She was the mother of every problem that the West is facing.
We are facing the inevitable consequences of Thatcherism, and no one has a viable electable alternative.
In short, the West is fucked and *more* neo liberalism can’t get us out of it. Trickle down economics is the greatest lie she ever told.
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This presents an interesting problem. Reagan and Thatcher used populist discontent to rise to power, but doing so is a rejection of Burkean conservatism. Slowly the revolutionary spirit of populism ate away at any conservative moderation in the parties, until all that was left was a brain-dead populist like Donald Trump. Conservative partys are important as a check on radical progressive plans that step too far into idealistic nonsense incompatible with reality. If the right can’t be a realist political project rooted in history and the limits of government plans, then it’s just a destructive progressive force with xenophobic and nationalist ideology. I wonder if there is a way we can nurture a better opposition?
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She was the mother of every problem that the West is facing.
We are facing the inevitable consequences of Thatcherism, and no one has a viable electable alternative.
In short, the West is fucked and *more* neo liberalism can’t get us out of it. Trickle down economics is the greatest lie she ever told.
This presents an interesting problem. Reagan and Thatcher used populist discontent to rise to power, but doing so is a rejection of Burkean conservatism. Slowly the revolutionary spirit of populism ate away at any conservative moderation in the parties, until all that was left was a brain-dead populist like Donald Trump. Conservative partys are important as a check on radical progressive plans that step too far into idealistic nonsense incompatible with reality. If the right can’t be a realist political project rooted in history and the limits of government plans, then it’s just a destructive progressive force with xenophobic and nationalist ideology. I wonder if there is a way we can nurture a better opposition?