As well as being a racist, sexist, homophobe, islamophobe etc.

You’re getting your mathematics in a twist.

I think you just managed with each sentence, to invert the social, cultural, material and political innovation coming out of the place.

There’s no product design without a social pact or elementary means of production left plausible. That’s not good design.

To render Italy legible then, one first rewinds to when they were doing first what others struggle with today; a political class detached and incapable of reading an electorate, public opinion subdued to established pontification preaching contradictory virtue, and finally, a degenerate vulgarity pervading everything.

The 90’s.

It was D’Alema who warned Socialist International in 1994 that the third way as proposed by Bill Clinton and Tony Blair had serious lacunae with culture and its object.

That it was just a big fat lie if culture be reduced to mere appropriation of the mores of polite society, thinking this enough to influence the next wave of unemployables.

Nothing to love, more of a burden.

Those banks cannot fail due bad debts accumulated after ’08, definitely not with Deutsche Bank on a funeral pyre of derivatives and an auto industry scrapping cars in secret by the thousands.

The only correlation that can be made is that the No vote scored higher where turnout was low. It’s the PD in the South that’s to blame. When he turned the referendum into a vote of confidence, internal opposition opted not to vote, because of issues with the clauses proposed.

How you attribute the result to organised crime is your conclusion. Daphne never said that anyway.

The PD in the south of Italy is an older electorate. The young ones are turning to Cinquestelle. Sicily would have lost considerable autonomy, along with Aosta and Bolzano, in the chapter dealing with senate reform and the CNEL.

I’m never angry.

Dictators and strong, autocratic governments are necessarily tough on crime. They just target criminals selectively. We have ample evidence of that in Malta.
For all the problems the Italian democracy has, it is infinitely better-off than under the jackboots of Mussolini.

Exactly. And that is why the Mafia regions overwhelmingly voted No. They don’t want another Mussolini because Il Duce was the only politician who succeeded in decimating the Mafia.

That was why, when the Americans invaded Sicily, hardly a shot was fired. Calogero Vizzini, the then Capo Mafia, rolled out the red carpet for the Allies because he couldn’t get rid of Mussolini soon enough.