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ELI5: Why are citizens of Greece ripping apart the cities in response to government spending cuts that will keep the country from total financial collapse?

Are they too uneducated to understand? Is there not an open line of communication between the government and the citizens?
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They feel they have been duped.

Greece was so poorly run for many years there is no way out of this situation without someone getting really hurt and going though a lot of pain for the next decade or so. The only question is at the end of negotiations who will be left holding the idiot ball.

The 'greek rioters' blame shitty government and large European banking and don't see why their social services and salaries have to be cut. They feel like Greece should default, not pay back their loans or leaving the Euro and regain control of their currency.

The European banks want to get their money back, but to do that Greece has to remain a fuctioning state, so they can pay their bills. This needs bailouts to keep greece going. The Banks and Eurozone dosen't want to bailout greece if they don't make changes to their government and civil laws to stop the problem from happening again. They would like to avoid Greece leaving the Euro because it would hurt the currency and their economies in the long run.

Looks like the interest of the Eurozone and the banks won and the greek people lost. Lesson to learn : don't elect idiots in the first place.