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Whilst I agree that no one person makes the decisions and that they could be seen as a front or a mouth-piece, they do, unlike a puppet, have free-will to step down from their position if they don’t agree with something that is happening in their name. Therefore if they do something then they must either agree with it or are so weak and status/… Read Morepower/desperate-to-have-a-legacy hungry that they can’t stand up for their true beliefs. — J
That’s the point, no matter how you judge her moralistically for what “she did”; it was not her actual idea. Monkeys are replaceable. One dies, another chump steps in. One resigns, another one is put in place. American “democracy” Bush (snr), Clinton, Bush (jnr), Obama ( Clinton as second most powerful position). See a pattern? Our “rulers” have their way of getting things done. And not only that, no matter how much Thatcher stood up and said “down with the miners” or whatever the fook she said, *we* all stood back and let it happen. The police force enforced it. The papers supported / raped it for all it was worth. And the rest of us stood by and got on with “saving our skins”. Saving our jobs. So if you want to look to “blame” anyone, then look at your parents, and my parents and every one over the age of 45. The mesh, as it surely is, is everyone.
The bstards that are responsible for the death camps in Germany are everyone from the train drivers to the order givers and on to the folks that stood by and let it happen. The mesh is huge. It is everyone. Manipulation is rife.
In short, decry Thatcher in any way you want, but she was only 1/6 billionth of the actual problem. There is a powerful social force for change that could easily be brought to bare on any political “decision”, if they social will was there.
For me, for instance, I’d have total transparency in every gov agency, from emails to security bulletins. I mean, even the “bad guys” (as if) knew we were watching them, they’d have 66 million pairs of eyes on them too. And all the expenses nonsense. And all the treaties for war ands trade. It concerns us, so why is it not in the open where we can see it? It is how we are “ruled”.
We accept that as soon as we vote and that buys us the right to bury our heads in the sand and say it was the fault of X. Or Y. Or Z.
It’s actually not Thatcher’s fault. But of course, moralistic judgements are easy to pass, and they do fill the tabloids from cover to cover. The news is that as long as satire is the only comment, then they “get away with it”…as long as you’re laughing at them, they’re laugh up their sleeve.
So blame Thatcher, hang her out to dry. Makes not an ounce of difference to her. Never did when she was in power, and it’ll not now.
Thatcher, to summarise, is not the problem here:)