littlegreenpills posted:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100211120/anti-thatcher-animus-speaks-volumes-about-the-isolation-and-insignificance-of-the-modern-left/

Nothing reveals the impotence of the modern Left more than its anti-Thatcherism. Some will be tempted to see the misjudged joy being expressed by some Leftists today in response to Baroness Thatcher’s death as evidence that the Left remains a cocky, swaggering force, always ready to declare class war, even on a day when an elderly lady has died and her family is in mourning. But this would be wrong. For in truth, the intensity of Leftists’ loathing for Thatcher is directly proportional to the paucity of their own impact on public debate and to their waning influence over ordinary people. As the Left’s intellectual and electoral fortunes have declined, so its hatred for and scapegoating of Margaret Thatcher have intensified.
Thatcher – or rather “Thatcha”, always said with a dramatic sneer – has become the Left’s catch-all explanation for why it isn’t taken seriously by the masses anymore. Thatcher brainwashed the plebs into becoming materialistic, they say, making them love “stuff” more than community and turning them off Big Picture politics. Thatcher turned people individualistic, they claim, making it more difficult for Leftists to pursue a politics based on collectivity. Thatcher stole working-class voters from their natural home of the Labour Party, they argue, fatally denting that party’s standing among the masses. (This overlooks the fact Labour’s support had been declining long before Thatcher allegedly colonised the fickle brains of Joe Public: among manual workers, Labour’s support fell from 62 per cent in 1959 to 38 per cent at the opening of the 1980s.)
Time and again, the failures of the Left – to convince the public of its agenda, to win the working classes to its cause – is projected on to Thatcher. She and her ideology are transformed into an all-powerful force that corrupted the little people’s minds and singlehandedly finished off Socialism. That is why Thatcher became, if anything, even more hated in recent years, long after she left office, including among new radical Leftist who weren’t even born when she was PM: because Thatcher-bashing is fundamentally an expression of Leftists’ fury and frustration at their own increasing insignificance in public debate and among the demos. How much easier it is to claim that the public have being mentally kidnapped by an awesomely powerful leader than to have a serious think about why latter-day Leftism failed. The question is: now that Thatcher is dead, who will the Left blame for the indifference and even hostility it is met with in communities up and down the country?



my new fav columnist is right

The venom being unloaded at the moment is so personal, so true to the individualism and atomization that was her legacy to Britain. Forget a state funeral, the myopic passion being bestowed upon her is a most fitting and respectful legacy.

Cycloneboy posted:

lol she left office before I was born

lol if you were British future archaeologists would be able to determine this fact solely from the calcium content of your bones

Superabound posted:

getfiscal posted:

the worst part of that statement is that it says "freedom and liberty"

the best part is where Obama proudly states that gender will no longer stand in the way of our daughters dreams of supporting fascist south american dictatorships or literal apartheid. im glad we finally live in that world, a better world

she was a simple grocer's daughter who rose to the top of british politics

cleanhands posted:

she was a simple grocer's daughter who rose to the top of british politics

"grocer's daughter" to "top of British politics" is like two steps, max. Hell, Kate Middleton did it in one

She stated on her retirement she had joined the parallel government, which runs the world unelected, as do all ex-Prime Ministers and Presidents.

mustang19 posted:

http://forums.islamicawakening.com/f18/kafirah-margret-thatcher-dies-65122/IA has all the same content Rhizzone does, just with serious in-depth analysis.

Towards the topic, I say good riddens to this shaytan

AmericanNazbro posted:

how typical to see supposed leftist tearing down a woman for being successful and reaching a prominent position of political power.

I know this post was made in jest but you’re kidding yourself if you don’t think the vitriol she gets is worse because she’s a woman.