{"id":14521,"date":"2012-11-28T09:45:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T14:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopoliticalmonitor.com\/greek-politics-a-whos-who-of-chaos-and-exhaustion-4756\/"},"modified":"2018-05-18T09:12:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T13:12:49","slug":"greek-politics-a-whos-who-of-chaos-and-exhaustion-4756","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geopoliticalmonitor.com\/greek-politics-a-whos-who-of-chaos-and-exhaustion-4756\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Politics: A Who\u2019s-Who of Chaos and Exhaustion"},"content":{"rendered":"
As the days go by, the current chaos in\u00a0Greece<\/a>\u00a0is rendered more and more perplexing and unwieldy, so much so that one might assume that this country likes to put itself into a permanent submissive position of misery. It\u2019s like the hypocrisy of past generations is somehow infused into people\u2019s DNA.<\/p>\n First of all, when it comes to\u00a0Greek citizens<\/a>, they often declare that they are conscientious, hardworking, inherently democratic people who honor the ancient legacies of Plato, Aristotle and the other philosophers of Antiquity. What is less readily admitted however, is that Greeks are primarily responsible for their long downfall and boundless international humiliation. It\u2019s all because of a corruption so deep that it could not be isolated in the political field but rather had to be treated as a holistic whole; one that touches every aspect of everyday personal and social life.<\/p>\n Even now that bankruptcy is a reality that we all experience- though one that no one dared to officially announce-\u00a0Greek leaders<\/a>\u00a0remain free, beneficiaries of the people\u2019s endless tolerance, to arrange lives as they wish by playing Russian roulette in the salons of the Troika. They then turn back to the people, sometimes with bombastic nationalistic elations for the salvation of the country, and other times hiding their tail between their legs.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, this is just one side of the coin, as the country\u2019s political system seems equally unable to escape its voracious self. To begin with, the ruling New Democracy (ND) party appears as a manifestation of a center-right political force, though one that struggles to fight its own conservative nature. Before winning the elections, ND intensively opposed the memorandum and its harsh terms, accusing the ruling party PASOK (Panhellenic Socialist Movement) of betraying national sovereignty. Today, New Democracy ironically tries to coexist and maintain unity in a fragile coalition with its greatest rival, PASOK, and the alternative Europeanist left-wing party of Dimokratiki Aristera (DIM.AR.), in order to guarantee the extension of the same measures that it formerly opposed.<\/p>\n In his recent interview for the leading Greek business magazine Ependytis<\/em>, professor Anis Bajrektarevic remarked: \u201c\u2026Europe departed from the world of work\u2026the EU has helplessly lost its political \u2018left\u2019\u2026\u201d (\u0395\u03c0\u03b5\u03bd\u03b4\u03c5\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2<\/a>, 11 November 2012, page 13).<\/p>\n