Class Hatred and Bad Memories of Thatcher

Juan Cole muses on Class Hatred and Bad Memories of Thatcher.

Cole reports that:

The hatred for the late Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister, among a broad segment of the British public has manifested itself in visible and undeniable ways in the week after her death, but these are not highlighted on American television. The status quo corporate media are afraid of admitting that policy-makers who favor the rich and punish the middle and working classes are deeply hated by the latter. Dead leaders have to be represented on television as being revered by the entirety of the public (an imaginary public for which the corporate anchors can serve as ventriloquists). That many Americans despise Ronald Reagan is likewise an unmentionable on the airwaves.

The ideologocal state apparatus cannot deviate from the illusion that the neo-liberalism made Britain better. They must educate the under-class to correct thinking.