This will require a massive public education campaign, because the perceived need for such limitations on domestic freedom has become so ingrained in the American psyche that most Americans are either not conscious of them or unaware that these are relatively new restrictions permitted only during the Cold War.
Similarly, employee self-direction and freedom (a la Google and Atlassian) is often perceived as a frivolous luxury confined to the world of quirky technology developers.
Alarm was also spread by Mr Berlusconi's initial insistence on a general election as the only way out of the political deadlock, and by his naming of a perceived stooge, Angelino Alfano, the secretary of his People of Freedom (PdL) movement, as his likely successor: the man who, as justice minister, introduced a 2008 law, later ruled unconstitutional, that provided Mr Berlusconi with immunity from prosecution.