Hey, don't insult clowns. You have to be both talented and determined to be a clown, and Berlusconi is neither. And Italy runs just fine without him, I hear that their biggest company raised its profits by 8 percent (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/7083660/Italian-mafia-profits-from-downturn.html) last year.
I sometimes suspect that people keep Berlusconi in power because he gives them something to blame everything on. Without that simple explanation, they have to confront the possibility of needing to basically purge and re-design their entire upper government, and that's too daunting a task to face absent calamity.
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Date: 2010-01-29 04:57 pm (UTC)I sometimes suspect that people keep Berlusconi in power because he gives them something to blame everything on. Without that simple explanation, they have to confront the possibility of needing to basically purge and re-design their entire upper government, and that's too daunting a task to face absent calamity.