“And that, I fear, is the problem with democracy. It’s only as good as its voters.”
The odd thing about this is that it is both true, and, in its own way, admirable
Sinn Fein are an alternative only if you struggled with maths in school, and didn’t much care for history either.
Once you become a pensioner, it is, in effect, no longer your problem
Leo Varadkar was right about this one – it was political theatre, not real opposition.
Politics is now a profession, not a vocation, and in a profession the objective is to remain employed.
Though pragmatism might be what voters want, the opposition inside and outside of the Dáil is not incentivised to provide it.
Senators have no business commenting on people’s employability.
If you look at Ireland this week and see a madhouse run by weird quasi-religious obsessives, know that you are not alone.
Aside from offering generational change on the left, Cairns offers something else that nobody else can: Purity.
It’s an interesting conundrum, and one wonders whether the Soc Dems have really thought it through.
The natural choice.