Then there is the whole question of Italy. Berlusconi has strengthened his support and is a threat to civil liberties. He controls the media, and the left are weak and powerless against him. He is not far-right in the sense that Hitler was far-right, but he is a threat to democracy. Italy has become a western-European equivalent of the sort of guided democracy you get in Russia. (
just scroll down to the end of the last one)
Staying up until 3:30 to read commentaries to the EU election isn't really the best way to cheer up, but
reading this made his patronage of
lolsogeographic a lot less lol.