'Sick Conditions': Why Greeks Will Vote for Tsipras

[sysop]

Greeks have spurned the politicians who represent the country's broken system, and many are now following rising star Alexis Tsipras. The radical left-wing politician has pledged to free Greece from painful austerity measures while keeping the euro, but no one knows how he plans to fulfill his promises.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...834141,00.html

[lweba]

Greeks surely see the impending doom of their country both socially and economically. Times like these make people look for miracles or saviours. Greeks are now looking for a messiah! To them right now they care least whether this messiah comes from the left or the right wing of the political spectrum. Once installed soon they will find out that he/she is not a messiah and thats when political upheavals will start to erupt.
The once installed leader's solution and that's the only solution is to hold the world and especially EU members at ransom. This leader should threaten to drop out of the Euro Zone if his?her financial demands which he/she will come out with are not met. It is a known fact that if Greece drops out of the Euro financial community, the repercussions will be far reaching. The big financial nations will in a way though relactantly come in to aid Greece.
Europe will never let Greece become a source or possibly a birth place of anarchists and terror groups in Europe..

[alfredmifsud]

....... a hard place!!! That's the choice facing the Greek electorate.

Tsipras is promising that the EU will continue to throw taxpayers money into a Hellenic bottomless pit. He cannot deliver and is playing poker with his country's future.

How much better it would have been if Papandreou were allowed to subject the bail out agreement to a popular referendum.

In a referendum the vote is between Yes or No. In a general elections there are a lot of No ifs and Yes buts which deliver the sort of instability Greece is living after the election of May 6th.

The end is near!

[alfredmifsud]

It is a known fact that if Greece drops out of the Euro financial community, the repercussions will be far reaching. The big financial nations will in a way though relactantly come in to aid Greece.
Europe will never let Greece become a source or possibly a birth place of anarchists and terror groups in Europe..[/quote]

This is a gratuitous assertion. Greece can hold nobody at ransom. They are too small and insignificant for it. You can take a horse to the water but you cannpot make it drink. The problem with greece is not their Euro membership. It is their fiscal immorality. Unless they seriously address that they should leave the Euro, the sooner the better and the rest of Europe and the world will handle the sad repercussions better than they handled Lehman which was so unexpected and sudden.

Greece departure from the Euro could be anything but sudden. It has been long in coming.