[IWE] Maggie Thatcher - what a democracy looks like

[Ashton Brown]

Andrew Sullivan offers this video clip, to remind us how unutterably 
Stupid the US has become - on basic shit like ... debate itself.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/what-real-accou.html

/The exchange above was one of her lowest points, and she had many high 
ones. The reason I'm posting this is to remind American voters what a 
real democracy sounds like.

The horrifying sequestering of Sarah Palin from a press conference and 
anything like this kind of public interrogation is a scandal. Thatcher 
was already prime minister, about to be re-elected in a landslide when 
this debate happened. And she was happy to be subjected to this from an 
average citizen. This is what feminism looks like in action - from 
citizen to leader. It's important to remember how deep a decline in 
female political equality Sarah Palin represents./