| > I’m not entirely sure how we got to this place Me neither, but I'm 100% sure it has a lot to do with golden circles teaming up to fuck the majority. At least it 100% for sure is in Ireland. We have captured newspapers and TV completely reliant on government spending to stay afloat running glossy, thick, full-colour property pull-outs and programs. At the same time our own government argues that building social housing would negatively affect the ability of property vultures to capitalise on their tax-free earnings. We have a concrete cartel, protected by our government and courts for decades. We have openly captured regulators, who stifle complaints and drag proceedings out for years or decades only to do nothing. We have lawyers who are perfectly content to make bank off the above, and the tribunals that come when someone's actually caught taking bribes. * We have > 230,000 unoccupied homes, at the same time as record-high homelessness and child deprivation. * We have politically connected assholes making huge sums of money offering hotel rooms as emergency accommodation to homeless families. I could go on and on. And, a huge amount of this is widely known among the population. But what the government has here is an easy scapegoat. Every time they get caught bribing newspapers for fake news, or throwing crowded golf parties during a pandemic with vulture fund owners and judges 100 to a room, they just point the finger at Sinn Fein - a political party that has never once been in power - and talk about things that happened 40 years ago to rile up their aged base. Oh, and our unions are weak and spineless. Not nearly as bad as American unions, but pretty bad all the same. |