#pasokification

Here we have Athens in PASOK merchandise. The idea came to me after a discussion with myself:

My brain: Hey, remember Hapo's Athens?

Me: Yes?

My brain: What's his theme color?

Me: Green.

My brain: And what else is green?

Me: PASOOOOOK!

For those of you wondering, PASOK (Panhellenic Socialist Movement) was an influencing social-democratic political party during the '80s and '90s.

Most adults who grew up during that time period remember it as a "Golden Age", where the country met positive development (not just the big cities, like Athens and Thessaloniki, but small villages as well) and "even homeless people had a home to stay" etc.

But all good things must come to an end. The reason behind this development was mainly because we were borrowing money from other European countries and after a time, we had to pay them back. The problem was that we wasted that money on entertainment mostly and not on profitable activities, like business, trade, industry etc. That's one of the many reasons why we met the financial crisis at the end of the first decade of 2000. Actually, the reasons are much more complicated, but I am not an expert to discuss them, so I recommend you to check them out yourselves.

There's also a term named after it, called Pasokification, which refers to the decline of centre-left social-democratic political parties in European and other Western countries during the 2010s, often accompanied by the rise of nationalist, left-wing and right-wing populist alternatives.