By Olga and Tanya Yeritsidou
With increasing frequency we witness the use of phrases and associated behaviours that are blatantly inconsistent: Tsipras declares himself as ʽuncompromisedʼ as a result of his ʽcompromiseʼ (!); the one and only Mr Meimarakis denounces the third memorandum that he himself voted for as despicable and onerous (!); Mr Theodorakis of the Potami Party rages against self-interest-led politics (!) following his scandalous involvement in the media, and using the basest street language, Mr Leventis labels all those who voted ʽNOʼ as ʽwash-outsʼ and ʽfailuresʼ, turning a blind eye to their own ridicule and objective debasement and exclusion from every post they once held.
This nerve whereby the utterly compromised shows up in your face to tell you that he has resisted; the utterly discredited by his involvement in past scandals party leader to claim that he will restore the country finances that he himself and his clique embezzled and destroyed; the worst and most deeply corrupted and state-fed employee of channel magnates and bank oligarchs to claim that he will clear up corruption and restore meritocracy or work in favor of free market, at the time when he and his bosses prospered on mercantilism, cartels and nepotistic practices, is certainly not accidental.
It is also certainly not accidental that the political system is calling upon the Citizens of this country to reward its own complete and utter and repeated failure in all of its set targets, while the same system gives no quarter to even the slightest of errors, negligence, ignorance or setback on the part of the citizen in his or her relationships with the state, and in general in their involvement in the public sphere and justice system.
In other words, the political system demands from the Citizens to show a success story in the face of formidable and most of the times relentless, paranoid challenges (caused and enforced by the same system), while every government and the political system associated with it, generally demands from the People complete tolerance and leniency towards the system, and continually afford it the luxury of the excuse that they are simply superficial but debonair experimental apprentices as well as the right (which is never given to an underperforming or incompetent minor – all the more so to an unacceptably low-performing employee or businessman who loses his business or his job), to repeat the same errors over and over again indefinitely without fear of the slightest payback, consequence or punishment.
This is going on systematically because the present political system is trying to inculcate into the mind of the People that it will always be the People who will shoulder, put up with, reward and condone the wide-ranging and on-going failure, unscrupulousness, irresponsibility and sheer stupidity / incompetence / and lack of ability of the political circles and the state-fed and promoted so-called businessmen / bankers, etc who are such failures that had we not been funding them to finance their businesses, a.k.a. state gangrenes, that they continuously mismanage, they would have literally died on the streets or in prison. They would have had such a fate not only due to their humongous debts but mainly because of their perennial felonious and antisocial behavior.
It is for this reason that they brought on stage the most bankrupt caricature of this degenerate and debauched remnant of a political aristocracy / plutocrats to unleash an invective against the People as ʽhungry and rabid failuresʼ because with our ʽNOʼ we in fact threatened to cut their financing: by banning the memorandums which are the epitome of mercantilism, cronyism, pillaging of state funds and property and by the audit / legal proceedings, punishment, restitutions and indemnities that will follow, we are in fact threating them that we will get OUR money back.
Why have they pulled on stage the very definition of the political ridicule, the personification of failure in politics that answers to the name of Vasilis Leventis to say all that?
Because they want to show that the cesspool of their own clique has the right to address and reproach the admirable Greek People, on whom his brood and the likes of him depend for their survival, so that it will be the Greek People who will shoulder THEIR failure for all the reasons we have referred to in our previous article.
At this point we come to the coming general elections of September 2015 and the fixed polls to manipulate but mainly to break the morale of the Greek People:
It is not accidental that all of a sudden the whole system started focusing on Leventis, giving him television time (that is not given to other political parties outside parliament), editorials and commentaries in THEIR press, and a hefty 5% of the vote in their polls.
Because they have to show that the pompous little man who has the nerve to call the plundered ex-well-off and productive Greeks as ʽhungry lots who envy the better-offʼ is actually accepted and condoned by the People for his hubris. Which means that we actually endorse Leventisʼ characterizations. This represents an all-out effort by the system to achieve just that because, as we have already stressed, he or she who thinks of his or herself as a failure, disarms him or herself and resigns putting up no resistance or any sort of fight.
But this is certainly no new tactic. It goes back to GAP who called us ʽcorrupt and lazy loafersʼ to Pangalos who has showered us as well as our Revolutionary ancestors in his vile, calling is ʽuseless and counterproductive lotʼ and our ancestors ʽbarefoot stinkersʼ, to the rest of their servile and corrupt nepotistic nomenclature of the politicians and their cliques / partners in crime who have attempted to do the same and hit bottom as a result.
This simply goes to show that all the pre-election scenarios have been scribed by the same power centres who once more are making an effort to make us willingly endorse what they failed to enforce upon us: to cancel out every vestige of critical thought and intelligence to follow sophomoric (in the best of cases), uncouth, jobless and unsuccessful nobodies to our own very end.
But this of course will not happen.
Yet, the issue at hand is what we are to do, how to approach and handle these coming elections and the running parties. And we refer to simple parties and not candidates because there is not going to be a selection cross this time: in these elections every party is simply a sack of pigs.
Since therefore we are not allowed to open the sack and examine each and every pig in it to choose from, we must judge the sack as a whole as to whether it has been successful or unsuccessful as regards the following:
Did this party fulfil its pre-electoral promises or failed miserably in the past?
Did this party manage to avoid getting mixed in scandals, nepotistic processes, opaque wheeling dealing, clientelism, criminal conduct or failed miserably in the past?
Did this party manage to resist a kolotoumba (180 degree change in course) in any issue or failed miserably in the past?
Did this party manage to avoid drowning in debts or have members who embroiled themselves in questionable property holdings or unjustified bank assets / links to the local plutocracy or failed miserably in the past?
Did this party achieve any damage appropriation in favour of the state at any level accruing from mismanagement, fraud, etc committed by state officials of this or older governments or failed miserably in the past?
Did this party achieve to put any power it wielded (union, parliamentary and governmental) to the good of the People, using all its resources, privileges and special powers or failed miserably in the past?
If the answer to any of these questions is ʽit failed miserablyʼ, then this party should be rejected as it is in fact rejected by the People who truly complain that there is no solution, way out or promising choice of a party.
This is the reason why the status of the general elections has been irrevocably demeaned as much due the suspicions about vote rigging as by the ludicrously fixed polls which were so off target from the true result of the Referendum of July 5, 2015.
Also, and apart from the above, what should be done is an on-going demand to offer equal exposure to every single party running in these coming elections and not only to those that the fixed polls choose to project, trumping on every Democratic and Constitutional insurance regarding Equality and the right to elect and be elected.
As a second target, we should address the authorities regarding what is at stake in these elections since, regardless of the outcome, a special foreign envoy lacking political rights in this country will actually control the Greek Prime minister and the total powers of the government (as we shall explain in our coming article on the general elections).
As our third target, we should think what sort of reaction we should have and how this should register during the elections as well as all the above referred to issues. In other words, we should critically and justifiably think:
Will it be a solution to abstain from the elections?
Will it be a solution to vote in these elections?
What else we should do apart from our electoral behavior?
We shall come back to these issues furnishing both historical as well as legal evidence in our pre-announced article tomorrow.
Translation courtesy of Michael T.