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Errors and Omissions
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The following is taken from my notebook. It was written on January 3rd this year, as I tried to make a list of problems to solve or salve. I haven’t changed any of it in the light of hindsight. It will be my last post on politics for a month.
- The main opposition party is further to the right than FF. Its only possible partners are to FF’s left.
- FG is stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
- FF is a permanent government. The rich and powerful have come to accommodations with it. Therefore they will all resist change.
- Bertie is indestructible. Any attack on him is counterproductive.
- The opposition are used to losing.
- Many voters find party politics boring and irrelevant. The incumbents have the most to lose and therefore the greatest incentive to motivate their support.
- The parties react to the media as though they were actually voicing common concerns, rather than their own. Worries over policy documents, when manifestos are irrelevant.
- Opposition continue, in the main, to do the same thing and expect different results: one of the definitions of madness.
- Desperate lack of talent.
- Control freakery in Labour HQ.
I’d broadly concur, bar point 2. FG isn’t stupid, but it is trapped within an electoral system where it has to make choices that appear stupid. And there’s no way out of that electoral system.
Point 1 is the one which I find utterly counter intuitive in terms of the behaviour of the Irish ‘left’.
So your point is
What do you mean by point 10?
What I meant at the time was exactly as written. What clarification would you like?