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Originally Posted by Andrew Frisardi
Recently Berlusconi, the third-richest person in Italy, said that the economic crisis is mostly “psychological,” a matter of people’s perception. And yet people voted for his party.
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Yes, well, quite: that's exactly what I mean. I know an intelligent, thoughtful person from Sicily and he votes for Berlusconi. I also know a (reasonably) thoughtful, intelligent American and he voted twice for Bush, but as you say the option has been taken away. Ostensibly, anyway.