Jeremy Kyle, a controversial chat show host is perhaps the most hated man in Britain. He presents High Stakes, the first UK quiz format to allow the quizmaster to advise contestants on answers. If Jeremy gets it wrong, it could lead someone losing up to half a million pounds.
Taking up the advice of a public figure in a crucial moment that results loosing everything could hunt one’s life forever. What if they had decided differently? And what about the guy who talked them into it? Obviously, the person urging towards a fault decision becomes the escape goat of the players’ feeble personality that took the game seriously in the first place.
Voting for the future of the country, however, is no game whatsoever. May 6 cliffhanger polls in Greece created more problems than those attempted to solve. Well, tell that to the ND leader Antonis Samaras, who kept using snap elections as a mouth freshener, each time he was up and close with citizens who suffered by the austerity cuts.
Taking up the advice of a public figure in a crucial moment that results loosing everything could hunt one’s life forever. What if they had decided differently? And what about the guy who talked them into it? Obviously, the person urging towards a fault decision becomes the escape goat of the players’ feeble personality that took the game seriously in the first place.
Voting for the future of the country, however, is no game whatsoever. May 6 cliffhanger polls in Greece created more problems than those attempted to solve. Well, tell that to the ND leader Antonis Samaras, who kept using snap elections as a mouth freshener, each time he was up and close with citizens who suffered by the austerity cuts.
In the last three days, Alexis Tsipras has been carrying around an exploratory mandate for Greece’s new government, summoning Leftish forces to form a coalition that would offer Greece the first Left government in modern history. Some say that this is just for show, since the only thing he really cares about is to increase his stakes for re-election and maybe capitalize the whole effort on capturing the 50-seat bonus electoral law offers to the first party.
This definitely sounds like a plan by Greece’s youngest party leader, who is working the floor quite effectively, taking advantage of “major parties” numbness. The endgame, however, is a bit more complicated than seducing young Net-Gen voters who have no real opinion about politics or acting as a spitting pot for former PASOK sympathisers who remain justifiably angry.
If this has been a one-night-stand with handsome Alexis, voters should start getting serious about the future. Are they going to take up his promises and advice regarding a left government, or his promotion into a top policy maker will turn to be a really bad decision that would cost the country dearly? Those who feel that they should know Alexis better should read SYRIZA’s programmatic platform and learn how private companies and banks will be nationalized, bank deposits over EUR 200,000 be blocked “to finance growth” and how private tertiary education institutions should be closed down.
June re-election is going to be a “Greek drama”; some say a “tragedy”. A well-known columnist wrote yesterday that we should be left alone to democratically vote ourselves to our deaths. PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos referred to “Greece’s God” to save the country.
Ancient Greek tragedy presents last minute intervention as “deus ex machina”, someone who unexpectedly comes to the rescue. Samaras and Venizelos do not seem willing to step down to welcome a newcomer who could make a difference. In any case, in a month or so, Greece will need much more than that. Citizens should decide for the long term, not based on current personal and national shortcomings.
This is the tough part for Greek voters who in June will participate in their own High Stakes quiz; if they get it wrong, a “sudden death” is also a possibility.
Dr. Demetris KamarasEditor
dailyGreece.net
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