Posted on 09/26/2022 7:54:17 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Here we go again...
For the hundredy-hundredth time, let me say: the reporting of the US media on the European Right is not to be believed. I don't say that as a right-winger who gets his nose out of joint when CBS News calls a politician I like "fascist." I do get my nose out of joint, but that's my problem. It's your problem because you depend on the news media to tell you what's happening in the world, and they are entirely misleading you. You don't have to see this as a conspiracy; they lie to themselves about what's going on, because they have been trained to disable their own skeptical instincts when it comes to maintaining the Narrative.
It is true that Meloni's party, the Brothers Of Italy, has roots in twentieth-century fascism. But she herself is a standard right-wing populist, in that she is a social conservative (particularly, she values religion and opposes gender ideology) and is skeptical of political and economic globalism. Meloni was raised working class in Rome by a single mother; her father abandoned the family. She still holds on to her strong Roman accent. Below, watch her 15-minute speech in English at the National Conservatism Rome conference in 2020, and tell me with a straight face that that woman is a Fascist. ....
If CBS News is right and Giorgia Meloni is a "fascist," then I'm telling you, half of America is fascist. Then again, they probably do believe that in the CBS Newsroom in New York.
(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...
If she doesn’t make the trains run on time, she’s incompetent. If she does, she’s Mussolini. An Italian conservative can’t win with the media.
If she doesn’t make the trains run on time, she’s incompetent. If she does, she’s Mussolini. An Italian conservative can’t win with the media.
And Mussolini was an Atheist who despised religion.
Watched the video yesterday morning. Like I mentioned in a different post, she referenced Pope John Paul II, Ronnie Reagan and JRR Tolkien in the speech so......😎✌
As a socialist youth, Mussolini declared himself an atheist and railed against the Catholic Church, going so far as to say that only idiots believed Bible stories and that Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene were lovers. He even authored an anti-clerical pulp novel.
To leftists she’s a fascist but everyone not a Democrat is a fascist to liberals/media, big deal.
Keep this in mind, the average length of a party’s reign in Italy since WWII is 13 months. She probably won’t be there long enough to change things much.
This is just one of the reasons Italy has long been referred to as “ungovernable” by Italians themselves and others.
My father was a drummer boy for Mussolini when he was 10. I have a photo of him with his drum and wearing his outfit.
He made a point of telling me it was not a voluntary position. He emigrated the US at the age of 12, joined the US Army in ‘44, served under Patton.
Yet the country survives, without a functioning government.
That’s MISSolini.
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