Thatcher is in the past
I’ve figured out what bothers me about leftists gloating over Thatcher’s death.
There’s the unseemliness of expressing it much too fast. Everybody, even your bitterest enemy, has the right to bury their dead in peace. But I knew I had a problem with that and it didn’t feel like the whole problem.
The rest of it is that she’s gone. Over and done with. It’s useless to dance on her grave. If you want to support a humane world, do it here and now. Jeer at the so-called progressives who can’t say they’ll stand against Obama’s Republican budget. (Via the essential fatster.) Jeer at Obama for producing a budget that would have done the Iron Lady herself proud.
Feel-good jeering to get an ego boost is repulsive.
This. Wish I had read it at the time.
Mona aka Wonk the Vote on October 11th, 2013 at 00:30