Italian Elections and Politics 2022 - Our Time to Schlein

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I have very mixed thoughts on his agenda, but it's clear to me that Salvini is one of the most talented campaigners in the world right now. Among the great nations, put him in a class with Modi and maybe no others.

He is adept at turning great popularity into great power. This, of course, can be dangerous. Hoping for the best.

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How much higher is Lega's ceiling? One must imagine that some lingering resistance exists in the south  from the days when they were a strictly chauvinist Northern party. If they can overcome that in the approaching years... could they form a true majority?

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...And away we go.

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As a (very much conditional) apologist in long standing for Southern Italy's economic interests and culture, the prospect of Po Valley anti-"terrone" racists holding undiluted sway over Italy's political and state institutions is almost as terrifying to me as the prospect of an overtly migrant-bashing alt-Catholic Prime Minister of a founding EU state.

I've openly asked this before: how powerful would Salvini be if he (or Lega) could create any appeal in the South? His numbers remain depressed because of the regional issue.

But yes, even I have such strong distaste for their record that it prevents me from actively rooting for them, and I sense from conversations with native Sicilians that this is the common sentiment on the island.

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I looked up Pisano, and he has clearly lost a lot of weight in the past few years. More proof that being fat causes bad opinions.

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Neo-fascists win the honor of presiding over a possibly catastrophic economic crisis. As someone who enjoys drinking out of poisoned chalices, I am very envious! 

One must consider how fortunate Mohamed Atta was to avoid the wave of Islamophobia in fall of 2001.

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I'll be blunt: flyingmongoose making a new post with the updated count every minute, which is bound to only differ from the previous one by a hair, is very annoying and useless and he is therefore asked to stop. Thank you.

Use the ignore function. Am pleased to have avoided this entirely by already having this user ignored.

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The chart above has given me pause re: how "educational trends" may simply be downstream from age cohorts and the expanded access to/incentive for education among younger voters. Certainly there is some class aspect to educational background, but it can be overstated in a place like Italy (where education has lagged most globalized nations).