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cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 02:36 PM Apr 2013

I do not care whether Thatcher is alive or dead

Like Reagan, her mind died long ago. She had no ongoing effect as a living person whether her heart was beating or not.

However, it is a matter of great import to the world of today and tomorrow how she is remembered.


We lost the war over the Reagan legacy... big time.

And we may lose the war over the "W" legacy too, if the chimp lives long enough.

It is easy to lose these contests.


So hats off to everyone out there keepin' hate alive for Baroness Thatcher.

It is important work.


Somewhere in the UK a little girl is forming a sense of whether Thatcher was a role model. That little girl wasn't around back then. To her, Thatcher is merely the most famous woman in the history of British electoral politics.


And I am glad that little girl will be aware that some folks are popping champagne and dancing in the streets... will know that Thatcher was not a universally admired trailblazer and not necessarily a role model.

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I do not care whether Thatcher is alive or dead (Original Post) cthulu2016 Apr 2013 OP
Thatcher's death....... rdharma Apr 2013 #1
Just about every Brit I know hated her guts! Walk away Apr 2013 #3
I knew her name and that was about it until yesterday. Comrade_McKenzie Apr 2013 #2
Exactly. I'd gladly let Thatcher and Reagan rest in peace, if only BlueStreak Apr 2013 #4
How true, BlueStreak! nt rdharma Apr 2013 #5
She will be receiving a "State Funeral" and many Brits not pleased...n/t monmouth3 Apr 2013 #6
I don't understand that objection BlueStreak Apr 2013 #7
Because in the minds of some people only the ones they agreed with Arkana Apr 2013 #8

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
3. Just about every Brit I know hated her guts!
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 02:49 PM
Apr 2013

She had a strangle hold on her country and practically destroyed it until they booted her out in disgrace. Unlike this country, the working class and the poor know when they are getting screwed.

 

Comrade_McKenzie

(2,526 posts)
2. I knew her name and that was about it until yesterday.
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 02:43 PM
Apr 2013

The people keeping the hate alive was a very educational experience.

Keep up the good work. There's still a lot of tyrants taking up our oxygen.

 

BlueStreak

(8,377 posts)
4. Exactly. I'd gladly let Thatcher and Reagan rest in peace, if only
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 02:56 PM
Apr 2013

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the right wingers didn't use the occasion of their deaths as an opportunity to promote their own sick agenda, which in many cases neither Reagan nor Thatcher would have supported anyway.

This is not dancing on graves. It is simply pushing back against those who want to erect a giant grandstand on their graves.

Arkana

(24,347 posts)
8. Because in the minds of some people only the ones they agreed with
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 03:32 PM
Apr 2013

should be afforded such things.

Maggie Thatcher was the PM. She was a horrible person with horrible beliefs, but she was still the PM. I'm sure you could have found some people who think FDR should have been burned and his ashes pissed on when he died--but that didn't make him any less deserving of a state funeral.

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