Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from 2015 Meetings

Re:Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from... by AnimalMuppet on Friday February 21, 2020 @01:58PM (#22385718)

> the politicians seem as caught up in the partisanship as the voters these days.

In public, yes. That's the point.

One could hope that in private, there's more sanity and less theater. I fear that it's just the same in private as in public, but one can hope.

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Re:Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from... by SuoDuanDao on Friday February 21, 2020 @02:38PM (#22386054)

I could see two possible positive outcomes to making a private conversation of that nature public. One, we find some impure but pragmatic horse trading, and the voters breath a sigh of relief at the revelation that the politicians aren't as caught up in partisanship as we'd feared. Two, we find out the reason they aren't caught up in partisanship is that the partisanship is less a disagreement over how to serve voters' interests and more distraction from how they serve their own interests.

Making a private conversation public is an extreme measure, but it also seems very appropriate in extreme circumstances.

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