The Irish five party system does give a reasonable degree of choice, its just that the intellectual calibre of the candidates on offer leaves a lot to be desired.  Most have swallowed the Austrian doctrine either enthusiastically or on a TINA basis.  It is the intellectual decline of Keynesian-ism and social democracy, at least in terms of public discourse,which has resulted in the right being able to generate a TINA narrative - that and the turd way social democrats...

Index of Frank's Diaries