Catherine Connolly becomes President of Ireland. Left-wing Catherine Connolly previously succeeded Michael D. Higgins, the popular poet and former arts minister who served a maximum of two terms.
We wish her success for Ireland, but we also want to remind her of one thing. The fundamental characteristic of leftists is that they prioritize values like freedom, democracy, and conscience over issues that directly affect the public’s pockets. These values are important for humanity, but they cannot be defeated. People need to eat before freedom. For people constantly struggling, constantly thinking about the future, and worried about how they will survive, freedom, humanity, and morality are not measures to ease the economy. A person who is well fed may demand freedom. A person with a job may call for more democracy, but a hungry person can do neither.
Therefore, Catherine Connolly will need to establish policies that prioritize the economy. She will take steps to improve the economy, eliminate the threat to people’s futures, and then grant them more rights.
Bread first, then freedom and democracy. If you say democracy and freedom first, the people will follow whoever provides the bread
