Italy: ‘Whoever Wins Won’t Govern’

“This is a non-election,” a professor of philosophy tells me in a bar in Milan. “I will not vote.”
“Meaning?”
“Whoever wins, they will not govern.

All will go on just the same.

Most key policies will be decided outside Italy.”
The Italians go to the polls on March 4, and

from outside, it might look as though there are major, exciting, and, above all, dangerous developments in the offing:

the return of the octogenarian Silvio Berlusconi,

the rapid rise of anti-establishment Five Star Movement,

the ever more aggressive rhetoric of the xenophobic Northern League.

Yet the perception among most Italians is that

the political system is simply too dysfunctional and blocked for much to happen at all.

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Berlusconi humping a meter maid:

http://www.gifbin.com/bin/042012/silvio-berlusconi-humps-meter-maid.webm