Posted on 07/04/2024 7:29:27 AM PDT by delta7
Back in 2008, I named a report after what Margaret Thatcher had told me about politics. I began that report by writing:
Time is but a dimension that we divide up to mark its passing. Western thought, unfortunately, is linear, not dynamic. This has been the curse of Western understanding and knowledge.
Time is but a cycle – a circle. Asians are raised with the idea of cycles leading to a more dynamic thinking process. Some see and feel cycles, and some see it as necessary and instinctively understand them. Lady Margaret Thatcher once commented to me that the Conservatives would lose the elections in Great Britain when John Major was running, she said – “It’s just time.”
Lady Thatcher came and spoke at our conference on cycles. She said.
Today’s British election is underway, and we will see a sweep where Labour will replace Conservatives, who have acknowledged that Labour appears headed for victory and urged voters not to hand the party a “supermajority.” Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak insisted “the outcome of this election is not a foregone conclusion.” However, in a message to voters on Wednesday, Sunak said that “if the polls are to be believed, the country could wake up tomorrow to a Labour supermajority ready to wield their unchecked power.” He urged voters to back the Conservatives to limit Labour’s power. The Conservatives have been more concerned about appeasing Anthony Blinken and the American quest to conquer Russia. To hell with the economy or the people. Britain was fully on board with the Globalists, which was precisely OPPOSITE of all the positions to retain independence from Europe, which were the core policies of Lady Thatcher.
I have done some interviews in Britain where the host reluctantly put me on the air because of my connection with Lady Thatcher and their obstinacy about even trying to understand her policies. Many regard her as the most hated Prime Minister, all because they were used to handouts. They claim that she destroyed Britain’s manufacturing industry, and her policies led to mass unemployment. That was absurd, for the world was engulfed in the crisis at the time – not just Britain.
I advised companies that wanted to get into the EU and needed skilled labor to place them in Britain, while I placed those that needed the best tax deals, like airlines, in Ireland. Thatcher had heard that there was this guy rearranging companies and wanted to meet me. She asked me why I placed industries in Britain compared to other European countries. I explained that the cost per employee in other regulations was 40% less in Britain compared to Germany at the time.
Others argued that she presided over 15% interest rates. Again, that was not unique to Britain; it was a global trend. Most of the complaints about Thatcher were based on their ignorance of global trends. No single country can reverse a worldwide recession, no matter who the politician might be. The very best you can do is minimize the volatility and depth of the decline.
I did feel the public would never understand her reasoning regarding the poll tax. She felt that if people had skin in the game, this would limit government waste. But the people, I said, are like dogs. They are satisfied with the scraps from your table, not about jumping on your table and eating the whole meal. Others complain that she sowed the seeds of NHS Privatisation. I think Russia proved, as did ancient Byzantium, that the government is INCAPABLE of running anything efficiently. Those who hated Thatcher seemed to want to be taken care of and had no interest in their country.
What the self-centered haters of Thatcher refuse to understand, no less acknowledge, is that she SAVED Britain. I remember she said if she walked across the Thames River, they would say it was because she did not know how to swim. The coup staged against her by John Major and others was to take Britain into the fantasy land of the Euro. Major took Britain into the ERM and overvalued the pound, which led Soros to make his fortune thanks to John Major and others.
She knew that Tony Blair would win long before there were polls. When I asked why, she told me, “It’s Just Time.” She understood cycles better than any Western politician I have ever met. So while the ignorant still hate Margaret Thatcher, they will now get to see what voting for self-interest will do with promises of more money.
The one thing I have learned from our computer is that if you turn the economy around with these Economic Confidence Model turning points, you will get political change. What is sweeping the world is that 60% of it is going to an election, and WHOEVER is in power is just being thrown out. The Globalists have been trying to take over everything, creating their dream of a one-world government headed by the United Nations with the elimination of our right to vote on anything. Their dream is a global dictatorship. Democracy must end as part of their agenda. It is refreshing to see Macron in trouble, as is Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. World likers Trudeau in Canada, Biden in the USA, and Ursula in the EU have a common goal – war against Russia at all costs and the creation of this one-world government bringing Democracy to an end.
He is legend. That said, I find interesting his latest on the coming unrest.
It is refreshing to see Macron in trouble, as is Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. World likers Trudeau in Canada, Biden in the USA, and Ursula in the EU
Yes, but it does mean each and every one of us has to be involved in something.
If I shake you awake in the middle of the night and ask you what you are fighting for, after you reach for your gun, what do you tell me.
Our Founding Fathers could answer that question.
There’s no reaching the British left about Margaret Thatcher. They just hate her and they don’t care about the facts or nuances of the matter.
There’s no reaching the British left about Margaret Thatcher. They just hate her and they don’t care about the facts or nuances of the matter.
mirror image to trump here. The cancer called progressivism is really Marxism with a fresh new face same ol sh##. Its been infecting the west for decades, slow and methodical. 4 years is not going to fix it we need a political revolution in the right direction
“There’s no reaching the British left about Margaret Thatcher“
British shows going back decades to the present use a portrait of Thatcher some where in the background to telegraph that the onscreen character is a scumbag.
Remind you of anyone closer to home? :)
Move the dream of living at the public's expense one inch further away and they hate you for all eternity.
They still hate Ronald Reagan and always will.
I have 3 dogs. All rescues. Two of them are conservatives. I know because they think on their own and don't need to be told what to do all the time. They have an abundance of free will.
The third one is a 13 yo male terrier that I just rescued a few months ago. I love him to death but he will not use the dog door on his own. He has to be told it's okay and even then a very slight push is needed to get him started. This dog is a leftist that needs to be taken care of while the other two are best friends even though one of them was rescued at the same time as the terrier.
People, I've noticed, are the same way. Some must be told when and what to do. They tend to follow the rules exactly such as never going over the posted speed limit. They are very much creatures of routine and don't like their routine disrupted. They watch CNN, MSDNC, the MSM, and read the extremist left Internet sites like The Daily Beast. They must be told what to think and what to regurgitate on the Internet. They are incapable of independent thought. They "think", if we can call it that, they are being rebels by walking in a parade with their privates hanging out but in reality they have been told to do this before hand and that it's okay to follow their perverse urges in public. We know it's wrong but they have no concept of right and wrong, only what is permitted.
This is the democrat party today. They know their sheeple base quite well and how to manipulate them. They get better at it all the time. I guess this is why I stopped thinking of leftists as human quite some time ago. They are bipeds that look like humans even though they aren't but outside of that, their species is unknown to me.
I just saw posts by the left on Facebook with the street addresses of the conservative Supreme Court Justices.
The caption to the pic with the addresses stated “Do what you want with these.”
😢
And, of course...
‘What Can Be, Unburdened By What Has Been’
In the States they used a portrait of Nixon -- occasionally Reagan.
These people are criminals communicating with other criminals, and the country is infested with them.
The gov is perpetrating this, taken the handcuffs off and given them license to rampage. This apparatus gaslights the people constantly. Blatantly engages in fraud and propaganda with intent to deceive. Its working pretty well.
Now when the fraud, propaganda, and gaslighting are no longer enough.... well then I guess they just fold up their tents, pat each other on the back and say “we gave it a good go ‘ol chap, guess they got us this go-around. Well, there’s always next time”.
Martin is overthinking the problem by an order of magnitude. This is not the result of time being cyclic but of Westerners in general (and Brits and Americans in particular) being made complacent by the success of their species. We have lost the knack of critical thinking and view every political question, not in terms of what is best for the nation, but what is best for me. As a consequence, we vote for our national leaders with the same infantile reasoning we used when voting for Homecoming King and Queen in High School.
The political parties all promise what they know they can never deliver, and the common man sides with Political Party A only until the his anger with the deceit, misdirection and stalling finally boils over, then he switches to Political Party B and the process begin anew.
They're not forever swapping sides because of some Confucian wisdom, they're swapping sides because they lack the intellectual sophistication to recognize which party is the least worst, then joining and sticking with it.
That's why Western politics always swings like a pendulum. Because, in that respect, most Westerners are dunces.
In 1967, Polish mercenary Rafal Ganowicz was asked what it felt like to take human life, “I wouldn’t know, I’ve only ever killed Communists”.
It's been my observation that most Americans believe that they personally are political geniuses.
BTT
Good answer!
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