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In reply to the discussion: Ms. Sarandon, self-righteous liberals, Hillary Haters, all the rest, SEE what's happening TODAY? [View all]anamnua
(1,493 posts)The scene is Britain. The time is the winter of 1978 (later to be known as 'the winter of discontent) -- a time of mass industrial unrest. The ringleader behind all this unrest was a trade union firebrand called Moss Evans who persisted with his incendiary activism despite warnings galore from sane political commentators about negative electoral implications for the ruling, centrist Labour Party which then had strong links to the trade union movement. The warnings were more than validated in the subsequent general election, in May 1979, which ushered in 10 years of rule by the right wing Friedmanite, Margaret Thatcher.
A shrewd political observer then uttered the defining quote of the era:
'The political education of Moss Evans has been very expensive indeed.'
By the same token the political education of Sarandon and the Sarandonites; Stein and the Steinites; and various other anti-Hillaryites on the left has been very expensive indeed.