Irish Examiner view: Engage with politics or face an ugly tomorrow

There are far too many reasons to shrug off the idea that we get the politicians and hence the politics and outcomes we deserve

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a debate on the united EU approach to COVID-19 vaccinations at the European Parliament in Brussels onWednesday, February 10. Picture: Johanna Geron/AP

It is not difficult to be disinterested in how politics work or don't work right across the Western world. There are far too many reasons, or excuses, to disengage, to shrug off the idea that we get the politicians and hence the politics and outcomes we deserve. 

That disdain is not without some justification but it has a cost, one that manifests itself in many disheartening ways. That not-for-me choice has many fathers and in recent weeks and months, they were all too plain to see.