Austerity has only made the situation worse, there was no light at the end of the tunnel
Outside the party’s campaign tent in central Athens, supporters hugged each other and danced in celebration. “It’s like we’ve been born again and finally feel some hope,” said Litsa Zarkada, a government cleaning worker who lost her job. “We were thrown into the street just before we could take our pension. We have been through so much.”
Swingeing spending cuts and soaring unemployment have seen about 3.1 million people, or a third of the population, lose their social security and health insurance. Almost third of Greece’s population lives below the poverty line, while 18% are unable to afford basic food needs.
The party’s victory could encourage other radical anti-austerity parties in southern Europe, including Spain’s Podemos, whose leader Pablo Iglesias told a rally in Valencia: “Hope is coming, fear is fleeing. Syriza, Podemos, we will win.”
The young, the elderly and the already precarious were thrown under the bus all to pay for an economic collapse created by those now promoting Austerity as a cure.
Total lack of financial oversight by all our pathetic governments, the sheer lack of anyone being held responsible and indeed profiting even more than before.
The ever rising income inequality that we have just means that the vast majority has been robbed with the assistance of our governments.
There will be a backlash from the technocrats to protect the financiers that is for sure.
Austerity has been brutal and all that is proposed is an ever strangling control, no relenting in reducing the social safety net we made after the last Great Depression where Europe was thrown into a bloodbath of never seen before proportions.
The wealth is there, we just have to stop throwing it into the hands of the oh so very few that are more than willing to asset strip and pocket the loot, but all too reticent to pay anything back.
Let's see if the technocrats manage to crush a democratic movement, again.