They have cast the country into a dungeon, and each blames the other for keeping it in chains. Yet in Greece, the maxim that “one guilty party does not absolve another” remains among the strongest of moral and legal truths.
Nor is Kyriakos Mitsotakis alone responsible for the nation’s decline. Neither is he the principal abuser of that sixteen-year-old schoolboy from Zephyri, from Zografou, from Makrimalli, from Attica and Euboea—the child whose life, this summer once again, will be ravaged by the glowing screens of YouTube and TikTok, while not a single day of rest awaits him on the “azure beaches” advertised by the gravediggers of his vitality: the social-networking platforms of mass stupefaction.
His violators bear many other names—names loud, familiar, and celebrated. And, by a remarkable coincidence, they all reside in the crumbling apartment block of the counterfeit Left.
As the old saying goes, “one spreads the mortar, another the lime.” Such are the pitiful little chieftains and firebrands who preside over its partisan contraptions. Mere political jesters and exhibitionists: Zoe Konstantopoulou, Panagiotis Lafazanis, and Yanis Varoufakis. Yet, of course, “the master builder, too, lifts and sets the great stone.” There stands the emaciated Communist Party of Dimitris Koutsoumpas—a spectral remnant of what was once the authentic people’s KKE. Even it cannot escape culpability, linked as it is not by kinship but by name alone to that historic predecessor.
As for the PASOK faithful, little needs to be said. What could one add? “The village that can be seen needs no guide.” All their lives they have stood with a foot in two boats. For that reason, they remain among the most tragic figures in the entire masquerade of both Stalinist and non-Stalinist Leftism—and among the foremost defendants in the court of public judgment.
And what of the vast, overwhelming majority of Greek citizens, distinguished by one of the defining traits of their common disposition: ABSTENTION from the ballot boxes of deception and the theatrical spectacle of elections? What of them?
They are, in truth, the largest “party” in the country, commanding nearly half the electorate. Their abstention is a conscious political verdict upon the System, and especially upon the counterfeit Left described above. Were they willing, they could, by their votes alone, produce a strong and self-reliant government from the very first round of elections. Yet for years they have chosen not to do so.
What, then, do we propose to them?
Would the dignity of the conscientious citizen be diminished if, just once—and let that once be at the next election—they were to come to the polls and cast a decisive vote?
We say no.
Not only would they lose no face; quite the opposite. They would offer yet another lesson in responsibility, reason, and civic pride. The reasons are many, and every one of them political. In due course—and there is time enough—we shall examine them here calmly, thoroughly, and above all with arguments as solid as bedrock, arguments sustained by the very heart of Reason itself: our own Diotima.