Posted on 02/09/2013 6:03:07 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Italy lost 700,000 Italians in World War I, and then immediately voted in Mussolini's fascists, which militarized the whole of Italian society... Mussolini gambled and went to war on Hitler's side, and Italy lost another half million people in WW II... is staring into same bottomless abyss again... a politician named Beppe Grillo is rising to fame and fortune. His Italian audiences are laughing themselves silly at Beppe's neo-fascist schtick... Like the rest of the Europe, Italy today is noisily shouting how peace-loving it is. Just like the old Soviet Union... southern Europe is suffering from all those promises peddled by Tony Blair's Third Way Socialism; they can't afford to keep the euro anymore, because it makes Italian exports way too expensive. Many customers can't afford to buy Italian any more.
Silvio Berlusconi’s “People of Freedom” composite political party was and is filled with fascists, yet the press hardly says a thing about that; Berlusconi himself is an apologist for fascists and fascism. When Gianni Alemanno was elected mayor of Rome, crowds were chanting “Duce, Duce” and brandishing the fascist salute. Grillo is nothing new. Italy is much further gone than you’d even know if you were to read the mainstream media.
I’m like that. Can easily remember the chemical names of my blood pressure meds, but have never once recalled the brand names.
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