It’s more comical than scary: SYRIZA’s line of defense in favor of Nikos Pappas, convicted by the Special Court, is that everything he did was in the public interest. He did not want to control the media landscape of the country with his unconstitutional methods, this is malicious propaganda, he wanted to raise money for the state treasury, and we misunderstood him! Today, the despotic and insufferable Pavlos Polakis posts images and names of journalists and judges on Facebook with a characteristic address mark: “If we don’t get rid of them, next time everything will be different!” . The narrative is automatically intercepted as SYRIZA solemnly contradicts itself: since the Nikos Pappas faction did not seek to silence and manipulate journalists, why is the digital avenger now messing with them with capital letters and uneconomical exclamation points? Since the Pope’s intent was to secure legitimacy on television, why would his running mate fantasize about the purge in rage? How do good intentions fit in with fascist prescriptions?

The words of Pavlos Polakis do not matter even when they expose his party (after all, the latter exposes itself beautifully). Polakis is a popular and persistently aggressive troll with institutional abilities, he is not a politician in the usual sense of the word. Only the frivolous take it seriously. He can work like a Cerberus SYRIZA, but he is a Cerberus of a conditioner and a short leash. His wild intemperance is a small game given to him to keep him occupied, while the adults shape the events to which he then adapts, willingly or unwittingly, so that he does not lose his big game, namely status and fame. Meanwhile, one phone call from Alexis Tsipras is enough for him to get down to business in his shamelessly and shamelessly childish way; it’s why the phone doesn’t ring more often, why Alexis Tsipras finds political use in exhibitors. the stormy spirit of which in the past has repeatedly dragged the country into socially dangerous situations such as civil war. Indeed, when Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA look to the future, do they see the painted face of Polakis on it?

Polarization is a vital element of SYRIZA, but also a key component of anti-SYRIZA. Citizens who have turned their backs on the faction, even if they do not agree with it politically, have largely matured in areas where the faction is still thriving, and indeed very bitter milk. But most of all, these citizens have a memory: they remember that the culture of ostentatious anti-establishmentism has been tried, failed, and failed; they remember that fantasies about the gallows, “traitor Germans” and dark conspiracies gave a few many, many. they filmed dances under the Constitution and nothing more, they remember what it was like when relatives, friends, colleagues and neighbors fought furiously over politics, when banks closed, Europe took pity on us, and the country flirted with trouble every day. Polarism is essentially akism: a fictitious method of seduction, a pretentious tactic of populism; whatever it brings to the jaded, it is outdated, as are those who still support it. But it retains the ability to contaminate, spread, and repel all that is good in its path. To get out of her rut, SYRIZA must amputate a limb, better a finger now than a hand later.