| Your analogy of some random stranger on the street is so fatuous I'm just going to ignore it to save you any further embarrassment. As for "Western society", that you modestly imagine yourself as a representative of/spokesperson for, I'm British. I have never met a single person in my entire life who had a positive opinion of Churchill, with views ranging from contempt to indifference. Outside of Conservative/Establishment circles, among people who know more about him than a handful of speeches he made, Churchill is rightly loathed. He was an objectively bad person. He was supported during WWII because, unlike others in the cowardly Quisling British Conservative Establishment, he actually wanted to fight Hitler, albeit for his sense of 'supremacy' over Germany/Hitler than any particular morality. Once Hitler was defeated, in spite Churchill's ego-maniacal interference in the war effort that caused countless unnecessary deaths and catastrophes, he was rejected by the people in every single general election. Unfortunately for Britain, and for Obama's grandfather who Churchill tortured along with thousands of others, the "democratic" British electoral system allowed him to become PM again, despite receiving far fewer votes than his opponent. Sounds like an election Stalin would be proud of. |