BREXIT thread

[Sidney]

@anon7035031

Sorry, I forgot your idea of left is gulags and thought control police.

Really? Please link to where I have argued for a gulag and thought control police.

You’ve called for Islam to be banned. Who’s the thought control police, again?

You see your problem is your irrational anger consistently ends up making a fool of you.

One minute you shriek that I’m an ultra-liberal (you wouldn’t be far off there, I definitely am) and the next, you shriek that I’m the exact opposite, because you consistently end up getting your ass kicked in these exchanges.

That just makes you look incredibly stupid.

@anon7035031

Democrats are not left wing, they are historically center and more recently center left. There are obviously left wing members of the Democratic party, but the policies of the party have always been centrist and that’s unlikely to change unless the DSA take over (which could happen, given how utterly incompetent the current DNC is).

Again, you contradict yourself, as you do below.

@anon7035031

As if that wasn’t bad enough they are now heading down the socialist rabbit hole which ensures they will lose the midterms in 2018. They are such a shambles of a party with no leadership, the Democratic Socialist party is starting to set the agenda.

@anon7035031

If you don’t think however that the Democratic party is moving to the left then I think you need to reevaluate your sources. Democratic Socialists like Ocasio-Cortez are getting a lot of airtime on MSNBC and CNN. This is an expressly anti-capitalist party. I’m not saying their voices should not be heard, but a party who’s intent is to destroy capitalism is hardly simply liberal.

@anon7035031

FF are historically center left, nobody sensible would argue with that. Who was it who introduced free education in Ireland and built social housing, two things you apparently care about?

FF have always been conservative, as you admit yourself.

@anon7035031

Most Republicans in Ireland would have been pretty conservative, there were only a few leftists.

Fianna Fail are “The Republican Party”, remember.

Fianna Fail didn’t introduce free education or build social housing because of any left-wing ideology, because they didn’t have any. They did it to buy votes because they’ve always been pretty much an ideology-free party in economic terms with a strongly conservative social bias.

If you knew anything about Ireland and it’s history, you’d know that. The only chance Ireland ever had of having a national healtth service died with Eamon De Valera bowing to the demands of JC McQuaid.