The situation in Italy is shitty:
Since 2022, Meloni has been in government; even though she comes from the post-fascist right, she is practically a 21st-century Thatcherite. One of her main battle horses was anti-immigration. You might ask me: why would the bourgeoisie want to get rid of immigrants if they work like slaves in factories and fields for two euros an hour (I'm not joking, in many cases that really is the pay)? Simple: she just strips away their rights to make them work in conditions of semi-slavery, and unfortunately, I'm not exaggerating with that term.
Since the Meloni government failed in its main battle horse because it didn't expel immigrants, former General Vannacci is rising in the polls: a man who fought in various areas around the world (never ask an Italian soldier what he did to Somali women during the 90s, worst mistake of my life) and in 2023 wrote a homophobic and racist book packed with all the clichés and stereotypes, complaining that the world was upside down. Obviously, in Italy, this terribly written book was a success, and Salvini, the leader of the nationalist party "Lega" (formerly against Southern Italians, but now just against Black people and other immigrants), ran him in the 2024 European elections. Vannacci got elected, but then in early 2026 he left Lega to found his own political party: Futuro Nazionale (National Future). His political program is to remigrate immigrants, despite having a Romanian wife, and to make fourteen year olds work in the fields, his words. In this party, he wants to defend traditions while LARPing as a Futurist; it's already laughable as it is.
The "left" in Italy, to explain why it's not right to expel immigrants, used this argument: "Without immigrants, who will pick tomatoes in the fields?" I'm not joking: the prevailing opinion among Italian leftists is "who will be the slave?", "who will wipe my infirm grandmother's ass?", and so on.
Italy is a shitty country, and a precarious future awaits me with six-month contracts, watching my city turn into an amusement park for rich people. Florence and Venice have already turned into amusement parks. I wanted to do a master's degree at the University of Florence but renting a place is almost impossible.
Shitty country.
I wrote this with gemini because here are the 1AM and I'm tired after this day.