> Democracy is responsibility of the successive government for the deeds of the previous one.
NO. Democracy is the right of the people to violently topple down their corrupt government when they think it no longer represents them, to put up a new government that better represents them, and not to have the hold the new government responsible for the debt and crimes of the old one.
Yes, you'd need to do it violently to be able to legitimately affirm that "the old guys don't represent us, and we're not going to pay their debts! (don believe us when we say they don't represent us at all? look over there and see their bodies impaled on stakes! raise them from their graves and sue them if you want those paid back!)".
"Real democracy" means admitting that government corruption is real, that once every XX decades you need a violent "cleanse" to get rid of it, and that "civil war" or "revolution" can be a natural way for a people to occasionally re-sort-out their priorities and take back control of their government.
That's what the Greek people should do if they had a pair!
...now, in all honesty, I'm not a big fan of violence and therefore I'm not a big fan of "real democracy" either :) But then you need to add a "reset" button to any monetary policy system, you don't want the natural "violent reset" option. You can choose between "real democracy and violent resets for crises" or "not-so-real democracy plus not-really-fair-but-functional-economic-reset-buttons".
(EDIT + : ...and yeah, there's also the third option of keeping the people too brainwashed and confused for them to realize what their real options are. And then you can redirect the people's energies from "reform and government cleansing" to more appealing high-level EU objectives like being pawns in a game leading to fiscal unification... which is what's probably really happening right now. And probably not such a bad thing either.)
And yeah, some countries, like Germany, will have to literally pay (like in "pay by forgetting about getting back that debt in reasonable time and, kissing goodbye the right to take up insanely-low-interest credit") to keep these "non violent economic reset buttons" on, because they are actually paying for the "privilege to live in an EU not thorn apart by wars and revolutions".
Homo sapiens societies are by their nature violent, unstable and corrupt. Peace is neither cheap nor fair. If you want to live in a "peaceful neighborhood" you should be willing to pay 10x higher prices on your damn house, utilities, car, school etc., and accept the ethically dubious choices you'll have to make to keep that peace!
NO. Democracy is the right of the people to violently topple down their corrupt government when they think it no longer represents them, to put up a new government that better represents them, and not to have the hold the new government responsible for the debt and crimes of the old one.
Yes, you'd need to do it violently to be able to legitimately affirm that "the old guys don't represent us, and we're not going to pay their debts! (don believe us when we say they don't represent us at all? look over there and see their bodies impaled on stakes! raise them from their graves and sue them if you want those paid back!)".
"Real democracy" means admitting that government corruption is real, that once every XX decades you need a violent "cleanse" to get rid of it, and that "civil war" or "revolution" can be a natural way for a people to occasionally re-sort-out their priorities and take back control of their government.
That's what the Greek people should do if they had a pair!
...now, in all honesty, I'm not a big fan of violence and therefore I'm not a big fan of "real democracy" either :) But then you need to add a "reset" button to any monetary policy system, you don't want the natural "violent reset" option. You can choose between "real democracy and violent resets for crises" or "not-so-real democracy plus not-really-fair-but-functional-economic-reset-buttons".
(EDIT + : ...and yeah, there's also the third option of keeping the people too brainwashed and confused for them to realize what their real options are. And then you can redirect the people's energies from "reform and government cleansing" to more appealing high-level EU objectives like being pawns in a game leading to fiscal unification... which is what's probably really happening right now. And probably not such a bad thing either.)
And yeah, some countries, like Germany, will have to literally pay (like in "pay by forgetting about getting back that debt in reasonable time and, kissing goodbye the right to take up insanely-low-interest credit") to keep these "non violent economic reset buttons" on, because they are actually paying for the "privilege to live in an EU not thorn apart by wars and revolutions".
Homo sapiens societies are by their nature violent, unstable and corrupt. Peace is neither cheap nor fair. If you want to live in a "peaceful neighborhood" you should be willing to pay 10x higher prices on your damn house, utilities, car, school etc., and accept the ethically dubious choices you'll have to make to keep that peace!