Politics, they say, is practiced through speech.

And they are right in this, in part, because the springboard that rolls along the rails of core politics is public discourse. The discourse of persuasion and the exchange of ideas based on arguments and evidence.

Written by Krynio Kalogeridou

These latter constitute language as the main means of conquering power. However, it is not enough for its conquest. And rightly so, because the exercise of power is not based on multi-layered discourse, but on its application, which transforms theory, political philosophy and rhetoric, into action.

In political decisions that turn vision into action, at the level of social cohesion and foreign policy. At the level of supporting and mobilising citizens to leave – together with the authorities – the imprint of their participation in the fruit tree of democracy.

This “together with power” is of course checked nowadays, because power is also exercised by opposition centres of power, which – with the motto “change” – exert subdue influence as leaders-feeders of foreign powers, stirring up all kinds of “movements” and “popular struggles”, aiming at social destabilization and changing correlations in the political and geopolitical life of Greece…

The change of correlations that will be adapted not only to the ideological characteristics of the political leader (identity, psychological, emotional and moral traits), but also to his/her communication and operational ability, common sense of justice, emotional and moral intelligence and ability to make critical decisions under pressure in times of responsibility.

At times that require self-awareness, self-restraint, inspiration, strategic intelligence, drivenness, clear orientation for the future and decisiveness in decision-making, if the phone is to… ring at 3:00 a.m. on crisis issues (and not only) in the ever-changing geopolitical and economic scene outside the borders of the homeland.

And because we live in… “interesting times”, to recall a Chinese proverb about the perilousness of our times, it is good to think and act politically as Primaries and not as Primaries facing the consequences of their choice after the fact.

An impulsive choice, most likely, that sees the “tree” of individual needs to satisfy the hormones of revenge rather than the forest of Hellenism’s national interests. This explains the vote of confidence (poll-wise) in “Sirens” of the past who practiced politics on… “the head of the cassidary” and left with impunity, leaving behind a century of mortgage loans…

This explains the vote of confidence in self-appointed saviors or popular judges limiting troupe, who instrumentalize politics as a means of psychotherapy for healing their traumatic grief, which they previously reduced to a battering ram in the absence of their good and gullible followers, with the aim of their personal advancement in the lucrative field of political careers.

It is a case where the management of grief is transformed into a public spectacle and a tool of political or social survival, altering the essence of political responsibility and the process of grief, once pain loses its sanctity.

It turns into a toxic web, which – instead of operating on the basis of collective interest and rationality – is motivated by the passion for revenge and the rage to conquer power for its own benefit, with blurred ends that endanger our acquisitions at the geopolitical, energy, economic and national levels…

It is the case where mourning becomes a political weapon. It becomes a tool of political exploitation in the name of the loss of human lives. It becomes an object of partisan pursuit, sometimes with a flavour of foreign influence hiding promises of geopolitical “protection”…

But when there is a lack of empathy and political expediency on the part of the “transmitter” politician or feudal politician, then there is a real danger of transmitting his personal empathy to society, instilling in it the germ of questioning the institutions (with the main one being that of Justice), which are the pillars of Democracy.

This has happened and we have reached – in the last three years – the limits of social division and moral fatigue of society, with obvious signs of political decline. Political decadence that breeds behind-the-scenes subversion and emissions of “toxic waste” or, at least, exchanges of accusations with protagonistsparty leaders of the opposition.

Leaders and leaders who are fighting for their political survival or advancement from within, displaying unprecedented fury against prime minister, to such an extent that it portends a self-reliant third term, since the group fire will naturally result in the cocks of Mitsotakis being born at the polls

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