State and Whoreocracy brothel, which would translate to "the government of whores," are probably the two better than other expressions that characterize the image of the United States. The first comes from an article by James Walston, in Foreign Policy of 14 September 2010, the second by a comment about a book written by Alexander Stille on the New York Review of Books' s April 8, 2010, titled The Reign of Emperor Corrupt Silvio.
A few days ago, the word "brothel" stood out in an article in the New York Times. But this time the protesters were holding up a sign saying, "Italy is not a brothel." We are thus able to conquer the American public with the unenviable title of "state brothel" or "state in which govern the whores." The commentators say that the fault lies with the opponents of Berlusconi who spread liberally anti-Italian stereotypes.
The truth is that they are attributable to other unedifying images because they have eyes to see, and still know how to think, now extinct art in Italy. The same commentators, it must be said, to recognize our strengths, the time of Tangentopoli, when it seemed that Italy had started on a path of redemption civil.
One might conclude that the aspects of the Italian reality that most affect the American public, or send the papers, are the political scandal of a sexual cavalier use of power and forms of real antics. In short, we, like other times in the past, ridiculous and sick of machismo, in addition to well-established image of a democracy, marred by widespread political corruption and tolerated.
In the eyes of Americans Berlusconi deserves to be mocked and despised because he is a man whose mature citizens should not trust because they do not meet the minimum of personal integrity, starting from being fair, since exert self-control, sense of responsibility . For Americans, the political power is not the property of those who govern, but belongs to the citizens who rely on the representatives, for a limited time and under precise control, to use it for the public good.
Just because it is an important power you can not delegate to people who make blackmail, that lie, and which are dominated by a feeling of omnipotence. For them, give the power to govern to a politician who acts as the Italian prime minister would be like handing over the hard-earned cash to a known crook.
The question that the American public stands about Italy is not so much "what?" But "how did you become your burden so?". I am not so interested in the facts of political chronicle but to understand how and why a country like Italy has allowed the rise to power of Silvio Berlusconi and tolerate without too many jerks his methods.
What I really can not explain is why the Italians, that they actually live in a democracy for over sixty years, did not understand the fundamental principle of liberalism, one that teaches us to fear the unlimited power, whoever holds. More than moralists are wise. They do not understand how and why the Italians are leaving scaltrissimi rule by a man who owns a media empire and vast wealth.
I tried to console him more charitable, saying: "Although we have the money influences politics." But you quickly realize that their richest politician has the power to Berlusconi and that American democracy has defenses much more effective than ours, which are to be found, in my opinion, more in fashion than in institutions.
Many commentators, to cite just one example, note that in America if the President of the Republic to receive "escort" the White House, and organized at home evenings with prostitutes, the outrage among the public and in Congress that would force him to immediate resignation. Not to mention the effect they would attacks on the judiciary and especially the repeated allegations in the Constitutional Court, guilty of unlawfully interfere with the decisions of Parliament voted by the people.
That is the question that in recent weeks, most often ask is whether we really reached the end of the Berlusconi. But the most attentive observers, as Jason Horowitz in the Washington Post on December 14, note that the parliamentary approval is still strong and that the opposition is divided and does not have a candidate who can win pairs.
In the event of early elections could triumph again Berlusconi and have opened the way to the presidency. Yet, in the way Americans follow our stories reflected a concern that I have never seen before. If we considered only a case of Berlusconi's buffoonery and corruption, do not be alarmed much.
In the world there are some examples from this point of view even more eloquent. They warn however that such a system has built in Italy that Berlusconi may find imitators in other democratic countries. It would be short, the future, not another example of the Italian political malpractice.
, February 8, 2011 
A few days ago, the word "brothel" stood out in an article in the New York Times. But this time the protesters were holding up a sign saying, "Italy is not a brothel." We are thus able to conquer the American public with the unenviable title of "state brothel" or "state in which govern the whores." The commentators say that the fault lies with the opponents of Berlusconi who spread liberally anti-Italian stereotypes.
The truth is that they are attributable to other unedifying images because they have eyes to see, and still know how to think, now extinct art in Italy. The same commentators, it must be said, to recognize our strengths, the time of Tangentopoli, when it seemed that Italy had started on a path of redemption civil.
One might conclude that the aspects of the Italian reality that most affect the American public, or send the papers, are the political scandal of a sexual cavalier use of power and forms of real antics. In short, we, like other times in the past, ridiculous and sick of machismo, in addition to well-established image of a democracy, marred by widespread political corruption and tolerated.
In the eyes of Americans Berlusconi deserves to be mocked and despised because he is a man whose mature citizens should not trust because they do not meet the minimum of personal integrity, starting from being fair, since exert self-control, sense of responsibility . For Americans, the political power is not the property of those who govern, but belongs to the citizens who rely on the representatives, for a limited time and under precise control, to use it for the public good.
Just because it is an important power you can not delegate to people who make blackmail, that lie, and which are dominated by a feeling of omnipotence. For them, give the power to govern to a politician who acts as the Italian prime minister would be like handing over the hard-earned cash to a known crook.
The question that the American public stands about Italy is not so much "what?" But "how did you become your burden so?". I am not so interested in the facts of political chronicle but to understand how and why a country like Italy has allowed the rise to power of Silvio Berlusconi and tolerate without too many jerks his methods.
What I really can not explain is why the Italians, that they actually live in a democracy for over sixty years, did not understand the fundamental principle of liberalism, one that teaches us to fear the unlimited power, whoever holds. More than moralists are wise. They do not understand how and why the Italians are leaving scaltrissimi rule by a man who owns a media empire and vast wealth.
I tried to console him more charitable, saying: "Although we have the money influences politics." But you quickly realize that their richest politician has the power to Berlusconi and that American democracy has defenses much more effective than ours, which are to be found, in my opinion, more in fashion than in institutions.
Many commentators, to cite just one example, note that in America if the President of the Republic to receive "escort" the White House, and organized at home evenings with prostitutes, the outrage among the public and in Congress that would force him to immediate resignation. Not to mention the effect they would attacks on the judiciary and especially the repeated allegations in the Constitutional Court, guilty of unlawfully interfere with the decisions of Parliament voted by the people.
That is the question that in recent weeks, most often ask is whether we really reached the end of the Berlusconi. But the most attentive observers, as Jason Horowitz in the Washington Post on December 14, note that the parliamentary approval is still strong and that the opposition is divided and does not have a candidate who can win pairs.
In the event of early elections could triumph again Berlusconi and have opened the way to the presidency. Yet, in the way Americans follow our stories reflected a concern that I have never seen before. If we considered only a case of Berlusconi's buffoonery and corruption, do not be alarmed much.
In the world there are some examples from this point of view even more eloquent. They warn however that such a system has built in Italy that Berlusconi may find imitators in other democratic countries. It would be short, the future, not another example of the Italian political malpractice.
, February 8, 2011
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