2007-11-05
Skribaĵoj de 2011-02-03
Hodiaŭa Betablogado aŭ en Esperanto aŭ en Fontlingvo
Hartmut PILCH
abstract La fontlingvo non ĉiam estas la Internacia, kaj se ĝi estas, mi uzas prefere literojn laŭ stilo de Loĵbano, t.e. ŝ ► c, ĵ ► j, ĉ ► tc, ĝ ► dj, c ► ts, j ► i, ŭ ► u, i ► i aŭ se aktsenta ii, u ► u aŭ se aktsenta uu.
Why Italians are still willing to vote for Berlusconi
In an english speaking forum, Berlusconi was bashed as a “pig” and an Italian said
You would be amazed if you could count the enormous amount of people still supporting him, despite the clarity of the allegations against him. I guess we are a too young democracy yet.
to which I answered that the allegations of the prosecutors are not all that strong.
This provoked the following question.
Now, tell me, Hartmut: does it happen anywhere else something like that? Do other Presidents transmit video messages every day?
Does it seem to you a democracy should allow and tolerate this? But, above all, would you define this democracy?
to which I answered,
I have heard Berlusconi’s messages as well as many of his most competent hobby prosecutors like Marco Travaglio. I’ve also seen lots of video messages of Merkel and Medvedev. It’s not a bad way for politicians to talk to the public. The problem with Berlusconi’s messages, not only the recent ones, is that he keeps lambasting the judicial institutions without even properly substantiating his claims. Napolitano, Casini and Bersani react to this quite well, without the moralising and swearing that anyway doesn’t work.
I don’t think the “concussion” charge is well founded, nor is the Ruby case proven. What is morally damaging however is the overall picture of a loose lifestyle where lots of pretty young women are his friends, flatterers and courtesans. Even if this courtesanery does not exactly correspond to the charge of “prostitution” (the prosecutors who subject all these women and other guests to intensive surveillance and, effectively in public, and routinely declare them “prostitutes”, are behaving in a questionable way), it gives the impression of a somewhat untrustworthy and irresponsible leader on whom nobody should bet his political career, no matter what superior resources he is otherwise capable of mobilizing. The danger to him comes from the decrease of confidence of his own court more than from that of the public. The public may however still, even grudgingly, vote for the center-right camp regardless of who leads it, as long as it is still providing a stable government that does roughly what this public expects from it.
The attitude of the Italian voters on the whole does not seem less mature to me than the attitude of those whose (very widespread e.g. among Beppe Grillo followers) whose interest in politics is limited to what in Italy is widely called “justicialism”, i.e. outrage about alleged private vices of individual politicians combined with the enjoyment of a sense of anthropological superiority over their fellow countrymen who still vote for these politicians and the hope that lawcourts will prevent them from doing so.