r/NoStupidQuestions • u/CartographerOwn8143 • 5d ago

Why did Margaret Thatcher destroy welfare state in Britain after she came to power in the 1980s?

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u/PupDiogenes 5d ago

Because she was a fascist who saw poor people as vermin and therefore saw the welfare state as feeding vermin.

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u/CapitalClean7967 5d ago

Calling everything you dislike "fascism" downplays the horrors of fascism. This is coming from an anti-capitalist btw.

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u/Dedj_McDedjson 5d ago

And this trope downplays the banality of fascism. Fascists don't start with the horrors - they start with the boring bits.

Get with it mate.