Thinking? There is a combination of extreme arrogance and ignorance at play here, also called hubris.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

"Demagogy" and "inflation just around the corner" and "irresponsible" and "Unserious" are rhetorical weapons that have always worked in the past. Humans, when confronted with new situations, reach first into their bag of proven tools, no matter how obviously (to anyone else) unsuitable they are for the new circumstance.

And besides, anybody who understands what is going on in Greece is unlikely to object to that editorial.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.