“I didn’t say ‘contempt for Thatcher’”
I know. You said holding up a vote honoring Thatcher demonstrates the contempt Dems have for the USA. But I can’t see how it could, unless you think Thatcher somehow represents something essential about the USA. Which I can’t see. Actually, it would seem to imply that she had done a poor job as prime minister of her country, if what she is essentially in the cast of another country. It would be as if she were what lefty Brits accused Tony Blair of being, namely our lapdog.
“If the Dems won’t honor an ally”
You seem to shift ground, here. Nevermind failing to honor an ally never possibly amounting to show the Dems’ contempt “more than anything.” I can see a million more obvious proofs of their contempt for our country, or at least our country as it used to be, than the rebuking of a former ally. You are off the deep end, equating the snubbing of an ally with contempt for country. There is no identity of allies. We are not them; they are not us.
Some make much of transatlantic sympathy. There are still and used to be many more fanatics for the “Anglo-American Alliance.” They were apt to be of that party you mentioned as having contempt for this country, or to be what we term “neoconservatives,” which I don’t closely associate with the essential USA.
I am not shifting ground; I’m clarifying. The way I see it, to be so low as to snub an ally is to also dishonor one’s own country. There are certainly numerous other instances of the Dems displaying contempt for the USA, but this is the one that applies in this thread.