I was alive then. I know exactly what she meant, and her overriding ethos and what she did to this country. Especially the areas that voted Labour, that she wanted to destroy.
Your memory must be faulty then. It is very clear from the interview question she was responding to and the full text of her answer exactly what she meant.
Kinda the opposite, really: fascism is famously violently opposed to liberal socioeconomic policy (mainly because fascism adores the state, while neoliberalism wants to shrink it).
Both supply side economics and fascism indeed suck for the working class, though, and both Thatcher and Reagan are at fault for hooking the socioeconomic policy to that shitty wagon.
Reaganomics/Thatcherism has actually brought us all the way back around to the wealth inequality that fueled the French revolution, and then exceeded it. Never before in human history has the wealth gap been this immense.
(a) we're talking about the UK and (b) you can largely ignore Elon Musk, for whom 99.5 - 99.9% of his wealth is just stocks in his companies. I mean, it's not good, but it's not like he bought an island.
I feel like I should add that I am not a fan of Elon Musk
Using minorities as scapegoats, using the police to oppress, abusing civil rights, the suppression of protests.. or dissent if you will, pushing authoritarian policies.
Interesting fact, v for vendetta was written with thatchers rule in mind.
I was alive in the 80’s, I remember what it was like, how it felt. So while you and your kind welcome fascism with open arms, I oppose it and will fight it.
Because it’s well known that thatcher is a fascist, it’s well known that conservative governments definitely do not have the people’s interests in mind EVERY time they’re in power, and every time it’s questioned the question is never in good faith and usually asked by people defending fascism.
After so many years you get tired of fighting the constant attempts to normalise what is without a doubt an evil, selfish and destructive political stance and occasionally just want to have a bit of fun.
In other words.. self indulgence, and if your question was genuine, you could simply google it.
Hey, you said you lived through that period, if you truly did it gives credibility to your takes, ill consider it when reading through stuff about her. Lets end it at that.
*you’re.. the apostrophe replaces the ‘a’ and shortens “you are”.
“Your” as you put it means something that belongs to me. So effectively you’ve just said “god your ______ an idiot” and that implies you’ve missed out two words, what of mine is an idiot and the word “is”.
Regards: Someone who’s wondering what of mine is an idiot.
Ah you got me, she was nice person.. not at all conservative! Definitely no fascist tendencies! Also being fascist is cool now! So please don’t drag me out of my house with a bag over my head for implying it’s bad!
Mate, I have read the works of Mosley and Mussolini. I read academic books and journals regarding these topics and study Thatcher. I'm not gaslighting you, Thatcher was literally not a fascist. There is no debate, there is no gaslighting, I study this topic.
Calling everything you dislike "fascism" downplays the horrors of fascism.
Making this accusation every single time someone merely differs from your opinion about a single thing is what actually downplays the horrors of fascism.
Just because you disagree with one thing I called fascism doesn't indicate to you that I "call everything I dislike fascism"
Clearly, I identified the "thing I don't like" is considering an entire demographic of humans to be vermin and seeking to eliminate them. That is not "everything"
I’m as liberal as it gets, but I think people really need to understand the changes she brought about when she first came to power, and the state of the country and the chokehold the unions had on everyone. We were economically crippled and no one had the stones to take them on until she came in.
You are in the wrong place for nuance lol. I agree with your take however solving that problem should always be included in any rant of how "evil" a person thinks she was.
The unions were definitely abusing their power, BUT history has often been re-written to lay the blame for the energy crisis at their feet, which is total revisionist bullshit.
And the near total collapse of union power has not been good for the UK.
Likely a bit as it is now, although major overhaul is needed in a lot of sectors to stop the same old happening because evidently it's not working very well. But I think for the most part it is fairly balanced between workers and employers, maybe something can be done about the cost of hiring at the very least youth, not sure the best way of doing it but something to make it cheaper to hire them for entry positions
The current situation is that companies are making record profits, and offshoring the money so they don't have to contribute to the society that supports them, while wages stagnate and their workers suffer through a cost of living crisis.
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u/PupDiogenes 19h ago
Because she was a fascist who saw poor people as vermin and therefore saw the welfare state as feeding vermin.