After The Fall - Resuscitation!
"A lot of [Italians] still look at Berlusconi as their saviour, or at least the lesser evil. They might hate him. They might think he's a crook. They know about bunga bunga. But they see him as the only one they can trust who won't raise their taxes."
Robert D'Alimonte, professor, political science, LUISS University, Rome
Italy is once again in political deadlock. An economy still frail, sent reeling at the results of the general election which saw the self-aggrandizing sexual predator that is former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on the brink of recovering his public office after a year's hiatus. One might imagine Italians in general feeling great relief at this man's retirement after rejection; representing a political laughing stock internationally as an intolerable burden for a proud people.
Not all that proud, evidently. Not too tolerant either, giving the anti-establishment Five Star Movement led by a former comedian turned political saviour, Beppe Grillo who grabbed 25% of the vote in the lower house of parliament. Where he will be able to spout his anti-Semitic diatribes characterizing Jews and Israel as parasites on the world body to his heart's content.
But it is Mr. Berlusconi's People of Freedom party that has triumphed beyond even his grandly confident expectations, as he is set, in partnership with the anti-immigration Northern League to take a high enough proportion of the vote for the centre-right to settle comfortably in control of the upper house.
While the technocrat, appointed Professor Mario Monti, who introduced various austerity measures so dreaded and hated by Italians, received a poor finish for his troubles on behalf of his country. Prudence is not beloved of the populace. A debauched sexual predator is far preferential to a man of especial integrity who brings economic pain to rescue his country's financial future.
At the very time that Italy shouts "grazia!", "grazia!", to a beloved pope soon to be replaced, it shouts welcome back to an aged Lothario whose bumptious ego finds favour in the Italian public.
Italy "has become a corrupt society and culture and that, with the deep and broad Italianization of the Roman Curia over the past half-decade, similar patterns of incompetence and malfeasance had penetrated the Leonine Wall", stated papal biographer George Weigel.
Labels: Crisis Politics, Economy, Italy, Political Realities, Sexism, Social-Cultural Deviations
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, February 28, 2013
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