in via Correnti 19, between a blast of sun and a rebellious curl, where a sixteen-year-old voted for the first time. But these are details.
The SHOCKING thing was that the people of Milan were just able to vote for faces, not for the programme. Primaries of the faces. Artificial elections for little leaders. The programme needs to be presented and explained to citizens in the most minute details, giving the reasoning and the advantages. The voter has to be able to vote on the programme, not the face, and to be able to control how it is put into effect by means of the Internet. There’s no sense in presenting posters with faces of people of the same grouping if then the programme is the same with imperceptible Byzantine differences (if there are any at all). Anyone who is voting at the Primaries is voting for a slogan, the photo of a gentleman or a lady, usually the best one in their whole life, a publicity advert. Is this democracy? The citizen is treated like inert material, a person without a brain. Let the parties do the Primaries at home. Let them ask their members to vote for the current people like Franceschini or Bersani and not waste the money and the advertising spaces to take the Italians for a ride. We cannot decide what a politician has to do. The politician is our employee, but we are given the chance to choose from a selection of names belonging to people who will do exactly the same things, decided by the party or by the logic of who they belong to, as for the incinerators.
The 5 Star MoVement will not hold Primaries on the names of “candidate leaders” in its lists for the towns and the regions. The spokesperson for the list will be chosen from within the list. If more than one list is presented in a single town or in a region, only then will there be online voting among the people of that town or that region. It’s the programme that is elected, not a leader who doesn’t exist. When the Italians finally understand, it will always be too late. The Primaries are a superficial operation, an operation of “faces”.

The Calendar of Lay Saints 2011
Hundreds of homicides and dozens of slaughters in the post-war period have still nobody identified as the perpetrator. How many people know who did it and yet remain silent?
And it’s this that nourishes the Power, the indifference of the Italians.
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Comments

A country of disgraceful people? A little bit sweeping don't you think?

It is evident that such a drastic emotional response for my country must derive from a deep-rooted hate for a few individuals. What any mature person should realise, however, is that a few individuals are not what defines the nature of an entire population. Is it really 'disgraceful' that the bond between a mother and her son is so profound that she makes him breakfast every morning? Is it disgraceful that 'mamma' dreads the day her son will leave and have to make his own?

The arrogance you label us with, is simply the patriotism that derives from people like yourself attributing the disgusting actions of criminal organisations and hopeless politicians to the general population.

The disgraceful and arrogant people in this world are those that deem themselves as worthy enough to judge those they have not even encountered... I think any history book will remind us of them.

Posted by: Francesca Spagnoli | November 26, 2010 09:36 PM

There is only one phrase to describe italians:

Total arrogance coupled with a self serving and selfish attitude.

They can't make their own breakfast in the morning because "mamma" has to make it for them. YET they can surely screw you, rip you off, strip any vestige of dignity from you or the country in the blink of an eye. And if any one says as much you become the criminal,

What a country of disgraceful people.

Posted by: Robert Morrison | November 18, 2010 12:18 PM

What a stupid, stupid, stupid country.

And how more stupid can Maroni get.

Imagine an american criminal, his name is The Boss, and he is the leader of a criminal organization called The Killers, who are based in a small town called Killerville.

And imagine that after 14 years that The Boss, chief of the 'The Killers' clan, who has spent the last 14 years living in 'hiding' right in the center of ' Killerville', is captured.

The same just happened in Italy, a mafia bigwig, hiding for 14 years in the center of a small town whose name is almost the same as the mafia clan who come from there.

After 14 years, the italian anti-mafia experts finally capture him.

Complimenti !

Sherlock Holmes must be doing flip-flops in his grave along with Emil and the detectives and Columbo etc.

And this comes 36 hours after Roberto Saviano practically denounced that the Nothern league has collusions with the Mafia, or better still, that the Mafia have infested the north of Italy, including the Northern League political party.

Maroni, not only Italy's interior minister in charge of going after the mafia is also a top member of the League and yesterday criticized Saviano for his comments, and intimidated that he is going to sue him for having stated what he stated.

And today Maroni's police forces capute the mafia boss, who has been hiding for 14 years in the first place any idiot would have found him 13 years ago..

How very handy for Maroni.

And all of the Italian press gobbled this down - hook, line and sinker.

And also 36 hours after Saviano having stated that the mafia is now more diffused in the north of Italy then in the south, the italian commission for mafia comes out stating that ... guess what... that the mafia and camorra are operating in the north of Italy.

Complimenti !

Italy is completely upside down.

Comedians explain the real facts about the economy, writers explain the facts about the mafia, and satirist have stopped being funny because they get too much competition from the politicians.

Ex beauty contest princesses who also did nude calendars are now Ministers of Equal opportunity or of Tourism, half of the Italian parliament has been or is being investigated for tax evasion, collusion with the mafia - you name it - they have done it.

The italian prime minister uses the security police he has at his disposal to bring buss-loads of escorts to all his residences at all hours.
One of his party deputies [ yep another ex- showgirl turned polititian] upon his direct personal request picks up an underaged lap dancer from police headquarters claiming she was the niece of Mubarak.

And the list could go on forever.

Gommorra ?
You must be kidding, even if we included the word SODOM, we would be insulting mythology.

Never mind if you italians are embarrassed .... but aren't you starting to get a little worried ?

Ireland, Portugal, Spain ?

It will be an interesting day when the real truth about Italy's financial situation comes out into the open after the next elections where suddenly the new minister of economics will reveal the real black hole which will bring down the Euro and the EU once and for all.

Complimenti !

Keyser Soze

Posted by: Keyser Soze | November 18, 2010 02:39 AM

Mind U, it's already too late. This is a no-future country!

Posted by: Gösta C. Zwilling | November 17, 2010 07:41 PM

Mind U. It's already too late. This is a no-future country!

Posted by: Gösta C. Zwilling | November 17, 2010 07:40 PM

Mind U. It's already too late. This is a no-future country!

Posted by: Gösta C. Zwilling | November 17, 2010 07:38 PM