The first victims of the elections (Greek)

[frazzled]

2. Figuring it out would mean ...

not just a backlash but an actual positive vision for what happens moving forward: as it stands, all that happened is that the country has been thrown into a giant confusion, with coalitions on the extreme left and extreme right taking away enough votes from the center right and Socialists to prevent a government, but remaining minorities themselves. It's a message that people know what they don't want, but not that they know (as in France) what they do want.

I think there was only one real outcome today: Angela Merkel has lost her power. Whether Hollande can take over the role is uncertain, though one can be hopeful. As for Greece: it looks really screwed up to me.