O’Rourke’s ‘treason’ charge reveals FF’s one-party state mindset

THE fact that an influential and intelligent government politician like Mary O’Rourke (Letters, January 26) could describe opposition criticism of the Taoiseach as “treachery towards one’s country” epitomises the extent that the one-party state mentality has permeated the thought processes of the elite in this country.

That opposition parties have no right to criticise powerful government politicians, and that this democratic republic has no option but to become a one party state a mere 86 years after it was founded, are ludicrous propositions.

The reason for this ‘we are the state’ mentality derives from the fact that one party has been in power for so long. The exalted view they have of themselves derives from this fact.