Giorgia Meloni (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒordʒa meˈloːni]; born 15 January 1977) is an Italian politician and journalist. A member of the Chamber of Deputies in Italy since 2006, she currently heads the Brothers of Italy (FdI) political party, and has been the president of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party since 2020.
Born in Rome, Meloni joined Youth Front, the youth wing of the neo-fascist political party Italian Social Movement (MSI) in 1992. Later she became the national leader of Student Action, the student movement of National Alliance (AN). She was a councilor of the Province of Rome from 1998 to 2002, after which she became the president of Youth Action, the youth wing of AN. In 2008, she was appointed Minister of Youth in the Berlusconi IV Cabinet, a role which she held until 2011. In 2012, she co-founded Brothers of Italy (FdI) and became its president in 2014. She took part in the 2014 European Parliament election, and in the 2016 Rome municipal election as a mayoral candidate; she ended up not getting elected in both elections. After the 2018 general election, she led FdI into the opposition during the entire parliamentary legislature, letting FdI grow its popularity in the opinion polls, particularly during the Draghi Cabinet, in which FdI was the only opposition party. Her FdI topped at the first place in the 2022 general election.
A right-wing populist and nationalist, her political positions have been described as far-right. She is opposed to abortions, euthanasia, and to partnerships, marriages, and parenting by same-sex couples, instead asserting that nuclear families are exclusively headed by male-female pairs. Opposed to the reception of non-European migrants and multiculturalism, she has been accused of xenophobia and Islamophobia. A supporter of NATO, she maintains Eurosceptic views regarding the European Union and was in favour of better relations with Russia before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine which she condemned, pledging to keep sending arms to Ukraine. She has expressed controversial views, such as praising Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in 1996, and Giorgio Almirante in 2020, a Nazi collaborator and co-founder of MSI.
and here is the definition of far right:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politicslets see what happens in the next 5-10 years.
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Quote (Black XistenZ @ Sep 24 2022 11:00pm)
The point is not about whether Meloni and her party are neo-fascists, the point is why people are suddenly willing to vote for such a party when they weren't in the not-so-distant past. It's really simple: a significant chunk of voters disagreed with the official line on the mass migration from Africa/the Middle East, but instead of some of the mainstream parties making them an offer, they labeled these people as nazis/fascists/racists and basically went "we're not really gonna change course and if you're looking for a democratic alternative, tough luck". They were basically daring these people to vote for the far-right and banked on a critical mass of disgruntled voters being held back by the stigma. It worked, to some degree, for some time. But like I said, this is a card that our political elites could only play once and its effect is clearly starting to wear thin.
And more importantly: all the voters who crossed the rubicon once and brought themselves to vote for a far-right party will have a much easier time doing it again when they're unhappy with the current state of affairs, say because of covid, because of the inflation/energy crisis, or whatever wedge issue there will be in the future. Once the genie is out of the bottle, you won't get it back in again. I doubt that the idiots in Brussels or Berlin have fully realized yet how much long-term damage they inflicted on their own cause over the past decade.
this was a good post.
This post was edited by ferdia on Sep 26 2022 06:52am