The behavior of our political personnel in the broad sense this week points to people who have completely lost touch with the environment and the larger society. Who refuse to realize that they are acting in a Greece that is sinking deeper and deeper into the mire of corruption and disrespect over time, dragging them down with it. Who ultimately seem incapable of facing their own disgusting creation .
The regime’s politicians and constitutionalists propose, as an antidote to the major moral crisis the country is going through, a revision of the Constitution, and this one, in fact, is truncated, emasculated, lacking, and mutilated , to their own liking. Without repealing Article 86 .
What if bribes “whistle” like hail over the capital? Our political class and constitutionalists endlessly consult over the corpse of the collapsed institutions , promising their Resurrection . They dream that they will continue to judge themselves and attribute them as innocent white doves to society. But really! Have you ever seen Jews promise the Resurrection? Let alone carry it out?
At the same time, our trade union class, to the extent that it was involved in the scandal of the mismanagement of community funds amounting to 73 million , instead of bowing its head and disappearing from the face of the earth until the case is clarified (and whether it is innocent or guilty in society), has taken courage, made statements, allegedly denounced its ” moral lynching ” and demanded that the… rule of law stand by it! Forgetting that the independent Authority for the Laundering of Money from Illegal Criminal Activities , headed by a prosecutor, is par excellence an institution of the rule of law and that it was established by law to protect public and community money and to prosecute suspects when there are clear indications of a violation of the law .
Here, then, moderation and shame have been lost.
The candidates for indictment have turned into censors of public morality, threatening publicly and privately that they will speak out and reveal which ministers are involved in the scandal. While the government spokesman and the ministers of New Democracy , when asked how it is possible for trade union organizations to be funded by ministries, and even by community funds from the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) , given the written warning from the EU not to even think of doing so, bury their faces deep in the sand like an ostrich .
The merged established system of governance of the modernizing New Democracy and the anti-Semitic PASOK either shouts at the union level that there is equality in illegality and “we will not pay for it alone as the Iphigenias of the system ” or at the government level it indifferently whistles lest the storm pass.
Of course it won’t go away, on the contrary, it will intensify .
In this climate, reminiscent of the Lernaean Hydra , from the wiretaps in Tempi , from Tempi to OPEKEPE , from OPEKEPE to GSEE and tomorrow who knows where, personalities who have risen to the top in public life over the last two decades, serving the country from top “key” positions, are being debunked and “expired” every day in live television broadcasts before our eyes. Worthily , as it turns out.
While the top echelons exude immorality, cynicism and insensitivity , political figures who are very close to the decision-making centers have the illusion that the system can, in its current state, overcome this crisis with a philological discussion about… constitutional revision . With a “ fake argument ” about the lack of willingness to agree on the part of the official opposition, which concerns no one.
They think the world is so stupid .
” The fire is burning ” in society in 2026 and the discussion that the government and its constitutional playthings are cultivating is what Venizelos did in the 2001 revision and what Mitsotakis did with Loverdos and Tasoulas with the proposal they submitted in the 2006 revision.
A glance at social media, a walk in a coffee shop, a little conversation with critical social groups will understand that the authentic Greece is now moving into another sphere. That it has already turned the page . That it pretends to follow its political class with interest, in reality it despises it. The place of anger and disappointment is now occupied in the ranks of society by apathy .
Take note, because we are already seeing it everywhere: Women and young people will make the great leaps and the shocking upheavals . They have already quietly taken over the reins of information .
Yesterday they abolished the film critics, trashed their reviews of ” Kapodistrias ” as being biased and hyped the film to around 1 million tickets .
Today they stand in front of their cell phone camera and fearlessly read on TikTok the names of Greek politicians and businessmen with information from the Epstein files.
Living our modern history for the second time after 2010.
Tomorrow they will raise the flag even higher against the corruption that rules the country and will discredit the state-sponsored opinion polls with the cataclysmic increase in voter turnout.
The river swells every day. The ” worthless ” are being trapped, while those with an expiration date are being withdrawn.
Prediction: The place will be filled with squeezed lemon cups soon. The time vault of History has already opened.
MANOLIS KOTTAKIS
