Quote from: Fatman3001 on February 11, 2015, 04:25:46 AM

Quote from: billyjoeallen on February 11, 2015, 02:00:50 AM

Quote from: julian071 on February 10, 2015, 10:44:00 PM

Also, to the original poster, instead of your diminutive attitude to 'the lefties', how about acknowledging that the 'righties' that created this mess in the first place are finally displaced from power. Finally there's a change of course for the better.

How do you figure that? "Righties" are usually recognized as Nationalists, most of whom never wanted an EU in the first place. For them, it was an issue of national sovereignty.

Most European countries don't have two-party systems. The right are often liberals (not what americans call liberals), social liberals, conservatives or christian conservatives. And of course some brown populist party who hates immigrants and muslims, and loves american cars and Elvis and get caught pretending to be Hitler in the mirror.

I am guessing Julian is pointing to the liberal-conservative-christian-democrats New Democracy. However it seems like the government of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement was just as guilty at producing misleading statistics to hide overspending. Which is why people see Syriza as an alternative. And it seems like Syriza understands that it doesn't have a radical socialist mandate, but rather a moderate socialist mandate as outsiders of the "corrupt" political system and as a voice for a better deal for Greece as a part of the EU.