Thatcherism

 

Margaret Thatcher has died. She will be canonized by corporate media. Like Ronald Reagan, she bolstered crony capitalism on the backs of the working class and poor. The growing disparity in wealth across the planet can be traced largely to the Reagan-Thatcher Era. By canning "The Fall of the Soviet Empire", Reagan and Thatcher, both militaristic nationalists themselves, covered their tracks in history. The fact that the Soviet Union fell from within is now ignored. This morning I listened as Henry Kissinger, a war criminal, lauded the late Thatcher in iconic terms. Birds of a feather. It is unfortunate that the New Feminism among the middle class look to Thatcher as a model.