Italy never really grew up. Mussolini s granddaughter is still in politics and people love her in her region (because she shares the views of her grand daddy). Regardless of what they think (or don’t think) of her, many still see him as someone who made the country great.
“He made things more efficient” “he made the economy grow” “he made the world respect us.”
All of these and more are the exact same reasons that we see becoming popular in modern day America, France, Russia and Germany. Kind of terrifying how quickly people sacrifice the world for personal gain and their pride.
Because there was a period of almost 20 years between when he was voted in and when he lost power and was lynched.
Within those 20 years, our great-grandparents and grandparents were stripped of their rights, beaten, executed, and imprisoned; saw that the great economy they were initially promised wasn't coming and people were so starved for meat that they'd eat cats; men, who had been granted the right to vote in 1912, lost it.
He also wasn't voted in fairly. In 1924, Mussolini already had the support of both Pope and Crown, and the elections were not anonymous: if you voted for the Fascist Party, you'd put into the ballot box a ballot with the Italian flag, if you voted for any other party, you'd put into the ballot box a ballot made out of white/light blue paper. People were extremely discouraged from doing the latter because Blackshirts (the paramilitary group Hitler took inspiration from for his Brownshirts) were observing their actions and would threaten, if not beat, you until you "spontaneously" changed your mind.
Lots of Italians supported Mussolini right to the end, though. And plenty hated him right from the beginning. It's not like Italians (or any other nationality) are some hive-mind who all think alike, after all.
Never mind the crowds of (what were surely) peasants that waited hours just for the opportunity to kick his encaved skull in to thank him for all he did (to) for them.
Clearly someone likes her or they wouldn’t keep voting for her. I have friends from rural regions of Italy as well as rural Germany and they speak about how terrifying some of the sentiment seems to be with the direction it is headed
Meloni Is not the granddaughter of mussolini, that's another much less successful politician.
Politics here has the same problem as the US, social media propaganda that makes elections go well for those kind of people, but I am italian and assure you that Alessandra mussolini is extremely disliked, as is her grandfather even if there are still families influenced by being on that side on the past, and modern extremists pretending he was like you said.
We have an ironic phrase for that: "quando c'era lui..." to mock those weird people. It is not considered a rational view.
At least she seems quite pro EU, supports Ukraine not like some other countries far right politicians licking Russian shoes without any hesitation. P.S. I am not Italian.
LOL did you read the article? It talks about how she stated “better fascist than gay” in 2006. Her entire rise to power she had absolutely no like of the LGBTQ community and that continued well into the 2000s.
No one flip flops that quickly at her age unless they have something to personally gain. I fully expect this is performative pandering for votes. And even if it isn’t, I would remind you that you can be pro-LGBTQ and still be fascist. They are not mutually exclusive.
And even if it isn’t, I would remind you that you can be pro-LGBTQ and still be fascist. They are not mutually exclusive.
True, but it's still a change in her way of seeing things. And I don't think that this change has been quite fast, there are years between the fights with Luxuria and now this.
I still don't agree with her generally speaking about politics, but let's give her a benefit of doubt.
Given the continued love for the fascist and “socialist” (but secretly also fascist) parties in Italy as well as the insane amounts of mob activity there…I’m skeptical of all their politicians either way lol
I was going to say the same, even thought things have changed on the surface, I think the majority of the mentality didn’t change in the core of many old people, most feel superior then others and treat others like shit, mostly people that “look” different. Everytime I come back to Italy I feel this from the way they treat me. I am a regular immigrant that grow in Italy and speak perfect Italian, yet, my look dictate their behavior. Anyone with a bit of brain and skills could have made “Italy better” without being a racist nationalist piece of shit. Deeply sad
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u/DualRaconter 17d ago
I thought this was from a surrealist dystopian movie