One of the great losses to Ireland was the loss of Brewhon law and the Bards. The person of the bard was inviolate and their satire of the nobility was powerful. Intimidation or harm of a bard was considered one of the severest transgressions, attaching great shame. The bards and their satire in concert with the Brehon legal system was a very effective break on the abuses of feudalism. The impacts of the first four hundred years of English rule were heavily mitigated by these laws and customs. The Tudor conquest of the latter half of the 16th century eradicated the system and set the stage for the next four hundred years of horror and genocide.

When you must suppress dissent, when it comes to banning the satirists. It is always a warning sign. It is the tacit admission that you know the truth but refuse to acknowledge it. Cognitive dissonance, anger and lashing out the classic symptoms. If any of you figure out the gambit to successfully penetrate that in online commentary I'd love to know it!

But whatabout our satirist? How should each gender be served? I say smugly!

Because the future is ours and that future is knocking on the door. With every single advantage from the Democratic party, media, organised left groups - Clinton still can't convincingly put Sanders away. And that's down the the voting patterns of the under45 group that participate in the Dem primaries/caucuses.

For a long time the left has ridiculed the right for opposing the tide of equal rights. We knew that the millennial generation overwhelmingly supported our views on women, minorities, LGBT. We knew that the future was ours because that generation of voters was so big and so united. And lo it came to pass.

Where the millennials are today is where the country will be tomorrow. That future is not neoliberalism or its apparatchiks. That future is clearly an embrace of framing and solutions of the Democratic Socialism. You see they are no longer divided by race, gender, orientation or any other wedge. All that's left is the class framing. The framing that the over45 Democratic runs screaming from. The demographic that cowers in the corner at the term "liberal".

It's 2016 and the water is lapping over the establishment deck. We can still do it today but if we don't we'll do it convincingly in 2020.

Because fuck this shit!