The fact of the matter is this: “Far Right” is just the bucket, increasingly, into which the state and its allies toss every issue and group that they do not wish to deal with.
Some months ago, it seemed all but certain that Biden’s Democrats would lose both chambers of Congress this November.
Rent controls and their effects have never been a secret: In every country, and every city, where they have ever been introduced, the impact has been disastrous.
Collins has no relevance at all to the Ireland of today.
If we had a functioning political left in this country, one that actually cared about the working people and deprived people that it pretends to represent, Saturday’s protest would have been much bigger.
For the HSE’s figures to be correct, that would mean that there would have to have been 3,100 deaths this year from Covid, making it the worst year of the pandemic to date. This, very clearly, is not true.
Not, of course, that anyone would ever suggest that an inexperienced Minister like Norma Foley would be being played like a fiddle by career civil servants. Perish the thought.
When faced directly with a choice between a politician in Cheney who told the truth, and a politician in her opponent, Harriet Hageman, who persisted in telling Trumps lies, voters on the right deliberately and actively chose the liar.
If it is the fate of the Irish Church to die, then it will die. But it should die with its head held high for the things it believes to be eternally true. Not crawling on its belly before the whims of the moment.
The absence of violence was supposed to bring them together. If anything, it appears to have driven them further apart.
The people who assaulted Mr. Sheehan have no fear of getting caught. If they do get caught, they have no fear of prison. If the Gardai bring them all the way to court, chances are they may get suspended sentences.
And this is the bigger problem with modern society: For all we talk about “diversity”, every single difference amongst us must be pathologised.