yes you have all been had...the silver-tongued liar pulled off a massive pr stunt.
after the mawkish appeal to memories of young americans unselfishly dying for our freedom etc, to hear that he doesn't support liberation day is unreal.
and all that background from degondi about opus dei, the lega, sicily, the fascists, the melted microfilm....
man when will the voters connect the dots?
and why isn't the left leading with stuff like this, and the amazing facts brought out the other day about how b.'s fortune doubles in perfect tandem with the economic crisis in the country he pretends to govern.
last night he was spouting for hours on one of his channels, whining how the state media gives him only a few minutes, while simultaneously drowning every media outlet with a charm offensive.
the left are a big tent indeed, and by picking the safest candidate, who is so diplomatic and rational but clueless about using media, they are relying on the voters to be sick of b. and his shady 'friends', rather than a coherent, forceful attack on the 'powers that b.'.
are the elections trustworthy in italy, or is there some gaming with the count, ala diebold? ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
See my comment in response to Brownie's, slightly upthread. "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
the 'powers that b.'.
40% of the italian voters simply don't care; like the evangelical right won't ever care about Katrina or Iraq as long as they don't have to think about blowjobs, the italian Vatican-indoctrinated masses will be happy to support anyone that is not "a communist", i.e. "that could challenge the secular interests of the Catholic Church".
Then you have about a third of the population that will simply side with the winner. A history of foreign invasions taught us that it's very important to always be on the right side, so this kind of effect is very visible in italian elections much more than elsewhere. Nowadays the word on the street is that "the communists will win", so they should hopefully side with the centre-left.
