Editorial: Delusions, passions, and errors

It is widely known that Mr. Tsipras, his party, and the Left in general did not have experience in governance.

It was limited to local government but that was obviously not enough to offer comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the complexity of the job.

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The only notable contact with true management of the problems of the country was fleeting with the Tzannetakis government in 1989 which continued as an ecumenical government under Xenophon Zolotas in the beginning of 1990.

That government which lasted only a few months offered little as it was formed in conditions of polarisation and division.

By some accounts participation in the government under those conditions aggravated rather than calmed the conspiratorial theories that left-wing parties traditionally embraced regarding the governance of the country.

In the case of Mr. Tsipras' government which came to power in 2015 in the midst of a great economic crisis things were worse because the particular left-wing factions had been built on myths and had simplistic approaches to problems.

Most in Mr. Tsipras' inner circle thought things were simple. Power alone sufficed and the emergence of left-wing managers it was believed could bring an economic spring and restore society's lost prosperity.

That simplistic approach emanated from a false view of institutions.

They believed that institutions were made to serve bourgeois political forces and their supposedly pernicious designs.

Based on this great delusion the government from the start used institutions as a means to achieve its ends.

That is why the government issued endless denials in the first...