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The Great Dictator Speech: Response To Charlie Chaplin's Speech

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To best describe the attitude, which seems to be the same all over the country, around the Irish voting system and general elections I have decided to look back to Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Great Dictator’ speech. Nearing the end of this speech he says, “In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: the Kingdom of God is within man - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!” (Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator 's Speech, 2016).This represents people’s feelings toward the voting system, they want to feel that they have the power to evoke change on a national level, but they have been lied to before by “brutes”. We question whether or not we truly have the power to change or is it all simply nullified by coalitions. Over the years, each generation seems to pose a question regarding Irish politics, ‘whether or not the electoral system is dysfunctional in its approach and should we replace it with something different’ maybe a mixed
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