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TalkingDog

(9,001 posts)
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 01:18 PM Apr 2013

Grave dancing and public shaming.



From the comments section:

"I'm all for the public shaming of people who do horrible things to others. Shaming doesn't just affect the person shamed, it lets people in similar positions (politicians in this case) understand exactly what resentment can fester, even over generations, against them.

Shame on anybody who takes milk away from hungry children. Shame on people who use divisive innuendo just so they can silence people who stand against them. Shame on people who send people to war, to line the pockets of the rich."



I resemble that remark.
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Grave dancing and public shaming. (Original Post) TalkingDog Apr 2013 OP
Exactly. Why should we venerate in death those we hated in life! backscatter712 Apr 2013 #1
Can we get a redo on Reagan? BrotherIvan Apr 2013 #2
We can when HW finally kicks the bucket. Initech Apr 2013 #6
... BrotherIvan Apr 2013 #8
*Emperor Palpatine voice* GOOD... GOOD... Initech Apr 2013 #9
This seams to be a fine tradition. We should consider adopting it. wandy Apr 2013 #3
I'm all for it too. Chakab Apr 2013 #4
Which policies? Thatcher was the mother of trickle down economics Turborama Apr 2013 #10
Let the truth be spoken. sibelian Apr 2013 #5
As do I. Apophis Apr 2013 #7
My family came from Wales. Miners. Maggie called miners DevonRex Apr 2013 #11

BrotherIvan

(9,126 posts)
2. Can we get a redo on Reagan?
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 01:39 PM
Apr 2013

Allowing them to turn him into a saint has let him and his baneful ideas live on foreverrrrrrrr

 

Chakab

(1,727 posts)
4. I'm all for it too.
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 03:56 PM
Apr 2013

However, the sad thing is that if you look at Thatcher's policies position by position, she actually stood considerably to the left of the President and many other so-called Democratic party politicians who are currently in office.

Turborama

(22,109 posts)
10. Which policies? Thatcher was the mother of trickle down economics
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 04:56 PM
Apr 2013

She did everything she could to destroy unions, privatized everything and would have sold off the NHS if she could have got away with it.

It's ridiculous to assert that Thatcher was "considerably left" of anyone.

DevonRex

(22,541 posts)
11. My family came from Wales. Miners. Maggie called miners
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 05:15 PM
Apr 2013

the enemy within. It's true the miners were the left of the left. I am proud of that heritage. The enemy are the Thatchers of this world and those who went before her, who took everything away from the people. There's no love for Maggie in Wales, or in Cornwall or in Scotland or in The Republic of Ireland, I can tell you that. Nor should there be.

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