What Does It Take?

The Irish electorate have been savaged by a combination of political spin and media manipulation, the spin comes from robot like political spokespeople who repeat the mantra of millions, billions, percentages, alongside perfectly sensible austerity plans that are designed to hide any real effect they may have from us poor members of the flock.
The media of course have played their part and the politics of the left should hold their heads in shame, the labour party have fallen from having a potential Taoiseach to clinging to the dapper jacket of Fine Gael as the natural junior partners in coalition. Where did this labour challenge go, did it just naturally die, did the Irish electorate indicate they wanted to the replace the failed system of politicians sleeping with bankers with more politicians who want to embrace capitalism or did the media so undermine the left wing agenda as to destroy the very fabric of their efforts.
What does it take for a downtrodden people to turn for the first time in the countries history to radical leftist policies, the conservatives have ruled since the foundation of the state, perhaps the answer does not lie alone with the media and the failed Labour party, or with what could be termed as the marginalised real left, but with the inert conservatism of a people who actively embraced the tiger economy the coffee mornings, and the consumer madness putting shopping centres at the  core of our existence.In time people will become more disillusioned and young people will continue to emigrate, sometime as all things do the situation will change and we may even find some kind of growth once more. People will move on and forget, but the real truth is hidden a people who don't value each other we will always have dark days like this, we  will of course always face some element of austerity as it is the glue that seals the package, the spin, the millions, the billions the percentages!