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 @tayledras Ok, you are correct there is always a few bad apples in the bunch. Thatcher immediately comes to mineπ 7 comments
@tayledras Given the current nutcases and narcissists running the world, I'd almost long for the idyllic world of Saint Reagan and Saintess Thatcher than the insane asylum run amok of Donald Trump. We vote not for the politicians we'd like to have, but the choices we are given and the opportunities that take us closest to our desired destination. @tayledras Reagan and Thatcher started this mess so don't wish for that again. You are correct we vote for the choices we are given and lately that is a problem. And you think Trump will create lesser messes? I cannot fathom what future historians will make of Trump's foreign policies and political actions. Most of "our" [US] current miasma is the US still "digging out from under" the policies and actions of both Bush administrations. @tayledras Where the heck did you come up with that assumption? Of course I don't think Trump is a solution! Who do you think is behind Trump/Heritage Foundation- it's the IDU. It was rhetorical, not accusative. "And you think Trump will create lesser messes?" was an actual discussion I had with my aunt this last week. None of our politicians are especially good. We don't value decent politicians or treat them very well. We need to take stock of our meager offerings and choose the least-bad rather than the known-good. |
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Thatcher as "The Iron Lady" is such a remarkably complex character
Personally, I find it's a disservice to reduce her too much. Her service to the UK and her relationship with the US is easily worth an entire encyclopedia set of essays and analysis.
I'd argue she was "a necessary response at the time" to world history. I'd argue that she and Ronald Reagan truly did accelerate the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War as it existed then.
But she is "complicated."