Government itself is an abuse of democracy

IS the Government itself not a blatant example of the abuse of democracy?

At the last general election, Bertie Ahern stood as the leader of Fianna Fáil and ended up being Taoiseach, yet now we have Brian Cowen in that position?

The electorate were given no say in this. At the last general election, the Green party declared it would not go into government with FF under any circumstances, yet they couldn’t get into FF’s bed fast enough afterwards.