Bush is probably a liberal compared to Kartzaferis
*shrug* Karatzaferis is a philo-Nazi who included avowed neoNazis in his political combination. Pretty much EVERYONE is a liberal compared to him. :-)
So what is DIKKI?
A minor party (last elections it got less than the 3% it'd require to be represented in the parliament) which I'd probably describe as being of socialist-fascist persuasion with a chauvinist bent. It broke away from PASOK about a decade back and since then it's been pretty close to the Communist Party in pretty much every issue.
And what is so bad about Byzatium
There's nothing wrong with Byzantium in its own place and time -- which was 500 years back. But now we're in modern-day Greece and a Greek person who poses with a flag of Byzantium behind his back (as Karatzaferis regularly does) is atleast 5 times worse than a modern-day American who'd pose with a Confederate flag behind his back.
Byzantium wasn't a democracy. There was no freedom of either expression or religion -- and in these respects it was worse both from our modern times AND from Ancient Greece.
So, people can feel free to honour the pretty architecture and music *without* thinking Byzantium as a whole to be a vision of paradise-on-earth, as some of them seem bent to do, or even worse a vision of how things should one day be again.
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Re: I thought my country had problems
Date: 2004-02-10 05:35 am (UTC)*shrug* Karatzaferis is a philo-Nazi who included avowed neoNazis in his political combination. Pretty much EVERYONE is a liberal compared to him. :-)
So what is DIKKI?
A minor party (last elections it got less than the 3% it'd require to be represented in the parliament) which I'd probably describe as being of socialist-fascist persuasion with a chauvinist bent. It broke away from PASOK about a decade back and since then it's been pretty close to the Communist Party in pretty much every issue.
And what is so bad about Byzatium
There's nothing wrong with Byzantium in its own place and time -- which was 500 years back. But now we're in modern-day Greece and a Greek person who poses with a flag of Byzantium behind his back (as Karatzaferis regularly does) is atleast 5 times worse than a modern-day American who'd pose with a Confederate flag behind his back.
Byzantium wasn't a democracy. There was no freedom of either expression or religion -- and in these respects it was worse both from our modern times AND from Ancient Greece.
So, people can feel free to honour the pretty architecture and music *without* thinking Byzantium as a whole to be a vision of paradise-on-earth, as some of them seem bent to do, or even worse a vision of how things should one day be again.