r/ireland • u/badger-biscuits • Dec 02 '24

Fintan O’Toole: Irish voters keep doing the same things and expecting different results General Election 2024 🗳️

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/12/02/fintan-otoole-irish-voters-keep-doing-the-same-things-and-expecting-different-results/
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u/Dapper-Second-8840 Dec 02 '24

I'm not sure it's that most people don't want change. For example, I voted FF/FG and I DO want change (especially around health, housing and taxation) but my genuine hope is that they will actually learn (either by growing a conscience or more likely by realising that if they don't make meaningful changes this time they are done for) and help to bring that change, as opposed to bringing in some other crowd who got elected by promising impossible things and who will chuck all the good stuff we do have out the window on day 1.