{"id":10634,"date":"2012-03-11T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thessalika-nea.gr\/wordpress\/?p=10634"},"modified":"2012-03-11T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T12:57:00","slug":"clothes-washed-together-and-became-pink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thessalika-nea.gr\/?p=10634","title":{"rendered":"Clothes washed together and became… pink!"},"content":{"rendered":"

   by professor Giorgos Piperopoulos<\/strong>
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Published in the Greek blogs (in Greek rext) 10-11\/ March\/ 2012<\/b><\/p>\n

\n   Searching for a title for this article I suddenly recalled the verse from the song of my compatriote Giannis Miliokas (first performance Giannis Miliokas-Afrodite Manou and then Alexiou-Parios) and I am using it without asking his permission:<\/div>\n

 “… How you changed, how I changed \/ my dreams red \/ my dreams white\/ clothes washed together and turned<\/i><\/b> <\/i><\/b>pink …” <\/i><\/b>
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\n   I suggested the other day in my article posted on the Greek blogs under the title “the words lost their meanings”<\/b>where, as a Nation and a people,  “our leaders” as heads of PASOK and ND have brought us basing their \u201csupposed\u201d ideological rivalries the former on being \u201cprogressive\u201d and the latter on being \u201cconservative”.  In bringing us to the current status quo the two major leading political parties had the full, unofficial but practical and real help, engulfing public opinion in ideological saturation on almost a 24-hour basis, of the “supposedly” self-governed and independent Greek Media (press, television, radio). PASOK and ND were thus able to govern us for 38 consecutive years (1974-2012) after the fall of the Junta.
   The responsibilities for today\u2019s problems, however, can not and should not be exhausted by assigning them exclusively to the leaders of the bipartisan political system who headed PASOK and ND, but must eventually be relegated and proportionately allocated to the thousands of \u201cgreen\u201d and \u201cblue\u201d party cohorts who staffed:
   First, the legislative \u201cestate\u201d where with the devastating one-party majorities in Parliament they have voted and passed laws that brought us as a nation and people while, at the same time, they also passed legislation that abdicated themselves of any and all responsibility for intentional or unintentional and even catastrophic\u2026\u201cwrongdoing\u201d,
   Second, the Executive \u201cestate\u201d where by the thousands they were enthroned to seats of power, carrying immense salaries and golden social status, by their party leaders under the absolute authority provided by the Single-Party governments during the last 38 years.
    I am publishing my thought today, after the PSI has been successful and a potentially painful \u201ccredit event\u201d and a catastrophic \u201cdisorderly default\u201d seems to have been averted by Greece FOR THE TIME BEING because the surrounding psychological atmosphere is starting to thicken with references to scenarios of continued \u201cCOALITION GOVERNMENT\u201d between the current PASOK Government with 40 Ministers and the participation of New Democracy with 6 Ministers even if in the forthcoming (?) national elections New Democracy emerges as the Leading party and PASOK as the opposition party (which, if all go as currently seen, will be headed by Professor Venizelos who is now serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Czar of National Economic Ministry). 
\n<\/a>    Is such a scenario ABSURD?
    Not necessarily, since for the last three and during the next two months until May we do have an unbelievably and admirably peaceful and exceedingly well cooperating Coalition Government of PASOK – ND (without the participation of the LAOS party which last month withdrew from the three-party Coalition Government under Dr Loukas Papadimos.) 
\n    Why should the scenario of continuing the current PASOK \u2013 ND Coalition Government be considered improbable, unlikely or even \u201cextraterrestrial\u201d and alien when already the PASOK Vice Chairman and Deputy Prime Minister Mr Pangalos and the ND Vice Chairman and Minister of Defence in the current Coalition Government Mr Avramopoulos and along with them a number of distinguished MPs in both Parties make public statements on the usefulness and the necessity \u201cfor National and Economic Salvation\u201d for the continuation of the current \u201cGreen & Blue\u201d and post election \u201cBlue & Green\u201d Coalition Government?…
    In Greece today living with the \u201cGreen & Blue\u201d Coalition Government which  incessantly reduces wages,
\n<\/a> pensions and allowances not only \u201cwords have lost their meanings\u201d but obviously and undeniably the “ideologies” of the two governing political Parties which have been in power for the last 38 years have also lost their meanings, BUT:
\n    PASOK socialists and New Democracy conservatives HAVE NOT LOST the control of power; their leading party figures have not lost their governing thrones and neither have the few thousands of their \u201ccronies\u201d lost their their golden seats with lavish salaries and grandiose social status!
\n     And in 2012 they go on governing without checks of their intentional or unintentional wrongdoings and catastrophic for the Nation and the Greeks decisions and remain\u2026Unpunished!
\n     UNPUNISHED (especially if the Coalition Government is extended into the future) will remain all those who having democratically been elected to power during the last 38 years have lead us down the road of economic, social, moral, and political bankruptcy, loss of national dignity, national sovereignty and national wealth, UNLESS, when and if we called to cast our ballot in May we:<\/p>\n

REALIZE where NOW we, our children and grandchildren STAND,WHO brought us here and go on remaining UNPUNISHED, andWhat will be our individual, group, or collective future, <\/p>\n

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IF we DO NOT decide to send the \u201cGreen & Blue\u201d bipartisanship party System where it deserves to be sent!…
\n     Otherwise we should STOP blaming the Europeans Leaders, the Financial \u201cMarkets\u201d and the 3 International Credit Ratings Institutions (Moody\u2019s, Standard & Poor, Fitch) for our woes and finally start blaming ourselves and our inability to see that if we do not put an absolute and irrevocable END to the TWO Party System or their \u201cCoalition\u201d then “all those who lived well will continue living even better but we who were convinced by our Leaders, the Bankers and our Media to think that we were living well…are finished!..”<\/b><\/div>\n

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\n   by professor Giorgos Piperopoulos<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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