Timostene argued that after the attacks and coup attempts of the 1970s, Italian democracy was gradually being hollowed out through a more gradual process. In his opinion, Silvio Berlusconi's televisions in the 1980s and later social media had weakened critical and civic consciousness, turning public debate into a clash between fan bases. To support his thesis, he cited a study by three Italian economists published in 2019, which suggested that those who watched those televisions as children grew up with fewer critical tools and civic sense. Timostene also stated that in an increasingly older and frightened country, elections could be easily won and that Parliament had been progressively emptied: he pointed out that there were almost three votes of confidence a month and laws that, in his opinion, were partly declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court and then reintroduced by the government. By citing the security decrees, the presence of the military in the streets, and attempts to amend the Constitution by majority vote, he spoke of a plan financed by a black international. He concluded that what the bombs had failed to achieve was being accomplished by a screen. #Democrazia #Libertà #Politica (translated)