A Tangled Web

Taking Their (Baseball) Bat Home

 

Party politics is, by definition, an adversarial game whereby rival parties attack the policies of their opponents.  It has been going on for generations and, notwithstanding the combative stances of party spokesmen, seasoned politicians accept criticism as an essential part of a healthy democracy.

 

All parties, that is, except Sinn Fein/IRA.  They think exposing any part of republican policy to public scrutiny is tantamount to an illiterate pissing on Shakespeare's tomb.  For them, any measure designed to underscore the consequences of electorally emboldening Irish fascism, is nothing more than smear campaign geared to, among other things,  'marginalise its voters' (as if people who express pleasure in voting for murderers don't deserve to be marginalised in the first place!!).

 

Sinn Fein is a Marxist party with virulently left-wing economic philosophies.  Putting its representatives in government would indeed mean punitive tax rises in the Irish Republic.  I see nothing wrong in simply informing the Irish voters of that fact.   If a potential government partner espouses policies which would denude Irish wallets the length and breadth of the State (on top of the already massive tax rises they would need to fund any form of 'Irish' unity), the electorate has the right to be informed.   I know Sinn Fein/IRA are more used to silencing critics with Semtex and baseball bats but, on this occasion, they will simply have to take their bats home and continue to display juvenile behaviour from the comfort of propaganda HQ.