At the time that these lines are being written the election result is not yet known. Everybody can revel in their hopes, until tomorrow evening.
Even the trimmings of the political process, tending to be professionally without a profession, they hope to float in the mud that they sling. Some times though the mud comes back, like a boomerang, covering and dragging them from the old water company’s ditches at the Saronic.
When it is known what goes on in the Agora, from Athens to say Graz, silence is gold – once again.
Let us change the story now. Tomorrow, on Sunday, the people will decide. Unfortunately most will got to vote thinking that have to choose between the lesser of two evils.
At one point voting was the algebraic sum of ideology, party association and candidate choice. These days we are in the era of Denunciatory Democracy. But it takes two to “tango”.
Stavros P. Psycharis
Originally published in the Saturday print edition
