Archive note: This text comes from the old archive of Nomika Epilekta and is preserved with care for historical and informational reading.

If politics is an art, in Greece there are no craftsmen of politics, as appears from the recurring statements of all those who impersonate politicians, both government and opposition, and from their erratic, utopian, foolish, and incoherent acts and omissions, both over time and in the face of the crisis.

Because almost all active politicians practice no other profession, we have professional politicians who pursue their professional and personal recognition while caring very little about the science and art of politics, which they essentially and completely ignore, and about citizens and the progress of the country.

It has rightly been pointed out by many that professional politicians mainly take care to remain on the political stage and, specifically, in publicity and current affairs, seeking directly and indirectly to promote their close and more distant relatives and, secondarily, their faithful and devoted followers. Thus, the sons, daughters, nephews, spouses, and other intimates of career politicians are promoted together with the party-loyal and appear as politicians, while in reality they have no relation to politics and do not possess the corresponding capacity or skills.

Thus the well-known politicians are not able to propose and pursue solutions for confronting and escaping the crisis, which is now a deeply rooted social and national crisis, spreading through all classes and throughout society and tending to become incurable.

Instead of producing politics by proposing and pursuing solutions on the basis of political, flexible plans and calculated moves within whatever political ideology they have, politicians try to be pleasing to the many by populist talk, flattery, exaggeration, noise, and lies. Consequently, one of the much-promoted by the media and professionally recognized technocrats correctly accused politicians as a whole of being fools and suffering from political dementia [P. Gennimatas, in his morning statement of 27.06.2011 on the television station Mega], identifying the consequences of the total absence of true politics.

Of course, politicians do not differ from citizens, but they possess to the highest degree all the defects of the average citizen and rarely any of his virtues. This follows from the result of the nonexistent political action of politicians, who exclude, through their methods and their specific and known acts, any effort to renew their ranks. The result of the failure to renew politicians with citizens able to produce politics is that lawyers, doctors, journalists, engineers, every kind of professional trade unionist, and heirs without the abilities and gifts of a talented politician are mainly elevated to political status.

If politics were being produced by the politicians allied in parties, the people, and every citizen, would certainly be able to follow social and political developments and decide, judging the specific policy politically, learning and participating in public affairs with the power of knowledge, opinion, and judgment.

In the absence of the production of politics, the citizen is bewildered. He has lost his balance and orientation and cannot judge, decide, or act; instead he behaves like the politicians, erratically, indecisively, spasmodically, sometimes with anger and sometimes with disappointment, literally manipulated and having lost all trust and respect for institutions. Thus he easily becomes a victim of misinformation and of extreme statements by various, mainly extremist, eccentric, and groundless people, tending to adopt and follow extreme solutions and to behave extremely and, as always, superficially.

Modern society needs the immediate production of true politics by real and talented politicians, because without politics there will be no intelligent, immediate, and liberating solutions, nor social and national progress.