Quote from njwes
The history is indeed different. The SNP has always been a non-violent party. The Irish political system emerged from a War of Independence and a subsequent Civil War between the pro and anti treaty wings of the independence movement. Fianna Fáil were the part of the anti treaty side in the Civil War which, a few years later, took their seats in the democratic legislature of the 26 county state.
Vote as you shot will not be the principle around which the Scottish political system will be organised.
Just look at the conservative Country folk who make up a lot of the base of the Parti Quebecois for a counter example. The PQ might be officially socialist, but it plays to those voters through cultural conservatism
