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Thucydides, in his history, describes pitiful behaviors between the parties at the time, while at the same time the Greek nation was bleeding due to the Peloponnesian War.
The democrats violently overthrew the oligarchs of their city, incited by the Athenians, and the oligarchs also overthrew the democrats, obeying the orders of the Lacedaemonians {1}.
In recent years, Hellenism has again fallen into the national tragedy of civil armed strife with "Thucydidesian" symptoms, imbued more deeply by the passion of the ideological "against..." between communists and liberal democrats.
Today, the "instead..." of the parties has led our country to bankruptcy and society to impoverishment.
And the calamity they have caused so far is not enough, but they continue with audacity and stubbornness to serve the "instead..." on a half-dead body of Greece...
Following these and so many other party confrontations, which Greek history has unfortunately recorded, the following questions arise:
Are they due to the organic divisibility of the party political system, which results in the fragmentation of the social body and unfair and conflictual competition among citizens?
Or is it due to the differentiation of the characters of the peoples, depending on the geography and climate of each country? And if so, what is the basic character of the Greeks?
Indeed, both the geographical area of ​​Greece and the climatic conditions are governed by natural contrasts, which were engraved in the nature of the Greeks as a collective unconscious during
Carl Gustav Jung, with the main characteristics being strength and intellect, as Aristotle says {2}.
This dynamic competitive character also extends to the political party system, resulting in the creation of a recurring and reciprocal vicious cycle between politicians and citizens, as described by Plato in "The Republic" in the alternations of regimes {3} and confirmed today by our experience.
On the contrary, this dynamism and intellectual character of the Greeks, from destructive, emerges into creative and progressive, when it is free from its partisan embrace, as is verified by the progress of the Greeks abroad on a global scale.
So the question logically arises: Does the party political system not suit the character of the Greeks?
And if so, which democracy is beneficial for Greek society?
The answer is given by the father of democracy, Aristotle: "The type of democracy is proportional to the city and the people and that the organization and operation of its institutions can be combinations of aristocracy and democracy" {4}.
With respect to the readers Piraeus, May 27, 2015

Notes
1. Thucydides, History 81, 82-82, 84-84, 85-2008. Translated by Angelos S. Vlachos. Estias Publications. Athens XNUMX.
2. Aristotle. Politics. 1286b/20, /30-35. Translation-Comments by Nikolaos Paritsis. Papyrus Publications. Athens 1975.
3. Aris Diamantopoulos. The Platonic Leader. Civilizations. Pages 133-310. Desmos Publications. Piraeus 2012.
4. Aristotle. Politics. 1317a-1321b/10. Translation-Comments by Nikolaos Paritsis. Papyrus Publications. Athens 1975.