Here is an answer I posted to some comments posted on BoingBoing:

I am sick and tired of all these people who think by what they are told to think. Beppe Grillo is a populist (which, I guess, should be a bad thing), DiPietro and Travaglio are "justicialists" (means that they want to apply law at all costs - I don't know if such a word exists in english (or italian, for that matter) - , again I guess it's a bad thing), Santoro is a leftist, and so on and so forth. First of all these people probably do not even know what those words mean. Second, this is a very common and practical way to avoid discussing the subjects proposed. Because Grillo is a populist - and I assume that it is a bad thing - I won't agree to any of the things he says. So I won't listen. What is wrong with you? I mean aside from a constat brainwash from Italian media? You may not agree with all the things he (or others) says, but it's not a good reason to just ignore everything he says because of that. He may be excessive sometimes, but he brings up issues which need discussion. He's a showman and he has his ways of telling things, politicians should get inspiration from that and discuss problems the "proper" way. Italian have that very bad habit of considering not worth listening seriously to anything that doesn't come from the mouth of an old professor of some kind "because he must know what he's speaking about"! That's plainly stupid. Also people often complain that Grillo (or others) only show the relevant part of a subject to prove their point, hiding other points of view. First, prove that. Secondly, most people do that, if not all. Thirdly, then open you own f*****g blog where you show the hidden part of these subjects, maybe people will agree with you and you'll have proven your point. Like americans have http://www.michaelmoore.com/ and http://www.moorewatch.com/, we could have the same thing. But no, it's easier to discredit people instead of countering their arguments. It's easier to prove that the opposition is as corrupt as the government, instead of fixing corruption in your own party. It's easier to cast Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt on the politician who is maybe the only honest one in Italy, instead of demonstrating with proof that you are as honest as he is (of course if you aren't it's easier to do that...)

Italians have this bad habit of thinking by absolute ideologies, one belongs to the right or to the left. Fascists or Communists.

Sorry for my rant