{"id":1036,"date":"2026-04-16T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:45:00","slug":"opposition-to-the-small-because-they-dont-make-it-in-the-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1036","title":{"rendered":"Opposition to the small because they don&#8217;t make it in the big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<html><body><\/p>\n<p>The <b>opposition<\/b>, instead of making meaningful and cogent criticism, spends all its energies on 20-year-old affairs.<\/p>\n<p>opposition (h) 1. preoccupation with issues of <b>secondary importance<\/b> leading to an inability to understand the important &#8220;I propose we stop the opposition and finally make serious proposals on serious issues&#8221; 2. Inability to achieve goals, <b>inadequacy<\/b> &#8220;I&#8217;m sure with all these signings we&#8217;ll be able to overcome the opposition that&#8217;s plaguing us&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Instead of proposing solutions, they deal with 20-year-old cases<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b>Possibly (and thanks to<b> Donald Trump)<\/b> we are at the beginning of a huge global crisis whose epicenter is not too far from our country. <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, we as a country have perennial (and intergovernmental) problems that are entirely our own. And the opposition, instead of dealing with all of the above, instead of proposing solutions or <b>ways defence <\/b>that are relevant to reality, instead of making meaningful and convincing <b>criticism<\/b>, seems to be spending all its energies on 20-year old assumptions.<\/p>\n<p>I acknowledge that this is much easier than <b>serious proposals and meaningful criticism,<\/b> but it is bound to keep the opposition&#8217;s ratings well away from those of the government. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, if the opposition were allowed to make <b>serious proposals<\/b> and substantive criticism, they wouldn&#8217;t be so far behind in the <b>polls<\/b>. It seems that people don&#8217;t bother with the small stuff by choice, they bother with the small stuff because they don&#8217;t make it to the big stuff.<\/p>\n<h3><b>They don&#8217;t get it<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b>I see that <b>New Left<\/b> in a statement on <b>Hungarian elections<\/b> says that &#8220;the fall of Orb\u00e1n is not enough&#8221; and that &#8220;what is still needed is a left-wing and progressive alternative&#8221;. Probably the comrades didn&#8217;t get it, but <b>Hungarians<\/b> also voted against <b>Russian influence.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h3><b><\/b><b>They didn&#8217;t even believe the news about little Maria<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b>Because some question the reports accusing Greece of <b>push backs,<\/b>let me remind you that these are the same <b>saccharists<\/b> who went so far as to question the <b>tragic death of little Maria<\/b> of Evros under the funny pretext of the girl&#8217;s non-existence.<\/p>\n<h3><b>their job<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b>The President of the <b>United States<\/b> has quite rightly stated that he will not allow <b>Iran<\/b> to bully the planet. That is the job of the US government and its friends in <b>Russia<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opposition, instead of making meaningful and convincing criticism, spends all its energies on 20-year affairs.<br \/>\nopposition (the) 1. the preoccupation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}