It’s typical from a country whose system hasn’t changed in over 200 years to think that the same goes for all the other countries. Comparing Italy’s constitutional and institutional system of 100 years ago to the current one should be a mainstay for everyone writing an article about Italian politics and far right.
Apparently in New York such knowledge has still to land, but there’s always the sensationalism to hand to the readers when talking about Italian politics without any in depth analysis.
NY times is forgetting that the average government lasts at best 1 year in Italy, which isn’t enough to do anything
The problem with using Italy as some kind of yardstick is that Italy’s political issues have gone back decades.
Outside of Berlusconi, there have been very few post-Mussolini politicians who have held on to power for any length of time. And changes, reform and improvements take political will and time.
I don’t know if there’s a fix here for the Italian political system. Is it a case of too many parties forcing too many multi-party coalitions that can then fall to pieces if just individual members leave; where every coalition government barely has a majority?
Is it due to the entrenched economic inequality between South and North? Is it due to something within the Italian media diet?
That is bleak, although I can’t remember a time when Italian politics weren’t bleak in my lifetime.
A question for the Italians of this thread:
How Italy got at this point? Is it unemployment? Is it immigration? Is it that people became apolitical during Berlusconi’s reign? And is there any light at the end of the tunnel?
The future is doomed.
Y’all can, and should, just stop copying us. We’re not forcing you. If you always complain that Italian politicians are shit and the you vote for the same stuff maybe you should get off your high horse.
Italy never had stable government since fall of Western Roman Empire.
Italy is usually two decades ahead in politics. They elected their Trump in early 2000s.
The far left, instead of coming up with solutions to average joe’s problems, is desperate to convince people that electing anybody but them will result in a catastrophe.
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Why is Italy my future? I don’t live there.
It’s typical from a country whose system hasn’t changed in over 200 years to think that the same goes for all the other countries. Comparing Italy’s constitutional and institutional system of 100 years ago to the current one should be a mainstay for everyone writing an article about Italian politics and far right.
Apparently in New York such knowledge has still to land, but there’s always the sensationalism to hand to the readers when talking about Italian politics without any in depth analysis.
NY times is forgetting that the average government lasts at best 1 year in Italy, which isn’t enough to do anything
The problem with using Italy as some kind of yardstick is that Italy’s political issues have gone back decades.
Outside of Berlusconi, there have been very few post-Mussolini politicians who have held on to power for any length of time. And changes, reform and improvements take political will and time.
I don’t know if there’s a fix here for the Italian political system. Is it a case of too many parties forcing too many multi-party coalitions that can then fall to pieces if just individual members leave; where every coalition government barely has a majority?
Is it due to the entrenched economic inequality between South and North? Is it due to something within the Italian media diet?
That is bleak, although I can’t remember a time when Italian politics weren’t bleak in my lifetime.
A question for the Italians of this thread:
How Italy got at this point? Is it unemployment? Is it immigration? Is it that people became apolitical during Berlusconi’s reign? And is there any light at the end of the tunnel?
The future is doomed.
Y’all can, and should, just stop copying us. We’re not forcing you. If you always complain that Italian politicians are shit and the you vote for the same stuff maybe you should get off your high horse.
Italy never had stable government since fall of Western Roman Empire.
Italy is usually two decades ahead in politics. They elected their Trump in early 2000s.
The far left, instead of coming up with solutions to average joe’s problems, is desperate to convince people that electing anybody but them will result in a catastrophe.