'The first thing you have to know about God is that you're not Him'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Waters_(columnist) John Augustine Waters[1] (born 28 May 1955) is an Irish columnist and author. He started his career with music and politics magazine, Hot Press, and also wrote for the Sunday Tribune newspaper. He later edited the social magazine In Dublin, and the investigative and current affairs magazine Magill. He became a regular columnist at the Irish Times and then the Irish Independent, while authoring some works on non-fiction, and developed The Whoseday Book which raised 3 million euros for charity. He has also been a member of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.
Always a brave, lone voice for sanity. Unfortunately, the vast majority in Ireland now would either be unaware of him or dismiss him as the insane one. All his many positions might not be right, but his heart is definitely in the right place. The saddest thing is that he has no audience in Ireland now, such is our total surrender to progressivism.
I love the title of his book on Ireland - 'Give us back the bad roads'. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Give-Us-Back-Bad-Roads/dp/1782189017
I read this book, Bobby. It is very good. The LGBT mob gave him an awful time, as written in the book.
What a great interview, I had never heard of this man so thank you for posting it. I'll have to see about picking up a book of his for a read through. I empathize very much with the plight you all experience.
John Waters, one of my heroes. I have read his books and this interview is my best New Year present ever. He has such a great understanding of the Irish psyche and especially how the experience of the famine has left us as a very broken people. We are now at a critical moment. Can we reimagine who we are? If we fail we will perish as a nation.
I think with East Wall, Killarney and Drimnagh things are about to change. SF and PBP are finished in these areas and hopefully once people see they are being lied to and manipulated they will realise it has been in all areas of life, including progressive religion.
I was thinking, only in the last few days, about why we have so easily rolled over for the progressive narrative in Ireland, particularly in the last ten years or so. I was beginning to think that our period of being colonised by the English for nine centuries might have broken our collective spirit. Of course, the Penal Laws which culminated in the Famine represented the apotheosis of this demeaning colonisation. We now seem to be putty in the hands of any group or movement that we all too easily accept as our superiors. It's arguable that this is why so many Irish entered the ranks of the Church at one time. Also, I have read that many Irish people in the Church had Jansenist tendencies, which might indicate a neurotic relationship with authority. This Jansenist streak might have alienated many from the Church, partially explaining why so many so quickly have turned against Her.
If true, it's a huge strategic error on the part of the Shinners. By defending the people in these areas, instead of opposing them, they would have gained a lot of support not only there, but much further afield. Instead of people, they've chosen ideology. They might have passed their peak. PBP were never going anywhere, thankfully. The Labour Party is also finished, so there's a vacuum for a populist party.
Yes. There's a vacancy for a party proposing decency and commonsense. SF are the same in the north: they regard Catholics as mere vote fodder. Look how overconfident they were after the census, assuming all Catholics would vote for a United Ireland. I would have previously, but not now. To join one of the most globalist, repressive States on earth? No thank you. They're planning via their referendum on 'housing for all ' to usurp our right to private property and hand it to the next chancer who rows up. And don't start me on hate speech laws and possessing hate speech material - that John Watters' video would probably count as one for a start.
A great, insightful interview. I've listened to him before: a voice crying in the wilderness! Come Lord Jesus!
