Following the death of Margaret Thatcher, I have found it really unpleasant, almost sinister, to see the amount of abuse and vitriol being heaped on the memory of a woman who was last in power almost a quarter of a century ago.
She was of course a polarising politician, and I myself do not hold her in as high regard as many do. But what has struck me is the apparent age of some of the individuals who are busy pouring out their venom. Many would not have been born when she left office and many more would have been busy with the play dough in infant school.
It is almost as if they are following a prepared script, as if they had been taught to have a certain opinion, an opinion handed down like a tablet of stone.
They are entitled to their views of course, but how liberating it would be for them if they were to do their own thinking. Interest in politics is a good thing, but this type of behaviour is more to do with closing your mind down and meekly accepting a pre-ordained point of view. I would have hoped for far more from the young!
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