Timothy Birdnow

I am blissfully ignorant of italian politics, and hope to largely remain so in the future. Italy is, to my mind, just another quasi-socialist hipster haven, with a lot of hot fashion models, some great food, and a hippie Catholic Pope with a radical hat (who actually lives in another country than Italy.) Beyond that I care little for Italy as a country, because it really has no major bearing on America or on foreign affairs. Oh, I wish Italy well, and know we need to maintain friendship with them, but I'm just not that into the place.

So I haven't really been following the recent Constitutional amendment vote. I don't know much about Italy's government and don't really care.

But word of the thrashing the reform measure received caught my eye, and I just have to comment on a few salient points.

First, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi pushed a major reform of Italy's government. Wikipedia stated that the reforms would reduce the power of the Senate and empower the Presidency - and the Prime Minister. I will spare all and sundry the details of the political machine in Italy and what changes were sought, but suffice it to say there has been a reform movement since the 1980's - a movement that has failed to get these same reforms for decades now. Apparently someone really, really wants them but can't explain why to the general public.

Renzi's efforts got creamed in the referednum, leading him to announce his resignation.

So why did this catch my eye given I find italian politics dull? Well, the last paragraph for starters; this is the hallmark of the Left, to never give up on some plan or scheme. Liberals believe that "history is on their side" - indeed the name they have given themselves is Progessive, as though there is some overarching end to history (outside of the religious ends as seen by Christians or Jews or Muslims) and that they are the foot soldiers in a cosmic battle of righteousness versus darkness. Karl Marx thought so; in The Communist Manifesto he proclaimed the inevitability of Communism because of historical forces, then immediately called for "workers of the world" to "unite. You have only your chains to lose!" This is, of course, completely unnecessary if history will make this happen anyway. Why struggle and fight and battle when you are guaranteed to win? It is part of the madness of the Left that they BELIEVE victory is theirs yet continue an endless Jihad anyway. Why not simply relax and let it come? Sometimes things come faster if you try not to rush it, and sometimes things are better that way. Anyone who has read MacBeth knows that the usurper would have been the King had he simply waited, but by stealing the throne he brought down destruction upon himself.

Liberals never let things go; they are the sorest of sore losers. When Conservatives lose we accept the precedent (even if we don't like it) and go from there, but Liberals always put their program on a back burner, preparing to bring it back up. As a result we have Obamacare, a scheme the Left has been trying to implement for decades. Gay marriage was reviled as a concept but they kept plugging away until they got what they wanted. In fact, if you look at every success of the Left (and they have been legion) of the last fifty years or more you will see something that failed at first but was brought back around repeatedly, until the public was worn down. They call this "education" or "preparation" but in reality it is an attempt to thwart the will of the people. Eventually they do. So they never give up on an idea once it is conceived.

Here in the St.Louis area they did that with a smoking ban. Public outrage at the proposal killed it several times, but the liberals pushing it simply brought it back over and over and eventually it passed. The ancient Greeks used to execute someone who brought an initiative back for a third vote if it failed; they were trying to thwart the will of the people. We now see ourselves as too civilized, so the Progressives can throw continual temper tantrums until they get what they want.

This holds true in Italy as well, apparently; these reforms have been the endgame of the establishment there for decades.

Which tells me quite a bit. It tells me that the elites wanted these reforms to further strengthen the European Union, preparatory to creating an United States of Europe. These reforms are needed for the Anschluss.

The failure of Renzi's efforts has led to a major drop in the value of the Euro out of fear of an Italexit. It seems the Italian People aren't too happy with the Europeanization of their country, and at least want to hold to their old ways.

Another thing that caught my eye was the discovery that the chief strategist for Renzi's reforms was Jim Messina.

No, I'm not talking about the former musical partner of Kenny Loggins, but rather a Democrat operative who managed Barack Obama's campaign and who was instruemental in the passage of the American Care Act aka Obamacare. Messina is considered the "most powerful man you never heard of" in Washington, a former aid to Max Baucus. He's a snake; he was the guy who devised Baucus's notoriously anti-homosexual campaign ad, and later he would be instrumental in ending "don't ask, don't tell" in the military for full acceptance of homosexual behavior - a major change that the Left had sought for a long time (don't ask don't tell was Bill Clinton's initiative, which radically altered the moral code of the U.S. military and Obama completed what Clinton started.) He helped Baucus to stop George W. Bush from creating small private accounts inside of social security, an institution that is going to become insolvent.

He was also Chief of Staff for Byron Dorgan and recently ran a superpac for Hillary Clinton.

What was a leftist political hit man doing running a campaign to reform the Italian government? Apparently he works as a consultant to the British Conservative party, too (who are in no way conservative by the metrics we employ in the U.S.)

American leftists seem to be not just content to screw up the United States but want to export their insane ideas. Snake Eyes James Carville goes around the globe doing likewise, selling his services in places like Argentina to promote the Revolution.

If anything should tell us about the totalitarian nature of Progressivism it should be this. There is an elite cadre that thinks of itself as the masters of the universe, and they seek to seduce the whole world into following them on their road to Hell. Borders are antiquated ideas and mean little to people like Jim Messina. There can be no choice involved, no diversity where this is concerned; the liberal must be obeyed, believed, even celebrated everywhere. We must all go toge4ther hand in hand. Those who will not go joyously into the Kingdom Age will have to be liquidated.

Why? Well, when their ideas are tried on an experimental level they fail. But if the whole world is forced to go along...

So this vote in Italy repudiated the Progressive empire, at least temporarily. The liberals will ride this out and fight another day, and our side may well become complacent (as we usually do, thinking a victory is a victory.) The Left never sleeps in their evil

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