SkyBlueFlux
Well-Known Member
It’s weird because I would readily agree that Thatcher and Reagan set us on a bad path. One that may have made a segment of society well-off, but did so at the expense of something more fundamental to our social fabric.
That said, I have no doubt prime Thatcher would be absolutely rolling in her grave at the current Conservatives around today, as Reagan would be to see Trump.
Which leads me to believe that perhaps their lasting impact is more about how they set in motion a kind of weird devolutionary cycle. Increasingly more inept people morphed their ideology into something that became totemic rather than having some practical basis. They have gradually stripped it of any utility it might have once claimed to have had (even if that utility was to a narrow group and costly to wider society). And today they parade the skeleton of Thatcherism around as if it were still alive. And complete fools follow along pretending it is somehow still the same thing of ideological principle that it once was. Rugged free market capitalism. Remember that? The Conservatives who voted for Brexit don’t.
Basically they managed to create a political philosophy that seems to consistently degrade itself over time until it becomes… well… nothing really. Like a husk of itself. To all rational folk, they have seemingly left behind a group of people who are just gnashing their teeth while getting nothing done. Bizarre and depressing.
That said, I have no doubt prime Thatcher would be absolutely rolling in her grave at the current Conservatives around today, as Reagan would be to see Trump.
Which leads me to believe that perhaps their lasting impact is more about how they set in motion a kind of weird devolutionary cycle. Increasingly more inept people morphed their ideology into something that became totemic rather than having some practical basis. They have gradually stripped it of any utility it might have once claimed to have had (even if that utility was to a narrow group and costly to wider society). And today they parade the skeleton of Thatcherism around as if it were still alive. And complete fools follow along pretending it is somehow still the same thing of ideological principle that it once was. Rugged free market capitalism. Remember that? The Conservatives who voted for Brexit don’t.
Basically they managed to create a political philosophy that seems to consistently degrade itself over time until it becomes… well… nothing really. Like a husk of itself. To all rational folk, they have seemingly left behind a group of people who are just gnashing their teeth while getting nothing done. Bizarre and depressing.