What are opponents to voting abroad so afraid of? The explanations of ‘it’s too hard’ or ‘it’s too risky’ feel threadbare and lazy
Ireland has always been a country of emigrants but there’s a clear divide between those who were privileged to stay behind and those who didn’t have a choiceis scheduled for next week but some of those whose lives have been most affected by how the country has been run will not have a say.who looked at the life on offer left by successive governments at home and decided their best option was to leave are not given a vote.
Those who couldn’t tolerate the failures of the State and might be the most motivated to have a say on the matter can’t. Which feels a bit convenient. Telling the Irish abroad they can’t shape a country they loved but had to leave feels wrong. The explanations of “it’s too hard”, or “it’s too risky” feel threadbare and lazy. The democratic equivalent of telling kids they have put those biscuits back at the shop right now or “the man” will come to take them away. Is it anonymous bad actors we’re afraid of or is it the votes of people who have hopes of coming back to a better home?There’s great drying out.
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