(There are too many posts here - that makes me confused :D)

Yes, Berlusconi is a complete crap, but the pseudo Left-winged government which we had before wasn't much better. Berlusconi put the army around in all the major Italian towns (mine among these !), but it was the so-called Left-winged government which completely destroyed our Welfare State and reduced most of Italian people to poverty...
I haven't been voting since years !