Sounds like the Irish equivalent of the Canadian trucker protests, with the same level of attention from Americans trying to make it about something it never was and drowning out the local discourse about it. Especially stupid in this case because America is directly responsible for what’s being protested.
I find the Irish political system almost incomprehensible as an outsider. From what I understand the two major parties are both formerly conservative and are now indistinguishably, blandly neoliberal and the only real opposition is a left-wing populist party. How did it get like this?
Depends who you ask - when it’s levelled as an accusation at small fringe parties and some independents it means racist etc- illiberal- when levelled at a mainstream party it just means “not dedicatedly progressive at all times”. Tends not to get used as anything other than a pejorative
Just look at how the media potrays the new Japanese Prime Minister as “right-wing.” It's similar. She's no different than most Japanese, rational and no nonsense.
Isnt right wing simply the words used to describe those who notice that the uniparty offers no alternative to the flooding ,chaos and political persecution we see all over the west today?
And dare to use that fascist claim to free speech and one law for all , as inciting hatey,hurty words against their shock troops and Rainbow Guardis.
“there was no secret ideological core to the protests that could serve as the start of a larger philosophical change for the country.”
“But FF have spent the last 40 years on a self-hollowing project, discarding their old clothing of nationalism and religion to become a purely administrative, steady-as-she-goes, status quo, incrementalist party. Ideological thinking is done by people in Europe or America, by activists with access to government, and smaller coalition partners. They are not left or right; they’re nothing. There is no “ideas wing” within the party with a long-term vision, or that is interested in institution building or developing a new philosophical outlook, and so no sub-section of the party that could generate a leader that would do things differently.”
Thank you for this. Not sure I am drawn in by the Alex Jones headliner, but you surely have gathered together a good bit of information for readers' benefit.
when such a conservative country transitions so quickly into a liberal progressive society the economic payoff needs to so great and constant to suppress the counter-transitional opposition.
the social system during this period is generally very unstable and even a small apparent economic crisis can spark a "counter-revolution"
Sounds like the Irish equivalent of the Canadian trucker protests, with the same level of attention from Americans trying to make it about something it never was and drowning out the local discourse about it. Especially stupid in this case because America is directly responsible for what’s being protested.
I find the Irish political system almost incomprehensible as an outsider. From what I understand the two major parties are both formerly conservative and are now indistinguishably, blandly neoliberal and the only real opposition is a left-wing populist party. How did it get like this?
It’s a small country with a limited political market, and people crowd around an acceptable consensus - what ever that is at the time
Just noting for transparency that I've updated this one (which was done in a bit of a rush) for clarity and fixed some grammatical/ spelling errors.
What is right wing in Ireland? I consider the GOP to be center left and I’m pretty sure 100% of the Irish in Ireland are to the left of that.
Depends who you ask - when it’s levelled as an accusation at small fringe parties and some independents it means racist etc- illiberal- when levelled at a mainstream party it just means “not dedicatedly progressive at all times”. Tends not to get used as anything other than a pejorative
Just look at how the media potrays the new Japanese Prime Minister as “right-wing.” It's similar. She's no different than most Japanese, rational and no nonsense.
Isnt right wing simply the words used to describe those who notice that the uniparty offers no alternative to the flooding ,chaos and political persecution we see all over the west today?
And dare to use that fascist claim to free speech and one law for all , as inciting hatey,hurty words against their shock troops and Rainbow Guardis.
You nailed it with these.
“there was no secret ideological core to the protests that could serve as the start of a larger philosophical change for the country.”
“But FF have spent the last 40 years on a self-hollowing project, discarding their old clothing of nationalism and religion to become a purely administrative, steady-as-she-goes, status quo, incrementalist party. Ideological thinking is done by people in Europe or America, by activists with access to government, and smaller coalition partners. They are not left or right; they’re nothing. There is no “ideas wing” within the party with a long-term vision, or that is interested in institution building or developing a new philosophical outlook, and so no sub-section of the party that could generate a leader that would do things differently.”
Thank you for this. Not sure I am drawn in by the Alex Jones headliner, but you surely have gathered together a good bit of information for readers' benefit.
the issue is much deeper
when such a conservative country transitions so quickly into a liberal progressive society the economic payoff needs to so great and constant to suppress the counter-transitional opposition.
the social system during this period is generally very unstable and even a small apparent economic crisis can spark a "counter-revolution"