FF the biggest party in Ireland

Yes, when I heard it, I too though I had traveled back to 2006. But I wasn't hearing things, though I wish I was.
Well, what can I say?
I always believed that, contrary to everything I saw and heard in this country over the last 20 years, most of the Irish where intelligent and politically aware. That voting FF was just some kind of freak occurrence like the magic roads, the moving statues, a blind spot for good food or beer, a universal desire to build crappy, cold, drafty houses (that cost E750k to buy and where located in Portlaoise).
I honestly though Ireland had turned a corner when FF where exposed for the liars, thieves, conmen and psychopaths they where.
People voted for another party, doesn't matter that they where not all that different, just as long as they did not vote for that other shower of cnuts.
But now I honestly am lost for an explanation. I simply cannot fathom why.
Is it like an abused spouse that just goes back again and again and again, knowing that they will get abused and beaten?
People who vote FF stand for cute hoor politics, backhanders, corruption, "He fixed the road", hypocrisy, keeping the big boys rich, cronyism, getting jobs by pull, making sure only the rich get by and trying to keep the old boys club as exclusive as possible.
Maybe it's fixed pattern behavior, like migrating birds, trees shedding their leaves, the sun rising, then setting again. Programmed or bate into people's heads, as unchangeable as the seasons and the tides. Default behaviors that will persist despite circumstances or outcome.
If so far there was every reason for hundreds of thousands of people to flee this country, there is now every reason for twice as many to get out. Because Ireland will never learn from the mistakes of the past 100 years, it cannot learn and is unable to change. This country will always be poor, corrupt, a gombeens paradise and it will never, ever change.
I am telling you now that this country will never see unemployment of less than 10% unless someone capable gets voted in.
If that doesn't happen, this country simply deserves what happens to it.

Maybe I'm being too harsh here, though. Maybe there are good reasons to vote FF. Let's examine a few:
1: You where born yesterday and haven't picked up a newspaper, turned on a TV or had a look at the internet.
2: You hit you head on the way into the polling booth and are suffering from amnesia
3: You currently have a gun to your head
4: You are the FF member trying to get elected
After that I'm pretty much drawing a blank.

OK, things are difficult, but bear this comparison in mind:

FF is a mugger that beat this country to a pulp and stole it's wallet.
FG had to act as the paramedic and apply bandages, plasters, amputate and give some pretty horrible medicine.
Now the patient is complaining that things used to be so much better before, I felt much better and it's all the doctor's fault. You want to go back to the mugger who beat you senseless with an iron bar, because, you know, it wasn't all bad.
I usually say "this is not personal", but I am now addressing anyone who is now contemplating putting an X beside any FF candidate. Yes, I am talking to you. You and the party you vote for are everything that is wrong with Ireland.
If FF get back in, I will tell everyone abroad that, yes, everything you have ever heard about this country is true. It is "Begosh and begorrah, top o' the morning, ah shure she'll be grand" inbred thick mickery.
Because in that case, this country does not deserve a better reputation.
And I will write to every European politician to kick Ireland out and never give it another cent again. It won't work, but it's worth a try. Maybe the Troika can dissolve FF, we have rolled over for everything else.