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Thread #153300   Message #3592275
Posted By: Jim Carroll
15-Jan-14 - 08:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: Thatcher fibbed about coal mines!
Subject: RE: BS: Thatcher fibbed about coal mines!
"Democracy? So who elected her,"
I'm tempted to say the same type of people who elected Hitler.
But of course, it's never as simple as that, is it.
Thatcher was elected on a number of counts - just as her counterpart in pre-war Germany was - a combination of a series of reasons.
Thatcher won the day because of the incompetence and betrayal of her predecessors, and the selling of a dream that benefited some but impoverished many more - fairly obvious from your responses, which group you come from.
The "Will Of The People" allows us to elect leaders on thhe basis of promises that are never kept and of them playing on our own fears and prejudices (shits like Powell with his Rivers of Blood speech, backed up by turdules like you and your fick mate - no change with the present mob, of course)
None of us get the Government we are promised and few of us get the Government that we want - unfortunately, that's how parliamentary democracy works - little if anything to do with real democracy and the will of the people.
Attempting to blame the electorate for Thatcher's stated fascism doesn't alter in one bit that she was a fascist that took her power to the extreme, and would have taken it further, if allowed - you can blame the people if you like, personally I blame the set-up that allows them to attain power.
I don't suppose for one minute that you are going to respond in any way to the implications of Thatcher's support for a mass murderer and her describing his behaviour as "democratic" - which says more about you than it does about her repressive period in office.
Persisting with these arguments really does bring the rats out of their holes
I spy with my little eye,
Something beginning with F (two of them)
Jim Carroll