@TheBreadmonkey Thatcher has been dead for a long time, but the spirit of her neoliberal delusion still reigns over an entire society. #Shifty

It's absolutely fascinating looking back on 50 years of craven political dysfunction and social upheaval in the UK.

I had forgotten about Northern Ireland and the violence, the bombings, the hatred. I had forgotten the devastating self inflicted unemployment that savaged generations, young and old. Living through that history you don't properly see all the pieces, you can't see the forest for the trees. This was before the internet. You didn't get a birds eye view of what's happening, not in the way we see the big picture in America right now.

And I'm watching this doco and thinking, far out this was so fkd up. Things were way worse than I realised at the time.

And in a very strange way, it gives me hope for the USA. That things can change. That a course can be corrected. At least to some extent anyway. I mean the whole Brexit debacle is a whole other chapter. There are multitudes of ways to steer a country into an iceberg.

But just the idea that it's possible to imagine a different future, that is so very very important right now.

#USPol #Shifty