Explaining American Politics Again: The Health of Democracy by
Jerry Krase  It is difficult to explain why, in reference to the
passage of HR3962 "The Affordable Health Care for America Act,"
so many people who will actually benefit from it protested
against it (and continue to do so). Attempts like this one are
doomed to failure but I least I can say "I tried." (Ci ho
provato)  Not everything is easily translated from English to
Italian and vice versa. In linguistics, cognates are words that
have a common etymological origins and Italian cognates give me
agita. Case in point; when Italians demonstrate (dimostrano) or
protest (protestano) against something they don't go to
demonstrations (dimostrazioni) they go to manifestazioni
(demonstrations) instead.  Similarly difficult to understand are
the sad sights of people protesting against their own best
interests (contro i loro propri interessi) as I witnessed while
I was driving out of a shopping mall where half of the stores
are shuttered and wannabee drug pus