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hawkwing_lbDear voters of the United States of America:
Thank you for not fulfilling the nightmare that has haunted my sleep since the London Olympics. Visions of Mr. "Smugface" Romney and his sidekick Paul "the Randian" Ryan being able to make swagger with the world's largest arsenal of conventional and nuclear explosives at their back had been an unpleasant counterpoint to thoughts about global politics in the year 2013.
Sincerely, thank you for not electing a pair of empathy-deficient insulated aristocrats of business to positions where we had to take them seriously when they threw their weight around on the international stage. (I confess, you had me worried for a little while.)
I was more concerned about the outcome of your elections than I have been about any of ours. Your political discourse inevitably affects our own. Ireland has long been pulled between the competing poles of continental and transAtlantic economic and political ties. But more than that, our politicians are predictable in their imperfectly-concealed corruption, terrible policies, and general inanity: predictable, in that they're (none of them in positions to have an effect) not good leaders. Instead, they follow the path of least resistance, and look to foreign developments to provide for justifications for their domestic actions. The Irish electorate's general passivity in the face of adversity isn't our most admirable quality - but thank you, for not giving my country's Arseholes-in-Chief the example of Romney/Ryan to emulate.
I mean, France's only just stopped giving them the example of M. Sarkozy, and the less said about the economic policies of Mr. Cameron, the better.
Sincerely yours,
An Irish socialist.
Thank you for not fulfilling the nightmare that has haunted my sleep since the London Olympics. Visions of Mr. "Smugface" Romney and his sidekick Paul "the Randian" Ryan being able to make swagger with the world's largest arsenal of conventional and nuclear explosives at their back had been an unpleasant counterpoint to thoughts about global politics in the year 2013.
Sincerely, thank you for not electing a pair of empathy-deficient insulated aristocrats of business to positions where we had to take them seriously when they threw their weight around on the international stage. (I confess, you had me worried for a little while.)
I was more concerned about the outcome of your elections than I have been about any of ours. Your political discourse inevitably affects our own. Ireland has long been pulled between the competing poles of continental and transAtlantic economic and political ties. But more than that, our politicians are predictable in their imperfectly-concealed corruption, terrible policies, and general inanity: predictable, in that they're (none of them in positions to have an effect) not good leaders. Instead, they follow the path of least resistance, and look to foreign developments to provide for justifications for their domestic actions. The Irish electorate's general passivity in the face of adversity isn't our most admirable quality - but thank you, for not giving my country's Arseholes-in-Chief the example of Romney/Ryan to emulate.
I mean, France's only just stopped giving them the example of M. Sarkozy, and the less said about the economic policies of Mr. Cameron, the better.
Sincerely yours,
An Irish socialist.
