You've been looking in the wrong direction, the dangers are coming from the Left - read OP

Lol

you have yet to compare their public platforms actions or statements.

you name dropped them but have yet to establish they are even comparable. Or as you put it just a moment ago to Annasopra: you asserted it, but have not evidenced it.

Maybe Scandinavia-ish? Though they tend to be fiscally responsible rather than Homer Simpson running the garbage that most other left governments turn into "Can't someone else pay taxes?".

.... and vice versa. The further you go from center, they more authoritarian you get, regardless of which direction you go.

The devil we know is a bad option but the wing nuts waiting in the wings are likely to leave us wishing we were only dealing with greed and cronyism if they ever get into power.

Ireland is in desperate need of political reform but unfortunately there is the potential for a protest vote against this current scumbags that could send us hurtling back to the bad old days of the 80's or worse, and we may never recover.

We're stuck allowing multinationals to take the piss and pay fvck all tax because we have no other options. Prior to this current arrangement the country was a dump that people were clamouring to get out of for generations. Sinn Fein et al would have us back in that situation.

We're certainly not spoilt for choice in the next general election.

Yeah, I stated that earlier, but someone dismissed it as 'bunk' - not much point in debating with someone who is that dogmatic themselves.

But the "dangers" (whatever they are - has anyone actually said?) always come from extremism and dogmatic authoritarianism. The problem is, we do like to provoke the extremists sometimes.

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Thank you for confirming my deepest prejudices, expressed already in my post when I said:

"The whole premise that the world can be viewed through a bifocal lens of "Left" and "Right" is nonsense and tends to be peculiar to countries with outdated representative systems that essentially permit only one alternative: Left or Right? Red or Blue?

... It polarises people, dumbs down discourse and gets us all nowhere."

All you have got as an argument is "the other guy (in your case, The Left) is so mad that anything, even the nonsense spouted by MY favourite loony, is preferable"

To strengthen this line of argument, you then say that the stupidest point of view of the most moronic of your opponents is, MUST, be espoused by anybody of different outlook to yourself. This is the secret of the supposed success of the craziest American news networks. If somebody from their preferred party says something ridiculous, with which they might even disagree, they don't address the issue at hand. They don't suggest a modified approach that they might actually be comfortable with.

Instead they demonise the crazies on the other side and say "Here is your only alternative!" They stamp out intelligent discourse by only recognising the extreme arguments of each lunatic fringe. They ignore intelligent discourse by only recognising the extremes. A bit like you posting a GIF of a screaming depressive and suggesting that this is the only counter to your point of view.

We live in a world of increasing literacy, unprecedented global access to knowledge and the potential to expand genuine knowledge and expertise. But the powers that be, particularly in the US but to a lesser extent in the UK as well, want to try and reduce us to a simple Left/Right or Blue/Red binary and demonise the other side.

More fool anyone who buys into it.

He kinda has to as a politician - the question is, how much airtime is he getting compared to more mainstream poiticians?

Wasn't he recently speaking out against the hate incitment bill? Doesn't sound like a far left stance.

It's also a case of how much attention the movement is getting - at the end of the day, he's still just one TD in a field of 160.

That's because of history. We know what happens in Europe when the far right gets elected. We haven't had the same history with the far left (yet).

I find it ignorant when people use the adjective that most describes the political stance they have the most to describe the media. Nothing new there.

Quite a lot of reasons why they resulted in mayhem and misery. One of course being outside interference from capitalist forces.

So it's all capitalism's fault that every communist regime ended up a disaster?

Sounds like a serious cop out.

Communism failed because of capitalism. Nonsense.

They tend the fail for the same resaon - human insecurity.