This is an election about Italy and what's right for them, not you nor anyone else.

Nevertheless as climate change and overpopulation put more and more pressure on economic growth, and people see their place in the world regress, you do see a rise in fundamentalism, in xenophobia and in intolerance. Those things come with a retreat from democracy. And they're not progress.

No, you clearly state that as a fact, even though it is clearly a value-judgement, viz. an opinion.

Hating LGBT people is hating. It's not just an opinion, is also a tautology.

There are no such 'concerns' except in paranoid minds.

You might be mistaken about that.

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