{"id":2922,"date":"2026-04-28T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:15:00","slug":"the-triumph-of-demagoguery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2922","title":{"rendered":"The triumph of demagoguery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned legal expert <b>Kostas Kourkoulos<\/b> explains and reveals why what is being said yesterday about the decision of the <b>Supreme Court is a &#8220;perversion of reality.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b>First the facts.<\/b>The following had happened in the wiretapping trial<\/b>: <\/p>\n<p>Four people were <b>sentenced <\/b>by the Athens Single-Member Plenary Court <b>to <a href=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.gr\/poines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fatal<\/b> sentences<\/b>, for committing the related crime of interception. <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, by <b>order<\/b> of the same court, the <b>records<\/b> of the conviction were forwarded to <b>prosecutor<\/b>, in order to further examine whether there is evidence of the commission of the <b>crime<\/b> of <b>espionage<\/b> against the country.<\/p>\n<p>The <b>prosecutor<\/b> of the Supreme Court who studied the minutes, apparently, <b>did not find<\/b> such evidence. <\/p>\n<p>He therefore ruled the obvious: that the transmitted minutes <b>did not reveal evidence<\/b> of the commission of the crime of espionage as well. So he compulsorily put the case on file.<\/p>\n<p>After the <b>publication<\/b> of this prosecutorial order, the Internet<\/b> demagogues <b>went on a rampage of unbridled demagoguery. And they are poisoning society with their perversion of reality, using the trick of every <b>bargaining fraudster:<\/b> they project the evidence to be proved as a given (we call it &#8220;taking what is asked for&#8221;). <\/p>\n<p>So, because they are obliged to prove that such evidence exists, but they know it doesn&#8217;t, they engage in a subterfuge: they project it as a given that it does exist! And because society <b>cannot suspect<\/b> that such cynical demagogues exist, it believes the <b>lie<\/b>. And the situation on the <b>Internet<\/b> is in absolute madness. Because demagogues have not only abolished not only the <b>truth-lie<\/b> difference but also the difference between paranoia and formal logic.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, what is happening today on the <b>Internet<\/b> is reminiscent of what <b>Defoe<\/b> said in connection with the insanity of the citizens of London at the time of the 1698 law against the spread of <b>popery<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p><i>The streets of London are full of brave countrymen, determined to fight to the death against the papacy, not knowing whether they are horse or man<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>This is the <b>triumph<\/b> of demagoguery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>*This article was published at <\/b><b>booksjournal.gr<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reputable legal expert Costas Kourkoulos explains and reveals why everything that has been said since yesterday about the decision of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922","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=2922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}