Those actively participating in the election campaigns claim that the people are tired and disappointed, that they cannot endure any more talks and are observing the political arguments from a relative distance.
It is true that the majority of voters saw their expectations decline.
In recent years many believed the anti-bailout version of things and were deceived into thinking that it would be tackled not with their sacrifices, but with the contributions of the few, the rich, or tax evaders alone.
Only they excluded themselves an assumed that by magic they would also be exempt from pay taxes of suffer wage or pension cuts.
However the time came when the delusions collapsed and it was revealed that the anti-bailout rhetoric was incomplete and precarious, unable to meet the demands of the major Greek problem.
They also found out that it only took a few months to reveal the ineffectiveness of the anti-bailout policy, witness unlikely harm caused and reveal the threats capable of literally wiping away the level of prosperity and uproot the entire country.
We also assume that in the current election campaign period this precise anti-bailout deceit is revealed and being understood.
The people now realize that they were deceived, that they believed an idea that could not stand on its own, that was not thought through and was not based on real evidence and information.
Everyone simply realized that by insisting on this version of things they were in danger of losing everything.
Everyone now knows that without stable and guaranteed funding there can be no growth, but also that there is danger of losing wages and pensions.
Of curse they realized that increasing the VAT on the islands, abolishing early retirements or rising the age of retirement are not major issues.
Everyone is now convinced that exiting the crisis requires measures and sacrifices that they understand that without these there can be no future, aside from a national retreat, marginalization and darkness.
This precise realization of the anti-bailout deceit is from where the gloom, disappointment and reservation of voters stems.
This sets the tone in the polls and will ultimately define the electoral behavior of voters.
Antonis Karakousis
