boutons_deux
02-16-2018, 07:45 AM
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.
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/02/14/italy-whoever-wins-wont-govern/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR%20Jesmyn%20Ward%20American%20Revo lution&utm_content=NYR%20Jesmyn%20Ward%20American%20Revol ution+CID_4eb22e13c5370d04eca47d951b0ea5f8&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_term=Italy%20Whoever%20Wins%20Wont%20Govern
Berlusconi humping a meter maid:
http://www.gifbin.com/bin/042012/silvio-berlusconi-humps-meter-maid.webm
“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.
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/02/14/italy-whoever-wins-wont-govern/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR%20Jesmyn%20Ward%20American%20Revo lution&utm_content=NYR%20Jesmyn%20Ward%20American%20Revol ution+CID_4eb22e13c5370d04eca47d951b0ea5f8&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_term=Italy%20Whoever%20Wins%20Wont%20Govern
Berlusconi humping a meter maid:
http://www.gifbin.com/bin/042012/silvio-berlusconi-humps-meter-maid.webm