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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Irish Politics 2020: come out you leo stans & fight me like a man
 
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Ramrod Hotshot
May 30, 2003

 As a foreign observer, I can't get over the fact that your two main parties don't even pretend to be ideologically distinct from each other. The difference is based on some long-forgotten point of contention in the Irish civil war, right? So it's amazing that even after all this time the parties haven't been replaced by a typical center-left/center-right split, or that FF/FG haven't evolved to inhabit ideological camps, even if just in theory.

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Ramrod Hotshot
May 30, 2003

Skull Servant posted:


The people who were alive at the time of the Civil War only really began to die off from the 1990s, and even still, their children will be heavily influenced by their voting patterns. Again, this next generation are only dying off now. Fewer young people want to support the main two parties, and it's doubtful that anyone under 40 who hasn't voted for either of them will change their mind in the future. So, a realignment could happen, but it could really only happen at this point in time.

Thanks for the primer.

Who would stand to gain from a realignment? The Labour party?

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