With the country in danger or entering new downward spiral, the people and entire productive sector in turmoil, the government doesn’t have many options left. All it has left is to go on the offensive.

That is what they have been doing for years and what they are good at. Additionally, Greek society thrives on accusations and conspiracies. There are many more who are willing to listen to harsh and aggressive words. Their fans in Greece are hatred and cruelty.

Everything that happened last week, the way the government handled the television licensing affairs in Parliament and their arguments do not leave many doubts about what comes next.

They will carry on by creating enemies and mechanisms of psychological violence, by using Justice, tax authorities as tools, by using the willing “guns” of yellow journalism they will attempt to address their problems and inability to perform any productive and creative work.

By knocking down, closing and destroying they will attempt to overcome the huge doubts and dramatic decline of their influence on Greek society, as it is starting to reflect in the opinion polls. Anyone trying to give a rational explanation of their behavior is making a mistake. After all, politics is an entirely irrational affair.

Greek and world history are full of catastrophic episodes and unrestrained attitudes, without care or understanding of the circumstances. The stance of the government was totally irrational from the start. Where can one start from the over twelve months of this government in power?

The appointment of Yanis Varoufakis at the Ministry of Finances; the long and clearly fruitless negotiation; the referendum and denying its result, the painful agreement reached at the final moment under the threat of a Grexit; the elections that followed straight after; repeating the same mistake in September during the formation of the new government; wasting so many months after the previous wholly problematic experience or making an obviously wrong choice in the pension reform, which has cause everyone to take to the streets?

Let us not have any doubts about what will come next. There will be, in all certainty, unhappy days to come.

Antonis Karakousis

Originally published in the Sunday print edition