Good morning and a very happy Thatcher Day to you all! It's been 13 years today and she's still dead. 🎉

I often wonder who's been worse for the UK overall, Thatcher or the parade of self serving kleptocrats of more recent years. Farage and Johnson caused untold damage between them, and Farage may yet cause much more, but, honestly, they're just natural byproducts of Thatcher's project. She was the root cause, and all these sneering clowns who followed her are just minor characters in her play. She may be dead but the wounds she left us still bleed.

Let's make today the day when we grab a stake and check on her grave, just to be sure.

Always two there are: a master and an apprentice.
@bodil 🔥🔥🔥
@bodil So much bad shit really started with Reagan and Thatcher...
@ainmosni All the bad shit, really.
@bodil Well, much of it was scattered around before, they packaged it all up, made it more effective, and modernised it.
@bodil Oh they did manage to have genocide, Jim Crow and nuking the shit out of places all without Reagan. To name just a few, in case anyone was wondering whether the Other Capitalist Party was better. #notallshit
@ainmosni
@viraptor @ainmosni @bodil Nope, start with #Goldwater, the one who wanted to succeed #Eisenhower who was the last decent Republican 🇺🇸 president. And continue with #Nixon.

@ainmosni @bodil

Oh goodness gracious no. They don’t start much at all. The US was destined to get to its neoliberal nirvana.

@BenHM3 @bodil I don't disagree with that, actually, but bad shit got streamlined, modernised, and better sold with those two. Granted, it most likely would have happened without them, but maybe a bit later.
@bodil root cause analysis = yes it was her.

@bodil yeah, I mean don't get me wrong I disagree with pretty much everything Thatcher stood for, but at least she did stand for something, and quite probably believed she was ‘doing the right thing’ even as it needlessly shattered community after community for generations.

These others? It's all just greed and grift.

@zbrown @bodil a more honest kind of evil...
@bodil My Dad, who is definitely not a fan, said he respected Thatcher because she stood for what she believed in. Most of the rest since have stood for whatever the Sun and the Mail have on their front page (and more recently, whatever people complain about on Facebook or Twitter)
@jonpsp It's the ones with a vision you really need to watch out for.

@bodil @jonpsp
Yeats said it pretty well:
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming

The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the…

The Poetry Foundation
@bodil Whenever I think of her, I always think of a line from a comedian I remember. The only problem with pissing on Thatcher's grave is eventually you run out of piss.