THE "CONTRA" OR
THE "ALWAYS AGAINST".
By Renato Cocchi,MD
On June 2004, in the recent European
elections in Italy, the "contras" at the left side of Left Parties
accounted for 13.1%. If we add the "contras " (Fiamma Tricolore and
Mussolini List ) at the right side of the Party of the Right, there is 2.5%
more, for which the whole "contras" went over 15%.
The rate of those people who see as
half-empty the filled glass to half is about of 20% and there is not any
emotional connotation in this judgement. So it is very curious, it isn't? One
may be "against" without any need to be against a specific thing. If
there is an object, it is going better, because so one can rationalise his
non-rational contrary judgement.
The late Lyndon Johnson said a time that
anything a ruler has did, there was always been a percentage of
"contras".
The folklore in Italy knows the "always
against" as the Bastian Contrario (the contrary Sebastian). In United
Kingdom they called her "The contrary Mary".
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