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Former Minister George Petalotis made a successful post in which he claimed that if we had a similar party to the US in Greece, Trump would easily win. Very logical. Imagine that we have bipartisan conditions at a rate that approaches the entire electorate. One party is led by the Greek version of Trump and the other by Biden. Who will win the election?
It would be a derby. The existence of only two political camps leads to various alliances, to the political coexistence of people who agree on the basic and do not allow the rest to separate them. Who would vote for Trump? All the good people. Deniers of the virus, those who denounce the New Order of Things, old anti-European drachmas, nationalists, racists, orthodox Taliban, Greeks, leftists and rightists “anti-systemic”. And who would go with Biden? Let’s say “We live in Europe”, much less a part of the left. If we make some necessary simplifications, we will see that the 2015 referendum is the equivalent of this electoral battle. In some ways, the Greek match between Trump and Biden would be a derby on paper, but on the field the Reds would get their blue phalanx.
The American political system naturally leads to great division. At the same time, however, he reveals it. Let us put aside individual parameters, local peculiarities, and economic correlations. And let’s look at the image above. It seems cleaner. And it largely highlights the aesthetic difference between the two parts of the electorate. This division, adapted to local characteristics, permeates the entire social body of the West. It’s just that the political system is made up of more parts and doesn’t allow it to be compactly shaped. The division that characterizes American society exists in almost all Western countries. It is not revealed because the political map has more colors. But it exists. And it has replaced the confrontation of the ideologies of the last century.
In the 20th century we disagreed about how the world should be. In the 21st century we do not agree on what the world is like. We look at the same image, but we see completely different things. In the old world, ideas were controversial. In the new world there is logic. Anti-systemic antiquated ones challenged the status quo in terms of class. The new anti-systemics claim the right to an alternative reality, to the challenge of common sense.
It is a deep division with multifaceted extensions, social, political, aesthetic. With daily battles, personal and collective, open and covert, conscious and unacknowledged. From social media to the US elections. If we look at it this way, then Biden’s victory was a triumph of Good. A little push on the chariot of human history so as not to get stuck in the mud. Isn’t it always like this?
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