Collective hallucination
Like the Kennedy assassination, as the secret base at Roswell, as the killers of Brabant, as the monster of Loch Ness, Yeti and Big Foot, like the statues of Easter Island and the enigma of Atlantis, like the Bermuda Triangle and especially as the ghost who likes to open the window of my Toyt during the night, as all that, I can not explain "the effect Berlusconi. "
I can understand people who vote right, I can understand people who vote left, I can understand people who vote in the center ... This is the democratic expression of different sensibilities conditioned by social status, by education and by factors related to economic conditions and "character" of each other. I can understand how despair mingled with ignorance and a hint of malice may lead someone to give her voice to the extreme right. I come also to understand how the illusion of a revival and a good campaign can drive nearly two million French people to vote for Nicolas Sarkozy. But I can
still do not understand how, after a first experience in 1994-1995, they came to give him a further two terms between 2001 and 2006 and then another current mandate since 2008.
confess not satisfy me the classic argument referring to the stranglehold of the man on the media. This control is certainly an asset, but it can not explain everything.
The man is a thug. Say it is not value judgments, it is a notorious fact. For years, business is accrued and evening closed because by the grace of a prescription or amnesty (cases of bribe, bribery, false testimony of accounting fraud). Or, through the amendment of existing laws, he manages to be purely and simply pay (stories of tax evasion, embezzlement). What is surprising, again, is not that Silvio Berlusconi is a man of flexibility and networks, manages to manipulate justice. What is surprising is that despite all these facts are known architects and the legal tinkering is now, for the chair, a kind of arrogant habit he does not really cover a majority of Italians continue to vote for him. Maybe, like a Steve Jobs, Apple's charismatic boss, Silvio Berlusconi at'il the ability to induce a "field of distortion of reality" through which voters view the world through its unique look. ... Maybe ...
few days ago, that which is known as "Il Cavaliere" in organizing a demonstration in his honor at which, taken by a strange delirium, he even promised that his reelection would finally cure cancer.
Since we manifest more easily "cons" something "for" something, the failure of this event does not mean much.
If Italy gives him a fourth term, the mystery of the phenomenon will no doubt look at the sad demise of the followers of Jim Jones, the guru of the "People's Temple"
It will be like a mass suicide.
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