Old Greece is waiting around the corner

The Greece of the past is resisting resiliently. We may have joined the European Union, we may have gone broke, we may have signed up to bailout programs and made some sort of exit from the memorandums, but old Greece is still here. Sometimes it feels like we have learned nothing. We carelessly return to our old habits.
The incumbent leftists adopted the nice-guy attitude for a long period after they had to stare into the abyss - the abyss they had been pulling the country to back in 2015. Now they are fervently wasting all that was painstakingly accumulated, squeezing out the Greek middle class. At the same time, they are manically unraveling the bailout reforms which temporarily purged the economy of some of its structural hindrances. Greece's foreign lenders are watching the backsliding with apprehension. They are cynically mumbling the damned old mantra "You know what the...