>Claims to be a 'socialist'>Gets in power and IMMEDIATELY starts selling off Italy to international finance and neoliberal oligarchsWhat was his fucking problem, and why did Italian voters fall for his lies? Is it true that he was a fed/CIA asset?
>>18364802>why did Italian voters fall for his lies?Because they are plainly dumbThe Gods only give baldness to men that aren't pure of heart
>be a socialist>immediately fuck up your countrychecks out
> too corrupt for italian standartsGrim
>>18364802Italy voted pretty much exclusively on party lines with no regard for the candidates for most of the post war period. It wasn't until Berlusconi that things changed.
>>18364873He was not even allowed to be buried on italian soil
>>18364873>>18364880More as a matter of political propaganda than because anyone cared, really.For a long while politiciabs in Italy tried to exploit tangentopoli as a way to stand out positively above the corrupt opponents, so shitting on anything related to it was the period equivalent of today's purity spirals.Not that it mattered all that much, the foremost reason why Italy has a reputation for corruption is not even because the country is particularly corrupt, it's straight up because italians are convinced that all politicians are inherently corrupt to the point that there's neither wool to pull over their eyes nor reason to get up in arms about it.
>>18364802Would you trust an Italian in charge of your country?
Neolibs are termite level entryists.They know their positions are entirely unpopular in reality, so they worm their way up already existing major parties with (((support))) and once they get to the top they start purging all the original adherents to that party.>see>Labour Party UK>SDP >Labor Party AU>Labour Party NZ>PS etc etc
>>18364802Francois Mitterrand in France at this time also sort of sucked. In west Europe at this time “socialist” just meant welfare capitalist in US today.
