If Alexis Tsipras knows well, it is to dress the old in great words. “Shock of honesty, justice and democracy” was baptized this time – as if the country has not already experienced a “shock” in its days, when Greece frozen in front of the ATMs and hope became capital controls.
His interview is more of a return manifesto than self -criticism. He cites the “suffocation” of the current political system, as if he did not serve, he did not reproduce it and did not enhance it with the “moral advantage” with the yachts and the “facilities” in the interests it today denounces and the attempt to control the media. Tsipras denounces a democracy to “paralysis”, but avoids remembering that he was the first Greek prime minister to substitute his finance minister with a parody referendum, just to cancel it next week.
And so, the man who talks about “a shock of honesty” was the architect of the most hypocritical political doctrine: “Others say, others do – for your good.”
By “the many” to the … same
Tsipras presents his departure from the House as “fleeing forward”. But in fact, it is a flight from responsibility. The “path to the people” is more like a tour of re -launching his political career. Not as a Member of Parliament, but as a writer, a leader, and – why not? – leader of a new “progressive front”.
His self -presentation as a “politician outside the system” causes an ironic smile. Tsipras is the system. It is the personification of anti -systemic hypocrisy: a politician who ruled four years, worked with the right of Kammenos, applied three memorandums, appointed friends and relatives, and today insists on explaining how “politics has to reconnect with ethics”.
Ethics, however, is not like the pre -election brochures – it is not recycled.
The “old world” that is convenient to exist
Tsipras insists on comparing himself to the “old system”. In his narrative, they “brought bankruptcy” and he “saved the country”. But the story is more colder: in 2015 Greece was already stabilized and he himself made it to uncertainty, destroyed the banking system and tied the country with the strictest memorandum of all.
And no matter how he tries to appear as a “victim of slander”, the “elements and documents” of his book will hardly overturn the key question:
If in 2015 it saved Greece, why did citizens save themselves in 2019 by voting to leave?
The romance of “New Patriotism”
The phrase “New Patriotism” sounds nice. But said by the politician who mocked every “national interest” as “Mnemonic Propaganda” and signed agreements without reading their English text, it is simply a rhetorical fire.
Tsipras’ patriotism is selective. He always comes after the defeats. It is a garment that is worn every time the myth of the “popular leader” – the man who is wronged by the “systems” but never admits his own mistakes.
The “path to the people” or the path to the past?
The book he is preparing can also be read as a prelude to return. Only Tsipras returns to a landscape that changed without him. The society that once dropped him is tired of words, “revolutions in terms of Scariba” and speeches with “Sorbonne students”.
His return is not convinced because he brings nothing new – neither politically nor morally. On the contrary, it reminds that The old system never died; it just learned to speak more poetic.
If Greece needs a “honesty shock”, the first step would be sincerity from those who ruled in its name.
And if something is no longer missing from Alexis Tsipras, they are the words.
What is missing – and this is not borrowed – is credibility.