Why Greece has been failing for the last decades, and how to fix it

1. The Greek Constitution, as a document, has been problematic. The articles were allowing politicians to be corrupt. This had disastrous consequences for development and the economy. Of particular importance is article 86 of the Greek constitution, that refers to the punishment of politicians that violate the law.

2. Greece doesn't have the appropriate structures that allow citizens practically to defend their legal rights. Laws about claiming rights in court are not suitable for everyday use, or it is expensive or complicated to use the law.

One example is using the Small claims court for matters of everyday life. It is costly and time consuming to to use it, and the claims from winning cases are not appropriate. As a result, people can't claim their money back when others destroy their property.

3. Citizens don't realize the benefits of having a useful Constitution. They don't realize the direct effect of the Constitution to their own benefit, nor the losses from not having a useful Constitution.

A useful Constitution prevents corruption, stops tyrannic governments, and enables citizens to be able to gain benefits for themselves through the running of a well-tuned country.

4. Greek citizens don't realize the benefits of having and upholding a good law. One reason is that they never saw it in practice. However, they don't seem to realize that all developed countries are also trying to achieve it, nor how much that contributes to them being as developed.

The benefit of law is both functional and financial. A good law allow people to interact with each other in a way that allows them to benefit themselves. And when the laws are not good, they can adjust them as appropriate.

5. The Greek citizens don't realize that exercising such rights are largely irrelevant of what political and financial system a government has, except for tyranny and dictatorship. The above apply for the correct running of Socialism, Democracy, Communism and Capitalism.

6. The Greek citizens unfairly complain about the malfunctioning of all of the above. They are responsible themselves to change them and grant them the respective rights. Even worse, they blame those who try to do so. They get confused, and give false, inappropriate reasons as to why others do so. Typically, they falsely think that anyone who tries to do it is either nationalist, or right-wing. Such complains confuse existing issues, and stop those who try to resolve them.

7. Greek citizens have a problematic passive-aggressive behavior. They are not exercising fundamental rights.

a. Greek citizens are not exercising their Constitutional rights. They are and not scrutinizing the Parliament when those are violated in practice, and not taking measures to apply the Constitution, or otherwise change it.

b. Greek citizens are not exercising their legal rights. They are not taking other citizens to court for everyday legal violations. They act as if the law doesn't exist, and as if they choose how to do things on their own.

c. Greek citizens falsely present that exercising such rights is a matter of sentiment. The basis of exercising such rights is practical and functional. Sentiment must drive functionality and practicality.

The Greek citizens have adapted to this passive-aggressive behavior as a result of the problematic Constitution, and years of living in corruption. Passive-aggression contributes against the good running of the country. Damage to the running of the country increases exponentially, the more people do it.

This passive-aggression is ultimately a statement that its actor doesn't want their country to have any system of government. They have rejected the system that allows them further rights. Such an actor does not deserve any rights. Moreover, this behavior cancels out any claim of the actor about their motivations and sentimentalism towards common benefit. Hence, actors who are making such claims are lying.

Consistently with the above, the communistic theory of Karl Marx doesn't only apply to communism. Resisting the government in ways relevant to the above, and as also stated Marx, is essential for every form of democratic government.

I don't support anyone who remains passive-aggressive! I want a functional Greece, that allows people to collaborate better and claim their rights so it can grow and develop. We can have this Greece today. And building it is not the responsibility of children, but of adult citizens.

Every Greek citizen needs to:

1. Know and keep up with the Constitution

2. Exercise their Constitutional rights

3. Ensure the Constitution allows them to stop any tyrannic or corrupt government

4. Uphold the law themselves to the extent they can

5. Report legal violations to the authorities

6. Report problems with the application of the law to the authorities

Therefore, Greek citizens need to find what they can do to achieve the above.