Leave the gun, take the cannelloni

So most of the developed world desired stability in Italy and feel their prayers remained unanswered.  What about the Italians themselves ?

In contemporary history, few countries have had an impact on quotidian life as much a Italy.  That is probably not despite but rather due to the many military, political and therewith cultural influences the country has seen with foreign rulers, from north, east, south and west, many of which could be classified as internal conflicts.

Italy is a country that could but does not, unlike some of its fellow southern neighbours, rely on a glorious inheretance of past civilizations to defend its place in the present world.  Beyond the Roman empire, what makes up Italy, for a bit more than a century now, has never been a world dominant power whether economic, military or political, but has always made its mark in a fairly charismatic mix of progressivism and traditional mediterranean catholic life, which has given it its statute in the world, probably more so through private enterprise than by political role playing.

I am too impressed with the re-appearance of Silvio Berlusconi and even more so with the low score of Mario Monti. I am too more than just entertained with Beppe Grillo and not surprised with the relative rise of Pier Luigi Bersanni. 

However, it bothers me, substantially in fact, that such an evident variety of political choices embraced by an educated electorate is now being classified, mostly by those on the outside looking in, as messy, noisy, unstable, etc.  Something is very wrong if we should be afraid of a modern country facing political debate on maybe just about every issue, via democratically elected agents.

Perhaps one way to simplify future exposure to potential governamental deadlocks could be to significantly reduce the amount of political seats, procedures and issues and it would fit well into current politics anywhere in a civilized world that a country like Italy would be the first to take that step.