Posted on 04/09/2013 6:19:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Along with Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II, Margaret Thatcher was a giant of our era and, indeed, of history. These three leaders brought about the fall of Soviet communism and the resurgence of political and economic liberty around the world. Like Reagan, Thatcher was one of those rare individuals who was both a movement leader and an effective political leader. It is one thing to have firm ideas, quite another to have the skills to bring them into being and for them to endure after you leave office. The current economic crisis has put Margaret Thatcher’s ideas and ideals under siege even though this disaster resulted from ignoring her and Reagan’s fundamental free market principles.
Thatcher’s rise was astonishing. The notion that a grocer’s daughter could become leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister in class-ridden Britain would have been preposterous. In business it’s usually outsiders who fundamentally shakeup an existing industry or creates an entirely new ones. In politics it takes a severe crisis for an outlier to emerge. Though he had a pedigreed background, Winston Churchill was very much the outsider, intensely distrusted and disliked by his own party and much of the public. Only when Britain’s very existence was at stake could he reach the summit. In Thatcher’s case it was an acute economic and social crisis that enabled her to emerge.
It’s hard to appreciate today how desperate Britain’s condition was before Thatcher took office. Its economy was a laughing stock, the perennial sick man of Europe. Strikes were endemic and union bosses effectively governed the country. Her Conservative Party had long ago made its peace with the welfare state and the ethos of high spending and high taxes.
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The Prescient Margaret Thatcher Predicted The Failure Of The Euro In Forbes, October, 1992
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Margaret Thatcher: We Desperately Need More Leaders Like Her!
I agree. But where are we going to get them. They certainly won’t come out of the putrid ultra liberal democratic ranks.
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher gave the western democracies a second chance but the moocher class and commie lovers threw it away.
May they both rest in peace - they gave us their best.
Farage, Hannan, Palin.
Some others.
Look for backlash down the road against all things “liberal”. Such conservative leadership will emerge from there.
Which is precisely why the Left shoots them down any way they can. If they can't find a scandal to nail a conservative with, they create one. Take something out of context and repeat-repeat-repeat their own over-reactions.
Such conservative leadership will emerge from there.
I certainly hope you are correct.
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