The trust vacuum demands a political solution

Visitors stitchery to watch the alteration of the defender astatine the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, situated successful beforehand of the Greek Parliament, anterior to a vote connected an amendment banning protests and immoderate alterations successful the area, successful Athens, connected October 22, 2025.

It is unusual that though Greek society is impressively homogenous, and though the large κοινωνικά and governmental questions that had occupied the state since its constitution person been solved, we ne'er miss an accidental to combat with each other. The monarchy was abolished; the connection question was solved; aged ideological differences are present insignificant; the state is surviving done the longest play of governmental stability successful its history; the treatment connected Church-State relations interests very few; the wounds of the Civil War are mostly healed.

So, 1 mightiness ask, why is there ever so overmuch tension successful our politics? However, if we analyse the galore problems that our society faces, and the way that our governmental forces negociate them, the question is overturned: however is there adjacent the slightest statement when distrust is so prevalent successful society? There we spot however fertile the crushed is for demagogues who, either due to the fact that they can’t bash otherwise, oregon done sheer cynicism, question to shingle trust successful politics, successful institutions – successful ideology itself – adjacent further. 

Misinformation and propaganda successful a fragmented quality scenery promote part arsenic well arsenic despair

Why such a deficiency of trust, though? Why bash we tend towards part so easily? The reasons are galore and they tally done our history, opening with the tradition whereby our governmental leaders question to people points by destroying each other. This shaped a civilization of conflict, a mentality successful which compromise and statement adjacent surrender oregon betrayal. This applies some to home authorities and diplomacy, arsenic tension successful 1 sphere inflames passions successful the other.

Furthermore, past periods of large polarization (the National Schism successful 1915-22, the 1947-49 Civil War, the dictatorship successful 1967-74) are dragged into existent debates whenever someone wants to look much “patriotic” oregon much “democratic,” oregon whatever, than the rest. The inability to scope statement successful authorities reflects (and worsens) the deficiency of trust betwixt citizens. The citizens observe and justice the politicians, and astatine the aforesaid clip they indispensable woody with chronic corruption, with an incompetent and malevolent state, with deprivation (either existent oregon successful examination with others; due to the fact that of repeated crises and an endemic deficiency of opportunities), and widening inequalities successful a society which, admittedly, displayed little inequality than galore others. Misinformation and propaganda successful a fragmented quality scenery promote part arsenic well arsenic despair, starring to passionate struggle betwixt fewer players arsenic galore citizens withdraw from authorities and abstain from elections. 

We enactment these points erstwhile again not arsenic a lament but to suggest that the governmental forces that negociate to animate religion successful ideology are the ones that will interruption the vicious rhythm that feeds distrust and cynicism. Citizens request to spot substantial victories against corruption, they indispensable beryllium fixed opportunities to enactment successful civilian society (from schoolhouse to aged age). Politicians ought to present effectual governmental and judicial reforms, to reenforce institutions (including the autarkic authorities whose authorization has been shaken lately).

It indispensable beryllium wide that corruption will not beryllium tolerated, that transgressors will beryllium punished, that governments and the state person the champion interests of citizens astatine bosom (so that the citizens will not expect everything from “their own” party). When it appears that the polity places citizens – each citizens – astatine the halfway of politics, then they, too, will lend to the effort, they will judge successful something. The authorities has the request and the accidental to transportation much citizens that it will work towards this. In immoderate case, this large vacuum needs to beryllium filled.