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We’ve lost, we can now be sure of it. We didn’t lose because of Berlusconi having remained in power itself, at this stage one clown is worth another, we lost because our opposition hasn’t been capable of passing a motion against a leader of the government such as ours. A premier who dates girls whose age is still in doubt, who buys votes, senators, deputies, journalists and, generally speaking, votes at a speed such that it seems to me as if I was at an Arabic Market, a head of government insulted and mocked by the governments of every developed nation, who is a constant source of embarrassment for us citizens, a politician unable of taking care of even the smallest crisis, who can’t manage passing a law without a month of demonstrations through the entire national territory, a people’s representative who daily lies to his very electors promising to solve the issue of garbage, the crisis of universities and the economic one within the weekend, a leader as this one, remained in power.

We’ve lost not because of the failed motion, in other worlds we would have had the hope of substituting him in some future,  we’ve lost because the opposition has demonstrated itself to be even worst than Berlusconi himself. On the one side, the left-wing fanatics who applaud the teachings of Communism, preaching at the same time a “state without government” and “the glorious days of Stalin & Co.”, on the other side our “wanna-be” right-wing(-ish) rabis of the Northern League, those who insist for an “Italian’s Italy” and for a certain “Padania” (Theoretical independent nation resulting from the division of Italy into two independent states: Northern and Southern Italy)  which, depending on the day, extends itself towards south upon reaching the Vatican. But what about our center parties? There isn’t much to say about them, their situation is so chaotic and confused that it becomes challenging to make something out of them. We could hope of having a slight chance with our “moderate” parties (You CANNOT call them center parties, they can be center tending to right, center tending to left, center tending to right with friends in left-wing parties, whatever you want, but NOT center parties!!) but, apparently, they can’t, don’t want to or aren’t capable of uniting themselves to form a majority. In fact, an opposition only capable of criticizing the leading party and continuously fighting with other “slices” of itself. In such a situation, it isn’t a miracle if Mr.B managed to “convert” a few politicians from here and there to his cause.

Then what? Then nothing. We haven’t got anyone with whom to substitute Berlusconi, but this isn’t a problem because there’s isn’t a risk of him having to be substituted in a near future either. The premier’s power is kept together through moderately strong or moderately weak coalitions that, obviously, have completely changed from dawn to twilight but, as we all know, majority is needed only to fail motions in the parliament or pass “ad-personam” (Personal, to benefit the interests of one specific person or group.) laws. The rest can happily snooze in the parliament from August to December before floating away in a New Year’s toast.

It is therefore clear that hoping in a quick solution is pretty much unrealistic. If there was someone capable of changing something he or she would have already done it and the current government would now be at home (Or in prison…) but, apparently, out of 60 Million citizens none suitable to change things. Don’t get me wrong, let’s continue with our 5-PM tea/gossip sessions on our national tv channels and, of course, let’s continue parroting slogans during demonstrations, they will surely look awesome on the evening news but, even more important, let’s be careful not to honestly ask ourselves “Where is our country heading?” or, even better, “What are we achieving with these demonstrations?”

Of course, demonstrating it is a constitutional right, demonstrations are lawful and legitimate but, at the same time, let’s not forget that these movements must lead somewhere. Even if we obtained Mr. Berlusconi to quit his position he would leave a “whole” in the government which I don’t think any other party would be able to fill in for. I don’t want to draw quick conclusions but, historically speaking, where have nations without authoritative/authoritarian heads of government ended up?

A true political movement doesn’t begin from a mob marching along the streets of a city, it begins from each one of us. When a sufficient number of people will be tired of this and will want a change, a change for better, a change to take back our rightful place on the road to progress, grant a job, a home, a life and a functioning network of social services to everyone then, and only then, can we hope for a change, and there will be a one. Until then, a wish you a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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1. Blog di Andrez » Blog Archive » Un circo fatto a stivale - 18 dicembre 2010
   

   [...] Show’s on, Crowd’s Cheering, Italy’s Sinking [...]

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2. Andrez - 18 dicembre 2010
   

   Google  likes your article dear Max 

   By the way,
   Mr. Berlusconi in parliament has always done and do whatever he wants because an opposition “otherwise consentient” agreed it, as it lies on its methods. All of us were hoping for a miracle in a decent strike-back of a residue ‘Onorevoli’, but we knew in our hearts that on 14 December the result was a foregone conclusion, and not because we can foresee that Miss Siliquini and Polidori, Mr. Calearo and Cesario, Mr. Razzi and Scilipoti will give us a mortification, but because who had the institutional task to knock down the regime, in his heart he has never feel it as a regime, than he has run and behaved as if he had to overthrow a standard government.

   But much more needed to close the squalid situation started on ’94 and take back the country to the normality, that today the Italy of the institutions it’s no more a normal country, and 16 years of Berlusconi style (taken up by the opposition) have turned it into a “borgatare caste soap opera”, and “wrapped in a shroud of conformism and lies without the need for special laws “, as prophesied the old Indro Montanelli.

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3. max0005 - 18 dicembre 2010
   

   Yups!

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4. carmengueye - 19 dicembre 2010
   

   Embé, agree.

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