Nikos Karanikas has been around for fourteen generations, Alexis Tsipras and his new promises.

Nikos Karanikas commented in a Facebook post on the former prime minister’s new promises for free public transportation in Attica and Thessaloniki. A promise he himself estimated would cost just… 200 million euros, and which came after Androulakis’s promise of free public transportation for young people up to 24 years old.

We can all see that ELAS and PASOK have launched a competition to see who can promise the most, without, of course, being able to deliver on them, reminiscent of the infamous Thessaloniki Programs.

Karanikas’ response

This is what Nikos Karanikas saw, and he commented that the demagoguery has begun; specifically regarding Alexis Tsipras, he said that he has started beating the…drums, recalling the phrase the former prime minister once said that he would beat the drums and the markets would dance.

Nikos Karanikas, who was once a strategic advisor to the former prime minister, commented that Alexis Tsipras is out of touch and arrogant, since, as he explains, if he finds the money to fulfill his promise, citizens of Lamia or Grevena will be paying for the supposedly free transportation to Attica and Thessaloniki through the high taxes he will impose.

Obviously, this doesn’t make sense. Especially when he says he’ll raise taxes on specific groups of citizens.

At the same time, Nikos Karanikas emphasizes that with this promise, Alexis Tsipras shows how out of touch he is with society and that he behaves like an arrogant, feudal lord, and demagogue. After all, as he writes, citizens demand better public transportation—not free transportation for a select few, paid for by others’ taxes—as this might actually make public transportation even worse.

And he concludes by saying that society’s reasonable demands and the country’s problems cannot be solved by the luminaries of Alexis Tsipras and the opportunists he has gathered around him to make it easier to pander to the masses. 

In fact, in a comment below the post, Nikos Karanikas adds that it is astonishing how comfortably ELAS of Alexis Tsipras and calls them dangerous and ruthless.

Alexis Tsipras has found his match—someone who thinks society is gullible and forgets easily.

Here is the relevant post: