1 The Germans used to be smarter than this. But look at the great results of the Italian elections. They now have a conservative Prime Minister. I hope she and Liz Truss become friends!

2 Usually, SMM Panel India can't read articles online, but today I'm glad I did. The way you put your views over this is excellent.

3 Yeah; Italy did great. Let's hope it's a shadow of things to come here.

Of course, the way this has always worked is the Left moves forward, then consolidates. Often the Right wins an election or two but is stymied in moving an agenda forward (and reversing the Left's agenda), then after everyone gets used to the idea the Left takes power again and moves the ball. It's the Communist dialectic, two steps forward one step back.

We've been losing to that for a hundred years now.

So I'm not going to be overly confident in Italy's elections. Or in whatever happens in this next here. The Left still has all the institutions sewed up.

4 What Italy needs to do, and it was proven by the EU threats in case this lady won, is to pull a Brexit (Iexit?) from the EU. If she does as good a job as it appears she might, it just might be that the Left will be kept at bay for awhile.

My fond hope is to see the EU fall apart, and that would really hurt the Left.

5 That would be wonderful, wouldn't it Dana!  The E.U. is nothing but a corrupt and degenerate institution for the profit of the rich and powerful. Good riddance, I sez!

6 Yeah, sez me too!

7 I caught a little of the BBC news and they were talking about upcoming elections in Brazil, bragging about how the "radical right wing government" of Bolsonaro was going to be kicked out. They claim the public of Brazil hates him. Methinks it's wishful thinking, but it may be true too.

We shall see but I think the rule of the elites is in some trouble. This election will tell us much of what we need to know.

The problem is I don't think this can be won at the ballot box. They have taken over so many institutions that they can afford patience and we can't.