{"id":5250,"date":"2026-05-13T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5250"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:29:00","slug":"populism-and-mud-political-quagmire-until-the-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5250","title":{"rendered":"Populism and mud: political quagmire until the elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anonymity in the social media and the toxicity of the opposition are turning the political scene into a quagmire on the road to the election.<\/p>\n<p>Till the election is held, we will see a lot. The <b>fake photo with Adonis Georgiades<\/b> is a sample of what&#8217;s to come. It&#8217;s not the first, there have been others before with conspiracy theories and fake news, but now it looks like it will go to the extreme.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of deconstructing the government and personally <b>Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/b> is turning into fury and the mud is already falling on the fan since all the plans that had a central slogan<b>&#8220;Mitsotakis should go&#8221;<\/b> have failed, while the respective &#8220;political rivals&#8221; invented or retrieved from the past are unable to form even the conditions of an <b>election derby<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary: the evidence suggests that on the road to the election <b>New Democracy is the only party that can lead the country into the next day<\/b> and whether it achieves self-reliance will be decided by the silent majority rather than the vocal minority.<\/p>\n<p>The anonymity of the Internet and AI technology allow users to produce products and pass them off as real. Besides, until refuted, the cycle of fake news with the help of various <b>bots <\/b>will cause the damage they want to cause.<\/p>\n<p>The worst of course is the <b>reproduction by official media, sites and more, which act as a multiplier in spreading theories and fake news<\/b>. Also, anonymous Internet users can persist in lying for a period of time sufficient to cause damage to persons and entities, politicians and political parties.<\/p>\n<p>But beyond the media, the problem takes on greater dimensions when it also receives political support. <b>The political umbrella over fake news turns into a mud carrier as it happened with the woodchips and the allegedly missing wagons or the theories about murderers.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Not to mention the <b>&#8220;child rapists&#8221;, gangs and criminals<\/b> that are also spewed from official lips.<\/p>\n<p>They say that in politics everything is allowed. Except that it is not so. Much more so when we are talking about people who have families, not to mention the case of <b>Giorgos Mylonakis<\/b> and what we saw written against him&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anonymity in the social media and the toxicity of the opposition are turning the political scene into a quagmire on the road to the elections.<br \/>\nBy the &#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5250","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\/5250","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=5250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}