Were Reagan and Thatcher the Last Nation-State Leaders? | Clarissa's Blog
"Both Thatcher and Reagan relied on the idea that the state was no longer responsible for the welfare of the people. However, they still wanted to control morality through the legislative means of the state apparatus. And that’s just not going to work."
And the people who inherited these views, the Reaganites and Thatcherites themselves, what horrible, noxious pieces of work they turned out to be! They invested in a whole atmosphere of being quick to try to exert moral control, whilst actively pulling out the rug from under people. Of course this is nasty and spiteful, but what used to bother me was that it was philosophically inconsistent.
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