Italy: will we ever be free?

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Yesterday, once again, our Prime Minister Prodi lost a confidence vote in the Senate and had to resign, so we will soon go to the vote unless our President Napolitano decides to appoint an "ad interim" government to carry on the electoral reform. I don't know if the subject is of any interest, but my question is: how can we ever be free at all? As a matter of fact, the crysis who brought to Prodi's resignations started when the Minister of Justice Mastella left the government claiming that his former allies hadn't show any solidarity with him, after he and his wife have been suspected (and put under inquiries) of "concussion", a crime that (in Italy) means you use your power and influence to condition local and central administrations in order to achieve personal goals (for example, to find a job to a relative who shouldn't be appointed for that employment due to the lack of a requirement): instead of resigning for the shame, he went on saying he was innocent, and stating that (remember he was Minister of justice) judges are plotting against him!!! My question is: how can a people which is slave by nature ever think of get rid of this class of politicians (the opposition to Prodi is led by Mr. Berlusconi and his mafia-style entourage) and start to establish a true democracy? Here in Italy, if you are a talented person, you'll probably fall behind an idiot with no merits who's been "raccomandato" (this word can't be translated: it's the practice of asking to a powerful and influent person to find a job for someone - a friend, a relative, an elector, quite always the asker himself - in exchange for his vote and "eternal" devotion...that person, often a politician, through his power is pretty able to impose his candidate to whoever called to choose, who generally can't afford to "defy" him and is forced to accept the imposition)...And don't think it is seldom done: according to a report, a third of all italian workforce get their jobs through friends,relatives and acquaintances, and only about 5 percent find work through agency or headhunters (for further information, there's a nice article of the Herald tribune, that could be found at www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/07/europe/hiring.php ); if this is a normal attitude, most italians need to thank a politician for what they do, and this mean they are slave, and the situation is increasily worsening 'cause unemployment is one of the major issues of our country....Forgive me for my "vent", but here who can afford it chooses to go to work abroad (maybe to build their own future like did Mario Capecchi - 2007 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine - who 60 years ago migrated to the States), and who hasn't enough money, must probably clean the streets (if he manages to do so) even if he's graduated in law or literature (I know persons in that condition!!!). Please, I ask to any country: adopt us!!! We can't rule ourselves, so we'd rather be your slaves than slaves of this politics...in exchange we could offer you our food and our sunny climate...