Socialist Progressives

It was Alex Tsipras and about half of his party...the other half, the losing vote, left or were thrown out of Syriza.

And STILL the Greeks re-elected Tsipras to power. Sometimes, there's no help for a people deluded into into a corner.

I have to concede though, Tspiras is a masterful politician.

And as for the Greek people....They want to keep the euro, controlled by people outside the Greek government, because the Greek government had a nasty habit of destroying the drachma at every chance they could get. They don't see the greater danger of giving up their sovereignty to outsiders who do not care about them or their future--not yet.

When the Greeks finally realize that the Eurozone is a scam and they are the sucker at the poker table, perhaps the Greeks will clean their own house, throw out the oligarchs, establish a true democracy and leave the euro....but I don't think they have it in them, frankly. If they were capable of it, they would have shown some tendency toward independence by now, in the 2000 years of being somebody else's whipping boy, starting with Persia and Rome...