It should never have come to this. They have commendable ideals but Tsipras and Varoufakis, and activist and an academic, were the wrong people at the wrong tim

It should never have come to this. They have commendable ideals but Tsipras and Varoufakis, and activist and an academic, were the wrong people at the wrong time. What the Greeks needed was old-school politicians who have played the game for years. In an ideal world people would all work together for the common good, but in politics it's every person for themselves, and it's naive to think anything else. Using mainstream media and social media to constantly attack the people on the other side of the negotiating won over their voters, the Greek people, and the left in Europe, but ultimately has only served to anger their creditors (the politicians and those who voted the politicians in).