As a people and as far a public opinion goes, we are at least awkward and entirely irresponsible.
Even when it comes to celebrations we do things backwards. We are perhaps the only nation in the world (with the Serbians) who celebrate defeats and catastrophes. Even worse, there are groups, even patriotic associations celebrate the Fall of Constantinople to Mehmed the Conqueror on the 29th of May 1453.
When the State thinks like that, it is natural to influence and affect most of its members – perhaps even the most serious ones. These myths are cultivated and promoted by even then more serious personalities and primarily by political groups – even by politicians who should be more responsible.
Lies and deceits are used against the people by politicians who have power at present and who will hand it over in the end, as modern History teaches us, to other groups of political frauds.
Unfortunately lying and deceiving the people has been a regular occurrence in Greek political history. It should be noted that even the greatest Greek politicians employed deceptive slogans as a main parameter of the political activity. One such example was PASOK, which had people in the streets in the 1980s with funny slogans about the American bases which were always leaving, but ultimately remained…
Another case was during the historic win of the Right in 1956, when ERE received fewer votes, but managed to secure more seats in Parliament thanks to the infamous electoral system of the time.
Perhaps this what the modern luminaries of the new Left have been taught and are dreaming, obviously, of similar electoral reforms.
Stavros P. Psycharis
Originally published in the Sunday print edition
