JFK and New Democracy intraparty elections…

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US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy has authored, during his short lifetime, a book of political biographies, dedicated to his wife Jackie, under the tittle “Profiles in Courage”. In the first chapter of this book he refers to courage as “the most admirable of human virtues” quoting Ernest Hemingway’s “Grace under pressure” definition.

This grace and decency has to be presented by New Democracy, acting as the truly great center-right political party that possesses the intraparty constitutional reflexes in order to productively absorb the pressure that has been exercised by successive electoral defeats as well as by the Proteus’ alternations of the left-right coalition of SYRIZ-A-NEL which actually dominates crucial “middle ground” voters.

This political profile of courage, as “grace under pressure” must be demonstrated by all four of the candidates for the leadership of New Democracy. Senator Albert Beveridge of Indiana, back to the early 1900’s, can definitely act as a source of inspiration, as JFK quotes his words in the abovementioned book: “A party can live only by growing. Intolerance of ideas brings its death. An organization that depends upon reproduction only for its vote, son taking the place of the father, is not a political party, but a..tong; not citizens brought together by thought and conscience, but a…tribe held together by blood and prejudice.”

Chris Ch. Liapis Jr MD, MSc, PhD – email: [email protected] – twitter:@chliapis