Gript-A source of misinformation. **Read OP before posting**

What's baseless?

That the far left is part of the Irish establishment?

They're in the Oireacthas ffs, they're not standing outside Leinster House in their underwear screaming incoherently. They're in the chamber and have been for a long time.

Those thugs have been arrested and will be prosecuted, and rightly so.

The far left loonies are sitting in the Oireacthas spouting their insane rhetoric and actively influencing our society.

One is worse than the other,but neither are good.

I'm talking about both because one is blamed for everything and the other is given carte blanche.

The far right are a bunch of idiots, the far left are far more organised and well positioned to push their agenda.

That isn't deflection, it's an honest assessment of the facts.

The far right are not as stupid as you seem to think. Plenty of their phrases are being used by the ordinary person on the street. Start of quite reasonable and get more and more extreme, that's how it goes and is going.

I think some people here are equating socialism with a far left movement. As a socialist myself, I wouldn't describe myself as far left. Certainly left, but I have some right wing ideals as well.

What I am trying to think of though, is what would make people (in Ireland) on the left riot and set fire to busses and trams etc? Having been on many marches for abortion rights, gay rights (2 things that don't affect me directly), Palestine rallies, water marches, etc, I honestly can't think of anything. I imagine if the Garda overreacted, there might be some pushback, but I think they learned their lessons from the student protest back in 2010.

Which far left extremist views do you particularly have a problem with? Most sensible people have said RBB was an idiot for saying what he said about Israel.

What are the views you have issue with though? The ones that are on a par with the physical manifestations of far right rhetoric that lead to burning of tents, DP centres and the riots in Dublin?

I'm not ignoring anything.

You're the one saying that the Far Left are more dangerous than the Far Right. Yet you haven't actually explained how or given any examples of the ways the Far Left are as dangerous (or moreso!) than the Far Right which has lead to burning of tents, DP centres, harassment of librarians and riots.

I stop to think before I write anything.

The fact that they are elected means they are part of our parliamentary democracy.

That might be an issue for you but for me it is a reality which must be dealt with politically.

I disagree. I think that's your opinion but the reality is the far right are dangerous in their violence and intimidation and harassment but when that gets mentioned - it's downplayed, it's pretense the far right is minimal, its pretense the impact of the far right is minimal and its deflected by "look over here at these other people" - even the language of calling them "idiots" is about deliberately downplaying their danger.

That's not really true though. Your constant thing on this site is to deny, downplay and deflect when the far right get mentioned.

Oh, you flatter yourself.

Richard Boyd-Barrett, Paul Murphy, Gino Kenny etc etc would run a mile from the prospect of entering office - y'know, making decisions and taking responsiblity for those decisions? Can't be doing that.

Far easier to be the perpetual hurler on the ditch.

Edit: clarify who I was talking about!

Boyd-Barrett sorry.