After all, everybody knows that misinformation can only come from the hated “far right”, right?
Senator Michael McDowell
It will, as progressives have done in almost every campaign over the last century, be an effort to guilt the public into voting against the alleged sins of their grandparents and great-grandparents.
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These campaigns often come down to who you side with, more than what you side with.
Any honest conversation about misinformation would include the basic fact that the greatest purveyors of misinformation in any democracy – not only Irelands – are elected politicians and unelected political actors.
“It nearly impossible for us to be enthusiastic about this referendum.”
We reject DeValera’s Ireland, and all it’s works, and all of its empty promises.
But hold it alongside European elections, and the vote might become an afterthought, sneaking through with a yes vote because of a lack of debate, rather than because of a thorough debate.
If one was to ask Leo Varadkar what his greatest achievement in politics have been, what do we think he might say? I would hazard a guess, personally, that the marriage equality and abortion referenda would make it into any top five. The Government never tires of reminding people how brave it was to take […]
“Nobody cares about that referendum”, my interlocutor tells me.