My April 25th
Ultimately, he had expressed himself doubtfully: "I could have turned this dull, gray room into a bivouac for gangs. I could: but I didn't, at least not at first."
Instead, look what a kind FB user wrote to me a little while ago:
“Recover the €120 billion in annual tax evasion/avoidance!!! Is it possible that for the last 30 years we've always had to listen to the same ridiculous analyses? That the blanket is always too short? Is it possible that the country is always supported by the same unfortunates? Make those who deserve to pay taxes! We would not only be the fourth world power (more money for infrastructure, education, healthcare, research), but there would also be more peace and social justice. Oh, I forgot about the €60 billion a year that goes to corruption… Then, also out of respect for the Christian values you're so fond of, or the ideological ones of the left, you, dear parliamentarians, donate 30% of your "modest" salary to a fund for healthcare for the poor or for the repair of roads, aqueducts and bridges and for the hydrogeological management of the territory. I'm tired of listening to your theatrics!!! You don't even know how much half a kilo of ordinary bread costs!!”
I charitably replied:
“My goodness, what a concentration of Grillism! Nostalgic for the income from the deprivation of liberty? You've said so many stupid things that I don't know where to begin. So: parliamentarians' allowances have been revised downwards (cut, to make me understand you) five times since 2000, furthermore the number of parliamentarians has been reduced by over a third, so 30% of parliamentary allowances is equivalent to 900,000 euros a month with which you would like to fix roads, aqueducts, bridges, hydrogeological instability and care for the poor! But it's wonderful, the solution was within reach and no one had ever thought of it! But do you know that with a similar sum you could maintain 1.57% of Italian provincial roads (excluding hydrogeological instability, state roads, municipal roads, and highways)? We've turned a corner, haven't we? Problem solved, right? The truth is one and only one: that you Grillini stink of democracy, that in your Intimate (or lowly) you are nothing but fascists, enemies of Parliament and the very concept of democratic representation, to undermine which you propose solutions that I wouldn't even call gut instinct, but downright sphincter-driven. I know how much a kilo of bread costs, I know how much a parliamentarian earns and how much he works (something the runaways with whom you infested the institutions didn't know), and I know how much road maintenance costs. What you know, you have amply demonstrated.”
And so he could have (in 1922), but he didn't.
LVI's crutches, that is, our orthopteran friends , on the other hand, could, and did, and the results are visible.
The gangs of anti-parliamentarianism, that is, fascism, are now camped out everywhere: not only in Montecitorio, but in every human gathering, in every social arena, in every television studio, including those run by verilibberali™️! There will be no easy way back from this regime change , my friends (surely it won't be enough to sing the famous kletzmer tune on command) because this cancer has spread through the body of democracy and cannot be operated on. The only way to defeat it is to calmly await the death of the organism that hosts and nourishes it. A disturbing prospect, I understand, but unavoidable. The greater the contempt Italians feel for democratic representation, the greater the pain and mourning they will have to endure to relearn to appreciate it.
In short: before things get better, they'll have to get worse, because, as the well-known (to some) taxi driver said: "If they ate everything!…"
This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2026/04/il-mio-25-aprile.html on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:57:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.