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Italian Populists
| >>364123
They are selfrighteous bourgeois assholes that only will blame "foreigners" to distract from their own incompetence to solve the actual problems in italy (they actually benefit from).
| where do poor Italian's live ?
| >>364318
In the south of course. It's like (almost) everywhere in the world: The south got not industry, they have a more agricultural based economy.
Question: Who is more Powerful:
- Someone who owns a orange plantage?
- Someone who owns a factory/company/bank?
| >>365520 It's not related to Geography though. Northern Italy is overall more rich due to its cultural heritage compared to the South. The South is very traditionalist and business will often go through the mafia. The North has a far more Liberal system in place which allows a fairer balance and greater development overall.
Agriculture can be a factor but it's more of the ability to create the needed policies at the specific time. Flexibility is lackluster in the South.
| >>365539
It's related to geography in that the south is more fertile, that's where the bulk of your Italian wines & olives come from. Agriculture is inherently less flexible.
| >>365550 But not all countries have a fertile South. Greece for instance has a lot more empty rocks than decent fertile land and they're not very flexible in this regard. If you mean that a specific area will end up more poor due to agriculture, it still really depends. Holland did it pretty decently as an example.
| >>365555
The latter. & it's a difference in the degree of mechanization & the type of crops. Italian agriculture has historically focused more on grapes, olives, tomatoes, & tobacco, the prices of which are more volatile than the staple sugar, potatoes, & wheat which are grown in the Netherlands. Since these crops utilize different machines, it'd take an investment or a huge increase in labor to switch over to staple crops.
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| What do folks think of Salvini & the 5 Star Movement? We have any Italians here?
They both seem pretty right wing to me, & I'm not entirely convinced Salvini wouldn't turn neofascist if he had the leeway to do so. Personally, I'm of the opinion that the Eurocrats had this one coming. Saddling a country with austerity, combined with the migrant issue, rings a lot of bells about Weimar Germany & the war debt & antisemitism.