They told us what we were telling them

Reading main opposition SYRIZA's review of what happened in the first part of its four-and-a-half years in power, one cannot help but think: "Are you kidding? You're telling us now what we were telling you then and you scorned us."

I am of the opinion that the whole experience of the previous administration's first term was catastrophic but inevitable, perhaps even "necessary." Were it not for the expensive lesson on the chimera that deflated like a balloon, we would still be living in our own delusions as a people. We would still be looking for magical and exotic solutions in the Far East, we would believe we could blackmail Europeans into writing off our debt, and so on.

Not that there is not still a significant part of the Greek population that believes all that - on the contrary. But the great majority realized that, in today's geopolitical, capitalist world...

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