The Peoples' Socialist Republic of Greece

It is not a good time for Greece. Really. It seems an everlasting reality that a few vociferous and disgruntled - adolescent sounding voices, always get the upper hand in Greece -- and send the whole country down the drain. 

 The two major parties are no longer major and many of the politicos are out of a billet. So far so good.

Unfortunately however, Greece's newly reshuffled parliament offers little else to write good things home about, as, what the majors lost the neo nationalists of Golden Dawn and the soft-core soviets, Syriza, won.

The good thing about the former is their investment in accompanying little old ladies across the street and to the bank & back, so no harm comes to them. So far so good. It's when they start banging emigrants & left wing extremists on the head that things get out of hand. And as this happens quite often things are out of hand already. As they themselves content, "if I have to choose between democracy and my country, I will choose my country."

On the other hand, Syriza, led by Mr Tsipras was asked to form a government -- whereupon Mr Tsipras promptly went public to announce that the new government (should any arise) will abolish planned public sector cuts, reign in controls on "the bankers", check them out for having received Euro 200m (in which country?), return certain taxes, provide support to SMEs (what else is new), preserve the public sector payroll, and turn its back to all austerity plans...

Put differently, Mr Tsipras is heralding the Peoples Socialist Democratic Republic of Greece, in other words, he is promising to uphold and protect all of what Greeks apparently voted against! Ineffective, arrogant, and inefficient Public Sector, the authoritarian Administration -- the kick-backs as well perhaps?
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Of course what he really wants is elections again -- and throws the bait to civil servants who are presently unsure of themselves as there is a major assessment centre scheduled to appraise all Greek Civil Service employees.

It is sad that no-one took any time to pay more than lip service to what Mr Tsipras said, as if it was all a song and journalists just hummed along. No one challenged what he said, and the bullshit went down beautifully. Maybe the hot weather helped numb people's wit. 


Similarly, Greece's media, hardly Europe's finest by any stretch of the imagination, seem to have hummed along as well -- or maybe they take bullshit for granted coming from politicians.


Or is it that there is difficulty sorting wheat from the chaff any more in Greece?