Do yourself a favor and go read a short speech given by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. She speaks in English and credits Michael Jackson as her ‘teacher.’
Meloni advocates defense of Western values and the need to support and model them in a world grown too fond of authoritarianism. I am impressed with her clear, non-chauvinistic conservatism. Perhaps you will be as well. Here is a key excerpt.
The West is a system of values in which the person is central, men and women are equal and free, and therefore the systems are democratic, life is sacred, the state is secular, and based on the rule of law.
Above all, we need to recover awareness of who we are. As Western peoples, we have a duty to keep this promise and seek the answer to the problems of the future by having faith in our values: a synthesis born out of the meeting of Greek philosophy, Roman law, and Christian humanism.
