Our political representatives

The Italian political representative considers himself no business man, but a soldier acting in defence of justice and peace.
He is smooth and corteous; he smiles in a superior way; he is agreable and obliging.
There are various, centuries-old true Italian traditions to secure his behaviour.

1) All orders and directives to the public are worded in such a way that they should have no meaning whatever.

2) All official letters are written in such a language that the oracles of Delphi sound as examples of clear, outspoken, straightforward statements compared with them.

3) Political representatives never make decisions, they only promise to "consider", "consider favourably" or, and this is the utmost, "reconsider" certain questions.

4) In principle the Political Representative stands always at the disposal of the public.
In practice he is either in "conference" or out for lunch, or in, but having his coffee, or just out.
Some develop an admirable technique of going out for a coffee before coming back from lunch.

The Italian polical representative, unlike the rough bully we often find on the rest of Europe, is the Obedient Servant of the public.
In the rest of Europe rich and influential people, or those who have friends or cousins or brothers in law, tenants, business associates, often cannot have their requests fulfilled.
In Italy there is a certain degree of corruption and your obedient servant will do what you require, depending who you are.
And this is the real beuty of non-democracy.