The differentiating characteristic of the “first-ever Government of the Left” is that it has surpassed by far any previous Government in making a mess of everything, both in words and action. An excellent example is the refugee problem, for which the entire Europe is recognising us, as mess-masters of the Grand-Cross.
The overture was jolly: “Greece welcomes the unfortunate”. The slave traders heard it and with the exaggerated philanthropy that distinguishes them, in the human caravans that they send us, they took gentle care to package enough drowned, so that our crying may not be in vain.
Subsequent Acts included Ministerial pronouncements that the refugee wave was a great source of profit for the eastern Aegean islands, which should be happy about it. The same lips pronounced, a little later the refugees as happily enjoying the sun on the benches of central Athens squares. Then we had the Prime Minister bursting that how on earth could Greece guard its eastern frontier, which was unmarked since it . . . . . was a sea.
The last episode was the blocking of our main rail line to the rest of Europe, by thousands of refugees, who were refused entry into FYROM, “solved” after weeks of procrastination by government packing them in buses to the Olympic Games centre for tae kwo do on the seashore of Athens. Mind you the Centre could take them only for a week as some international games were scheduled a long time ago. Now we hear the heart-beat of the Government between Defense Minister Kammenos and Minister for Immigration Mouzalas. The latter, being the only one in the Government that has ever worked in his life, knows a thing or two about programming and is at loss with the “efficiency” and “camaraderie” of his colleagues, who when they are not tripping him over they rejoice in the stalemates he faces as a result of their own shortcomings.
“Birds of a feather flock together”. The government and the “other” hooded mess-makers match so well, that the former legislate for the welfare of those imprisoned among the latter, while through their proverbial gaffes and mistakes fail to provide for the welfare of rest of the Greek people.
It is time Mr. Tsipras realises that with mess-makers you can commandeer schools[1] but you cannot govern a Country. If he has the qualities of leadership that some grant him, he should have understood a long time ago that the replacement of mess-makers with experienced professionals (not necessarily politicians), who can produce real work is a demand of the Nation. They are the only ones that can help him honour his signature to Europe.
Abraham Lincoln, a great man as well as a politician had said: You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
A leader’s duty, Mr. Tsipras, is to understand such simple truths and escape from party shackles.
By Maximos
[1] A reference to his main achievement as an educational activist
