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Thatcher, the Grifter, and Stupidity
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When Margaret Thatcher, the long time Prime Minister of England died in 2013, President Barack Obama issued a statement completely devoid of politics. Mr. Obama referred to Thatcher as a “grocer’s daughter” and an “example” that “no glass ceiling can’t be shattered.”
In addition, Mr. Obama held up Thatcher as a great champion of “freedom and liberty” and a “true friend of America.” Needless to say, the statement was not well received in left and progressive circles.
However, in England when the funeral motorcade of Margaret Thatcher, the ex-Prime Minister of Great Britain, passed through the streets of London, some made a different statement that is indicative of the ongoing struggle for change, progress, and a modern social policy that embraces and seeks an expansive social contract for the 21st century.
Protestors, angered at the pomp and ceremony offered to a public official who had rejected a social contract (by rejecting society), lined the streets with their backs turned to Thatcher’s motorcade. The protestors created signs that they placed on their backs that read: “Society Does Exist.” Others held signs up that said:’If Society Doesn’t Exist, Pay for Your Own Funeral.”The soft, silent, and highly ideological…
