Who Is Giorgia Meloni?

 

I normally do not comment on world events unless I feel I have something unique to say. And I have no special insights regarding Giorgia Meloni. Like the rest of the extra-Italian world, I am trying to make head or tail of her. Is she a fascist? Is she a conservative? 

The one thing she is evidently not is a liberal, like myself. In North America, liberals like Milton Friedman have been, absurdly, classified as “extreme right wing.” But Europe is a different matter. 

Meloni is strong on family and on nationality. Family is better than state, and nationality is better than tribe, but either can also be a dangerous idolatry. Liberals stress the individual. Conservatives and fascists both stress the collective, family and nationality; as does the modern, socialist “left.”

 Meloni stresses that we are all unique in our “genetic coding.” 

That sounds fascist rather than conservative.

I am not my genetic coding; for I am not an animal. I am unique because I am an independent consciousness, an independent free will, an independent soul. All souls are equal in the eyes of God, and we should not be defined by our genetic coding, or our nationality, or our family.

Meloni seems especially opposed to “renting wombs.” As a liberal, I do not see the problem. This is a voluntary transaction; nobody is exploited. A child gets to live. As each human life is infinitely valuable, why would one be opposed? It seems only a way to attack homosexuals. It puts family as an ideal above the individual. This seems sinister.

Nice meloni!

Meloni paints “financial speculators” trying to turn us all into “consumers” as the villains of society. This is where fascism is Marxist; she agrees here with the modern left, not with liberalism. This is class conflict. Most often, the “financial speculators” are really just ordinary people trying to build their pension income. For a liberal, the villain is the bureaucracy, which wants power, not money. In a free market, consumption itself is a purely voluntary activity in which no one is exploited, and everyone gets more or less what they want.

Just paint the “financial speculators” as Jewish, and there you go—Nazism.

Her emphasis on ethnicity might seem a good idea in Italy, for the sake of social unity; but it is a very bad idea if transposed to Canada or the USA, which are not ethnic states. It is, in two words, “identity politics.” It leads, in an ethnically diverse state like the US or Canada, to multiculturalism and tribalism. Even in Italy—despite denials, ultimately, sinister implications for ethnic minorities like the Jews.

The problem is that Meloni is also saying many things that are common sense, and have been suppressed in public discourse. Even I, if I were in Italy, would be strongly tempted to vote for her just to force an end to the censorship and allow open discussion.

By silencing all opposing thoughts, the lunatic left who have been in power have paved the primrose way for an eloquent fascist. Exactly as they did in the Weimar Republic.