UK politics runs on spite and bigotry and barring revolution or disintegration there is nothing to stop it getting worse. Ireland needs some way of enforcing a regime of political and cultural hygiene from the US and UK or we will catch what they have.
Our press is the big threat here, they understand normalizing bigotry is a huge boon to the right and there's no part of the Irish establishment that does not see keeping the hippies out of government as a sacred duty.
Speaking of big threats, this morning I recoiled to hear Oliver Callan, as a 'joke', casually do exactly what Trump does: mock disabilities (https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22505973/). Biden has a speech impediment that he manages but he is now old.
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