Many people here in the US asked me why I’m permanently leaving Italy. Among other reasons, I simply cannot stand anymore to live in a country that has elected, with overwhelming majority, Silvio Berlusconi as Prime Minister. His latest, public controversy with his wife – over his unabashed passion for very young women – falls perfectly within his pimpy, little Cesar style. This isn’t a simple case of Bushism, I’m not surprised italians elected him and I will not be when they will elect him again and again: he is the Prime Minister most italians chose, elected and deserve. I’m just not italian enough to appreciate a guy for which the rules, any rule (including laws), is an obstacle to be removed. I have good reasons to believe most italians truly appreciate his style and approve of his conduct. I feel just like a transexual now: someone born in a nationality he doesn’t recognize as his own. But I’ll be dutch very soon, and so Berlusconi will be just another international clown, from a country that produces the best food in the world – and unfortunately very little else.
