Is Every Ism

about perpetuating itself to the exclusion of all else?
Modern feminism started moderately
with the suffragists and more militantly became suffragettes,
and still the campaign was more for wives of husbands
who owned houses to be able to vote
than for female servants to be enfranchised.
Like Marxists, rich women found their conviction
in 'taking control of the means of production',
with their wealth as its focus.

Thatcherism was less about saying 'everyone else is wrong',
more about acting so. When the press called Thatcher to account
she denied all ill effect of her belief, by insisting that
'My actions are common sense', and in in the next reshuffle
(they happened with the frequency of No 10 buses)
she would move sideways the ministers who was unpopular
because her actions. For a long time this disguised from everyone
including her that she was the problem.
Control through evasion and unreadability worked.
Now when British governments pass acts hostile
to the populous they extend Thatcherism,
by refusing to put up speakers in any and all media,
unless they have caused extreme agitation worth condemning.
They give statements instead, thus leaving the opposed
to talk among themselves as if they were not to be listened to.