Don't blame the (ignorant?) people that are unable to read outside of their native tongue and that only get the state sponsored media, Berlusconi has an enormous amount of power, think of Rupert Murdoch as president or something to that effect and you get the picture.
I get the picture very much, having lived in Italy on and off over the past 15 years. You can say what you want about Berlusconi (and I regularly do), but you can't lay all the blame at his feet, either. Romano Prodi managed to beat him twice at the polls, despite all his media power. Those people are arguing for that decision with their own twisted logic and of their own volition.
