We need real Republicans to prevent their party from becoming terminal. It must have been for Adlai Stevenson in 1952. We need a better system. Nor can a democracy be sustained without its basic economic issues resolved. The phenomenon of Buchanan's attraction lies not so much in any qualities of his own but in the conditions that we are allowing our country to slide into.
People are eager for scapegoats and easy answers.
They say what the I.R.A. tells them to. They are the I.R.A.'s marionettes. This is why Gerry Adams and his colleagues are saying nothing new. They are frightened to do so. One also has to consider why, after all this time, the Irish government has failed to bring the I.R.A. to heel.