Lega is far a far right populist Italian party.
Its leader (the guy in the billboard), Salvini, is, at this time, Italian minister of transportation. He is doing all sort of things to limit active and suistansble mobility, speed traps, 30 km/zones and pedonalizations.
Now, the billboard for the European election campaign.
It reads: "to protect the homes and cars of the Italians "
He is not even protecting the drivers, just the cars 😢
Another interesting billboard (also by Lega) used for some recent local election is the following:
Which reads “let’s save our cars from European eco-absurdities”
I’m italian, granted I surely haven’t voted for these backward monkeys, I’m utterly ashamed we have to be represented by these a-holes.
Nonetheless I’m not even blaming them for winning the vote, the only reason they won is because the opposition was even worse, had even less ideas and those few were as much useless or worse, and their leaders were even less charismatic, aside being catatonically and obliviously detached from the people and the people’s interests they should represent
This is basically the current international struggle. Fascist assholes are awful, but neoliberal assholes are also shit… the neoliberals keep chugging along until a country gets fed up and votes in a fascist just to give it a try because the neoliberals aren’t working. Then you get all the proud boys and neo-nazis coming out of the closet and, in many cases, the mechanisms of democracy get damaged to the point where its difficult to actually get another fair election.
This is the problem and the solution (pushing out corrupt/ineffective neoliberals in favor of actual liberal representation) is fucking hard. It’s especially broken in America where there is no reasonable way for a third party to gain ground - the liberal party needs to be torn down from the inside like the tea party did to the Republicans.