Still failing to listen

WHY is the establishment media so hostile to radical new ideas in this beleagured country?

Why do those, such as Sinn Féin, the ULA, CORI, etc, who advocate such obviously sensible ideas as standing up to greedy bankers and applying a proper tax on high incomes and wealth (the norm in most successful, non-PIIGS, European countries) get dismissed as “economic illiterates”?

Didn’t the failure to listen to alternatives to the cozy consensus lead us to where we are?