Why is our country broken? Why are our public services dysfunctional? Why did government fail us so often even in the good times? Why do most people feel that nothing ever really changes?
The answer is simple: When you keep voting for the same people you keep getting the same results.
We have had a choice between a slim selection of old political parties with old ideas and ways of doing things. Even when they promise us something new they quickly revert to the same old ways once in government, as we saw with Fine Gael and Labour. They had, quite rightly, attacked Fianna Fail for its record of waste, mismanagement and providing jobs for the boys while failing to tackle the fundamental problems of the day.
When they got into power themselves they immediately set the tone of their administration by putting the boys into jobs and going native with the senior civil servants to prevent any real and meaningful change.
Ireland deserves better than this. Ireland deserves a political movement that has real change at the core of its reason for existing, unlike the other parties who exist to take and hold power and not much else.