There are going to be a lot of ridiculous headlines as hysterical left-wing publications come to terms with the (presumed) next conservative Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Election of far-right Italian Government prompts warnings for LGBTQI community to re-think travel plans, says The West Australian, reporting from an alternate universe.
World leaders promise vigilance on human rights as far-right win in Italy, adds The Guardian.
Protect abortion and gay rights, Italy warned after hard-Right election victory, insisted MSN, despite Meloni already explicitly stating that she has no plans to interfere with abortion laws.
She also said that she would ‘govern for everyone’ but somehow national cohesion has turned into accusations of Fascism.
LGBTQ Italians on alert as right-wing alliance triumphs in election writes, NBC News.
There is, of course, no evidence at all to advise the LGBTQ community of any change in risk. The entire narrative that ‘LGBTQ people should live in terror’ is a reprehensible fabrication by sore losers in the activist community who have decided to spread fear amongst a minority group to discredit their political opposition.
In reality, the freight train of unpopular Woke and gender identity activism, which is experiencing a major backlash globally for the harm it presents to women and children, has been told to ‘hold up’ in Italy.
It’s a wonder Twitter and Facebook haven’t taken down these media outlets for repeating fake news, considering they are so quick to punish everyone else.
Giorgia Meloni’s dominant campaign platform was anti-illegal immigration along with a broader ‘anti-Woke’ stance. Italy has endured years of unrestrained migration that has left the nation a mess of crime, gangs, violence, and social unrest – all because Germany invited the third-world to ‘come on over’ and try out the welfare system under former Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Italy is angry. Through no fault of its own, people have seen their nation abused by uninvited guests who have caused major criminal harm. Italians want these poorly behaved illegal immigrants sent back to their homelands so that Italy can recover from its other economic woes – which is a perfectly reasonable demand for any nation to make.
Just because a handful of bureaucrats in Brussels think mass migration is a virtue, doesn’t mean the people have to agree.
While Meloni might be a nationalist (in the classical, not revolutionary sense), she is certainly not a Fascist – although left-wing media outlets partial to a bit of international socialism don’t understand the difference.
The Brothers of Italy have a few stray roots in Neo-fascist movements, but the problem with European political parties is that nearly all of them have distant feelers in either communism, Fascism, Marxism, socialism, or National Socialism. It’s impossible not to, given the melting pot of European politics during the last two world wars that dominated their political landscape. Modern parties evolved out of this mess and bear little resemblance to their past. Australia, America, and the UK are largely removed from this problem and so many observers are easily fooled by the media into thinking there is something extraordinary about a dubious history.
What matters with modern European parties is their stated policies and ethics, none of which are Fascist in the case of Meloni.
Remember, Mussolini’s Fascism was about uniting the divided ethnic groups and classes of Italy to trigger his long-desired workers’ socialist revolution – which isn’t surprising considering he was a Marxist socialist. Later, his Fascist movement came to describe the uniting of the previously fragmented Italian nation under the trade unions in a government controlled corporate state (a distinctly left-wing idea) – ending the class conflict by creating the totalitarian absolute government.
Mussolini’s nationalism was in service of socialist causes.
Popular European international socialists (rebranded as globalists) held the belief that nationhood and borders were ‘bad’ because they got in the way of centralised bureaucratic control. Nationalist socialist ideologies from last century rebelled against international socialism with the creation of alternate movements such as National Socialism (a race collective) and Fascism (a national collective). The two are not interchangeable, despite the laziness of modern commentators. There were quite a few less famous variations – none of which were communist and so the communists labelled them ‘far-right’. Liberal, Western, capitalist democracies were not even on this left-right spectrum.
This disaster is what we call the socialist civil war of Europe where competing versions of collectivist ideology dragged the world into half a century of bloodshed. The political spectrum runs from absolute state control on the far left, to true anarchy on the far right. Every authoritarian government is, by definition, on the left. This includes theocracies, which can inhabit both sides.
In the modern era, Meloni’s victory is a rebellion against the anti-democratic European Union which has been infuriating member states for years. Many of the critical problems facing European nations like Italy only exist because of policy failures and reckless decisions made by the European Union.
The only parallel you could draw between Meloni and Fascism is that her political movement is another rebellion against foreign socialist bureaucracies that have been working to erode national sovereignty. Her solution is a return to democracy, capitalism, and conservatism – almost the exact opposite of Fascism. If this changes, then we can re-open the discussion.
Given the unhinged headlines, anyone would think that Meloni had given a speech about establishing a dictatorship rather than returning to the conservative values of family and religion cherished by the majority of Italians.
So, why is the LGBTQ community spreading propaganda about Meloni and issuing unfounded travel warnings?
Mostly, because victimhood is an industry and if you’re not being oppressed you have to create the narrative that you might be oppressed. It is more likely that fringe activists who sit at the edge of acceptable speech are annoyed that the overwhelmingly Catholic Italy has rejected gender ideology politics (which is a separate movement to gay rights) and decided to re-embrace religion – the natural enemy of Marxism.
If we are talking about specifics, the activist community are still miffed that the Brothers of Italy joined a coalition of parties to vote down a bill designed to ‘make violence against women and LGBTQ people a hate crime’. Of course, nothing is ever as simple as it looks.
The Vatican took the unusual step of interfering to ensure the bill did not succeed, complaining that it threatened the religious freedom of the Catholic Church with evidence that if the bill became law it had the power to bring criminal cases against the Church for ‘refusing to conduct gay marriages, for opposing adoption by homosexual couples, or refusing to teach gender theory in Catholic schools’.
If the bill had constrained itself to genuine hate crimes, rather than arriving as a Trojan horse designed to incarcerate people for differences in opinion, it would have passed. In this case, it is the LGBTQ lobby that are the social aggressor looking to infringe upon other people’s liberties.
As a gay man and jurist Emanuele said:
‘We’ve overcome the danger of introducing the crime of having an opinion within our legal system, allowing for a judge to exercise discretion.’
Meloni made her views clear on this issue. ‘Yes to natural families, no to the LGBT lobby, yes to sexual identity, no to gender ideology, yes to the culture of life, no to the abyss of death.’ She also said that, ‘I believe a child has the right to grow up with a father and a mother,’ in reply to same-sex parenting questions.
For those who couldn’t find anything concrete to criticise Meloni on, they decided to speak hypothetically in the old ‘anything that isn’t active affirmation is discrimination’ routine.
‘Even if she doesn’t introduce any anti-LGBT laws, she will not speed up what we’re trying to do to improve the current situation. In fact, she will slow it down or do nothing about it, even though we’re already lagging behind our neighbours,’ said Robert Muzzetta, who is a board member of LGBTQ group Arcigay.
Hypocritical France can ‘watch Italy closely’ all it likes, but when it comes to free speech it was their nation that saw cartoonists murdered and the press blame the victims for causing offence. America, which is still recovering from their abortion debate, was more reserved in their criticism of Italy, stating that ‘Italy is a vital ally’ with a ‘strong democracy’.
The rise of Meloni is a response to arrogant left-wing politics practised by the born to rule class of the European Union. Those times, it seems, are coming to an end.
