Ireland has again descended into “Level 5” lockdown, which is as bad as it sounds. It will last months, and at the end of those months, a new excuse will be found to continue this totalitarianism. Her government is utterly beholden to COVID-ism, a new variation of an ancient religion that gives a mystical justification for total control by government of their population. We’ve been able to see firsthand why strict constitutions must be written to bind the power of government, because once government gets a taste of power, it never lets go.
One paradox of a free society is that it doesn’t produce people who are willing and able to defend that freedom. In fact it produces the opposite, masses of people who in fact hate it, and actively work to install a government that will reverse the progress made possible by freedom.