2023-09-10 19:48:00
Vassilis Stigas’ thanks to Ilias Kasidiaris for the Spartans’ party entering the Parliament did not imply the Spartans’ relationship with the man convicted of running a criminal organization; they declared it. The politically ambitious and hyperactive – even from prison – Kasidiaris had no reason to support a party that could not have a decisive influence in the future, and the party that until it received Kasidiaris’ support was in obscurity could not to conceal that he owes his existence to him. The subsequent condemnations of fascism and Nazism in the eyes of the world have had no substantial impact on the faction’s DNA, even if the latter is reluctant (so far) to unfurl its propeller. Be that as it may, the world rightly feared the appearance of yet another far-right formation; it rightly suspected the worst. The clones may not yet have the confidence of the original to take similar action, but they have its moral background, they have a parliamentary presence, and for all we know, they may just lack a convenient excuse.
Disabilities
The developments of the last few days, however, not without some doses of humor, proved that the Spartans do not lack only one reason to be dangerous. They lack basic skills, basic intelligence, the basic makeup needed to build their far-right project on solid political foundations. The Spartans are not so much a political force as a parodic echo that not only lacks the substance of the protagonist, but does not even possess the flexibility of a good puppet. First, the deputies challenged their leader, foreshadowing his abdication and squinting in the direction of the real, unofficial leader; then, the official leader challenged the unofficial leader and his deputies, applying excommunications and hurling accusations that, unfortunately for him, they attracted the attention of the Supreme Court; in the end, under the risk of annihilating own goals, deputies and captain reconstructed as such, and now they pretend that nothing happened, like quarreling children who prefer to find them even if they are hated, than to punish them the big ones. The Spartans are not particularly keen on their ideological stakes; they don’t care much about politics; they believe in Kasidiaris, but they won’t even sacrifice themselves for him. Their big concern is another and constitutes the main source of their weakness: money. It was the government grant that made them forget collective principles, personal agendas and conspiracies, and return disorderly to order.
No perspective
From the hair-pulling of the Spartans turned into curling group therapy, we infer not only the avarice, self-interest and pettiness of the otherwise “proud nationalists”, who actually behave and act slavishly. We mainly restrain their deep systemicity, but also their unquenchable desire to remain within the system at all costs. The evil of far-right representation in Parliament is self-evident: the far-right representation itself. The good thing is that, through its institutionalization and publicity, the Far Right is exposed and, for the umpteenth time, is stripped of its fanciful garb of a highly unconventional, radical force that opposes the “system” and “fights” for the honest ideals that everyone else they despise. It’s more prosaic: the Spartans were elected to fill the far-right gap in the market with the help of the country’s most famous far-right; they can’t rally; they can’t evolve; they can’t do anything but collect—for as long as catch up – the government money that is their share, while looking at the sinister face that makes sense to them in the shadows. They know that’s where they’ll end up too if they try something else.
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