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  • #52
    sdanseo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,236 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    on actual polling day when the keyboard warrior unemployed and under 30 die hard shiners aren't bothered going to a polling booth.

    I always find it amusing that the scroungers with nothing else to do all day are the ones who don't bother going and voting. Are they just lazy or is it that they simply have a sense of entitlement to free moolah that our welfare state has bred into them over generations of handouts?


  • #53
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,344 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    sdanseo wrote: »
    I always find it amusing that the scroungers with nothing else to do all day are the ones who don't bother going and voting. Are they just lazy or is it that they simply have a sense of entitlement to free moolah that our welfare state has bred into them over generations of handouts?
    Without trying to classify them all together, traditionally certain disadvantaged areas had very low turnouts due to the belief that regardless of who go into power, their lot wasn't going to change as politicians didn't care about them.
    As they didn't vote, the politicians may not have made much visible effort within these areas thereby fulfilling the circle.


  • #54
    sdanseo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,236 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    kbannon wrote: »
    Without trying to classify them all together, traditionally certain disadvantaged areas had very low turnouts due to the belief that regardless of who go into power, their lot wasn't going to change as politicians didn't care about them.
    As they didn't vote, the politicians may not have made much visible effort within these areas thereby fulfilling the circle.

    Makes perfect sense. I should qualify my statement to say that I didn't mean to imply that I group people together like that either - I have no objection to welfare where it's needed and called for. I have a problem with people who take it and then complain about politicians, but don't bother to vote.

    I genuinely believe anyone who doesn't vote - regardless of where they're from - should forfeit the right to protest about government controlled issues. If you want to vote for no-one, spoil the vote and they count those too.


  • #55
    MouseTail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭MouseTail


    It is also intergenerational I imagine. Those whose parents didn't vote or engage in civic life are less likely to do so.


  • #56
    KingBrian2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,363 ✭✭✭KingBrian2


    MouseTail wrote: »
    It is also intergenerational I imagine. Those whose parents didn't vote or engage in civic life are less likely to do so.

    The water protesters must take some responsibility for this. They complain about how unrepresentative this govt is and how the country is rotten to the core but elections come and go and they waste their vote by either not bothering to vote or giving it away for nothing.


  • #57
    sdanseo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,236 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    KingBrian2 wrote: »
    The water protesters must take some responsibility for this. They complain about how unrepresentative this govt is and how the country is rotten to the core but elections come and go and they waste their vote by either not bothering to vote or giving it away for nothing.

    They'll all also shoulder the blame for Sinn Féin getting more seats this time round. People are so caught up in the relatively unimportant issue of water charges that they don't notice - or don't care at all - that Sinn Féin are completely incompetent. They just want someone to axe their €160 a year bill.


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