'Brothers of Italy / Italy [is about to] Wake Up', as last pre-election polls suggest Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia has good chances to win the elections

The general election is on 25 Sept., and a win by what media calls 'post-fascists' is poised to rock the SS EUrope [pun intended] considerably

As media literacy is one of these pages’ core missions, Saturday’s reading pleasure comes courtesy of what Austro-Covidistan legacy media reports about the impending Italian elections—and the article it actually cites doing so. See if you can spot the difference, though…

Late last night on 9 Sept. 2022, the below was posted on Austrian state broadcaster ORF Online, which indicates the darkest portents for the impending future:

Last Polls Suggest Postfascists Winning

In Italy, the last polls before the parliamentary elections in a fortnight were published on Friday. They point to a victory for Giorgia Meloni’s post-fascist Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) party. Still, Meloni would need other parties to govern.

According to a poll by the Demos polling institute published by the daily La Repubblica, the Fratelli d’Italia are ahead with 24.6% of the vote. According to the poll, the social democratic Partito Democratico (PD) could obtain some 22.4% of the vote.

The right-wing populist Lega of former interior minister Matteo Salvini would get 12%, while the right-wing conservative Forza Italia of long-time prime minister Silvio Berlusconi would reach 7.7%. This would allow the centre-right alliance of Fratelli d’Italia, Lega and Forza Italia to capture a relative majority in the newly elected parliament.

The Movimento Cinque Stelle (M5S) led by ex-premier Giuseppe Conte, which emerged as the strongest single party from the 2018 general election and parted ways with Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio in June, is at 13.8%. Mario Draghi’s coalition government collapsed in July. The general election is scheduled for 25 September. Until now, Italy has never elected its parliament in autumn.

So, now this will quite likely take place in an entirely foreseeable way: the voting people, long bamboozled and conned by mainstream ‘politicians’, have reached the end of the runway.

It’s important to understand, however, that Italian politics, while no more corrupt than, say, German politics, has been a shitshow since the Mani pulite of the early 1990s destroyed the post-1945 political system.

Detour: Italian (W European) Politics since 1945

One of the seldom-talked about core features of Western European politics after 1945 is its utter corruption, typically at the hands of US-led ‘intelligence’ services. Case in point, operations ‘Gladio’ and a number of comparable shenanigans that often involved US and/or NATO ties to organised crime (think: ‘the Mafia’ in Italy) or ‘even’ Neo-Nazi groups, such as the ‘National Socialist Underground’ in Germany, which is a (partial) subsidiary of the W German ‘intelligence’ services, the Bundesnachrichtendienst. Incidentally, the Bundesnachrichtendienst was originally staffed by virtually all Nazi-German intelligence officers fighting the Soviets that US could get its hands on; and if you don’t believe that, why don’t you check out the term ‘Operation Gehlen’ for a change?

Back to Italy (or Western Europe, for that matter): post-1943/46 politics involved three main parties: the Christian Democrats (Democrazia Cristiana, or DC), the Socialists (Partito Socialista, or PS), and the Communists.

At first, the DC as a mainstream right-of-centre outfit had a virtual monopoly on power (cf. Adenauer’s W Germany), but gradually, the PS gained on them. At some point, the corruption became too much too be glossed over, even by W Europe’s spectacular economic growth after WW2, hence the PS was included in the system, whose wheels were greased with bribes, not all of which were coming from US/NATO intelligence services. (For a hilarious rendition, do check out the Don Camillo and Peppone movies from that era.)

The same process—the combination of DC and PS eventually saw their support decline, too, so the Communists were brought along to bolster the régime. And while the Communists were gaining in the polls due to the corruption of DC and PS, it’s important to note that they were in on this scheme, too.

And this was exposed by the Milan-based prosecutors in the early 1990s (Mani pulite), which led to the de facto implosion of all established parties and provided the grounds for the victory of US-style ‘neoliberal’ technocracy—as well as Silvio Berlusconi’s ‘populist’ (fake) anti-establishmentarian movement.

In a nutshell: despite being chastised as Europe’s ‘lazy southerners’, Italians have been actually been on the forefront of Western developments in terms of the corruption of the post-WW2 system, it’s implosion due to the courageous prosecutors in Milan, and the substitution of the traditional 2-3 mainstream parties (Germany is still awaiting its Mani pulite, to say nothing of Austria).

Italy Votes on 25 Sept.: will a 'new' Europe emerge?

Back to the ORF Online piece that ‘explains’ the impending sea change in the following way:

The mobilisation of the electorate is considered crucial in this ballot in times of political disenchantment. Abstention is therefore the great spectre of these elections. According to polls, it could be as high as 35%, which corresponds to around 16 million voters staying away. In this case, the turnout would be 65%.

That would be the lowest turnout in parliamentary elections in Italy’s republican history and not a good omen for the newly elected parliament. The previous general election in 2018 had already reported the highest abstention rate since 1948. 27% of eligible voters had not cast their ballot.

This is what 30+ years of ‘technocratic’ governance (ahem) has done: US-levels of abstention, because voters aren’t stupid and know that whatever they vote for, nothing will fundamentally change anyways.

There’s no shortage of ‘creative’ promises, ranging from retirement reforms, lower taxes, and massive deficit spending (this comes from the right-wing Lega, by the way), the doubling of minimum retirement payouts (Berlusconi’s Forza Italia), to a massive ‘grant’ of 10,000 € for everyone who turns 18 and the lowering of the voting age to 16 (the Social-Democrats).

Leaving aside issues of actually paying for these massive layouts, here’s the collection of the apparently ‘winning' issues on which Ms. Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia are campaigning on (my emphases):

Most recently, they were concerned about Italy’s children being exposed to ‘unacceptable gender indoctrination’. The occasion was the plan of the public broadcaster RAI to broadcast a new episode of the ‘Peppa Pig’ cartoon series, in which a protagonist, Penny Polar Bear, lives with two mothers.

But the perennial topic of migration is also providing political dynamite in the election campaign. In view of rising numbers of asylum seekers, right-wing parties warn that more than 100,000 migrants could reach Italy via the Mediterranean by the end of the year. Meloni’s call for a naval blockade off the coasts of North Africa caused outrage among left-wing parties and human rights activists. Meloni also calls for the establishment of camps for refugees in Africa and an early ‘sorting out’ of those not entitled to asylum.

At this point, it’s perhaps quite safe to state that these topics are of great concern across European countries, to say nothing about the US (‘build the wall’). In all contexts, however, establishmentarian parties and their fellow travellers in legacy media will go to unimaginable extremes to deny that these two topics are of concern to a sizeable chunk of the population.

Needless to say, these two aspects are at the core of technocratic globalist integration everywhere. Over the past generation, most European countries have seen their share of non-European immigrants explode, and in most countries these recent newcomers now constitute 15-25% of the total resident population.

Apart from being a fundamentally democratic-republican problem (these newcomers often don’t get to vote, i.e., they are taxed without representation), this meta trend has also eroded social security and the public’s trust. Apart from rising disillusionment = lower turnout at elections, the anti-establishmentarian factions, such as Ms. Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia, the Austrian Freedom Party, Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland, or the Le Pen factions with varying names in France, to say nothing about UKIP and ‘Brexit’.

These parties may be deemed ‘systemic oppositions’, though, for these parties, if the eventually participate in government, will become corrupted by the possibilities of feasting at the public trough, to say nothing about the seemingly endless possibilities of perks and the like offered by Transatlanticism and its many think tanks, policy bureaus, and NGOs.

Europe’s Future: A Right-Wing Resurgence

At some point, though, the ‘normative weight of the factual’ (Georg Jellinek) will become too big, and these carefully crafted systems of control will fail when faced with too many stressors at the same time.

One of them is the failure of propaganda, clearly visible once one reads, however casually, the Italian papers. It’s no coincidence that Austrian state media has picked up on the impending doom of Italy (/sarcasm), for there’s a slate of state and the federal presidential election coming in Covidistan, and it doesn’t look well for any of the established parties: voter abstention—as high as 42-43% in the municipal election in Krems, Lower Austria—appears the ‘new normal’, with plenty of inroads for any even halfway charismatic and authentic politician.

So, the fake shock of legacy media is only possible to understand in light of the above, as well as once due consideration is given to the fact that Italy is a huge country within the EU. If Sweden (which seems poised to vote quite similarly tomorrow, with the Sweden Democrats standing a good chance of ending on top of the polls) or Austria go one of these ways, not much happens.

BUT IF A BIG COUNTRY does it, things might look quite differently. I suppose that the pencil pushers in Brussels (and Washington) are getting increasingly nervous about the prospects of an Italian-style political revolution against ‘the system’.

As an aside, here’s how Italian media (Il Post) described the situation (my emphases):

The results do not show any particular surprises, but indicate trends that have already been in evidence in recent weeks: such as a growth of Fratelli d’Italia over the [Social] Democratic Party. Until the beginning of August, the two parties were estimated practically equal, at around 22-23%: according to some polls, Fratelli d’Italia now has at least a 4-point lead over the PD [Partito Democratico, i.e., the Social Democrat bloc], thus above the margin of error conventionally set at 3 per cent.

It is plausible that the final result will still be different: the polls do not try to predict how an election will end but take a snapshot of the reality of the moment, since the people surveyed are asked which party they would vote for today. All institutes also believe that a significant proportion of voters are still undecided or will decide at the last minute whether to vote or not: these are movements that could shift several percentage points between now and 25 September.

Bottom Lines

Leaving aside the disclaimers, here’s what I think: if Italy votes as the polling data—which is, let’s keep this in mind, nothing that cannot be expected—there may be some bigger changes coming in the next months, esp. as such a change might inaugurate more openness about, say, the energy crisis (which also fuels the current moment), the consequences of the Covid-19 injectables, or the sinister machinations of Transatlantic institutions in domestic European politics.

Change may be coming rather sooner than later. It’s also safe to expect the joining of establishmentarian forces, lots of whataboutism, and pretensions that ‘none of this could be foreseen’.

We do live in kinda interesting times, but keep in mind that we the people are up against the combined might of the establishment globalists and their fellow travellers in legacy media. They will tell a different story, and it’s perhaps upon people like you and me to speak up.