Posted on 04/18/2026 7:33:38 AM PDT by Starman417
Maggie Thatcher, easily one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, was a no-nonsense woman. She became Prime Minister of the UK in 1979 and would rescue her nation from the economic quagmire created by the policies of her leftist predecessors.
Maggie was the daughter of a merchant. And as one might expect as the daughter of someone who had to deal with customers and vendors and regulators and all the while make sure there was something left in the bank at the end of the month, she was a straightforward and pragmatic leader.
For someone born almost exactly 100 years ago, she had a vision of government and culture that we could use more of today. She was something of a combination of Nostradamus, Mark Twain and a Cassandra rolled into one.
Her thoughts and observations provide an extraordinary insight into many of our problems today.
And the clarity began even before she was Prime Minister. On the day before her historic election she said this: “If a Government can't protect citizens and their property against violence, vandalism and theft, there is little point in having a government at all.” If anything resonates with Americans today it’s the fundamental failure of government to do exactly that.
In blue cities and states across America we see examples of career criminals regularly unleashed on their communities only to later kill or rape innocents. From suddenly being found not competent to stand trial to having their sentences slashed because of their age or background, American blood is spilling because Democrats care more about the “rights” of criminals than they do about the lives of innocent citizens. Thatcher cared about innocent citizens: “I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives of other people forfeit their own right to live.”
She also had a clarity on the economics of leftism, saying “Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay - that 'someone else' is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money.”
Maggie clearly understood what most American politicians don’t, which is that government can spend only as much as citizens produce. Only through taxes or IOUs, can the government spend a single penny. Given that our national debt is almost $40 trillion and our unfunded liabilities are approaching $100 trillion financed by a GDP of $30 trillion, another of her quotes drives home the reality: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
As a merchant’s daughter, Thatcher understood what so many of our career politicians don’t, because so many of them have never had jobs or been part of an enterprise that actually created wealth – and just to be clear, lawyers rarely if ever actually create wealth or anything else of value. “We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than hard work and satisfying your customers.” She hit the bullseye with: “The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.”
Her observations went beyond just justice and economics however. She recognized a moral cancer when she saw one. “Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.” Her prescience presaged the cancer of DEI a generation before it began wreaking widespread damage on the American Republic.
Along those same lines, she anticipated the evolution of the left’s political MO beginning with the ascent of Barack Obama, where every critique, criticism or disagreement was labeled racism, then expanded to every element of American politics: Homophobic, Islamophobic, Sexist, etc. She clearly recognized the tactics: “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”
The Iron Lady addressed what would become one of America’s biggest problems when someone like Donald Trump, who is not a creature of the Swamp and wanted to upset the apple cart, came into office:
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““Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.””
It’s what made her an exception among women, and what made her a great leader.
Unfortunately most women tend to be driven more by feelings than the logic of cause and effect, as a result they make bad decision and thus poor leaders.
The Margaret Thatchers are few and far between.
The great Margaret Thatcher. As a fellow woman, I have always admired her. The feminists would do better to admire her than a Hillary Clinton.
One of my heroes. Obviously.
The Brits got Maggie; we got the PIAPS-Hildabeast and Commie-La.
Maggie was a politician who is female. Hilary and Kamala are female politicians.
Thatcher and Reagan were great friends and a great leadership team. The UK is far from having anything near like that now. The Iron Lady. We need many more like her here in the US too. IMO
Thatcher and Reagan were great friends and a great leadership team.
You also had Pope John Paul II, and Helmut Kohl. The only “thorn” at the time was Mitterand.
I wish Churchill was here in charge of the UK now. Him and Trump would be something together.
Margaret Thatcher is one of the great examples I use when trying to explain that we don’t need women’s liberation groups because those capable of leading will find their way to leadership positions by their displays of leadership in other places.
I agree that leaders can be made, but in these politically charged times, women want to be leaders for all the wrong reasons. Leaders need morals, without them they are despots.
I do think there are women who could be president, but they are not willing to pay the cost.
Phyllis Schlafly was another great example.
And now, sadly, Brits are poorer than citizens of every US state.
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