Posted on 11/01/2025 7:07:23 AM PDT by Libloather
While national media obsess over New York City’s lurch toward socialism under its rising star, Zohran Mamdani, few have noticed that Seattle is preparing its own ideological twin. What Mamdani is doing in Queens, progressive Katie Wilson is poised to replicate in the Pacific Northwest.
Wilson, an activist with almost no executive experience but deep roots in Seattle’s far-left circles, leads incumbent Mayor Bruce Harrell in new polling. Her rise mirrors the political realignment sweeping New York: a movement powered by younger, fiercely ideological activists who view capitalism as the root of all injustice and government as the cure.
A recent DHM Research poll shows Seattle voters are ready to hand City Hall to a slate of socialists and progressives. Wilson leads Harrell, while left-wing candidates are favored to win both open City Council seats and the city attorney’s race — the only citywide position still held by a Republican. It’s an echo of the Mamdani coalition in New York, where Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidates have seized power from the traditional Democrats who once defined the city’s pragmatism.
The DSA, which backs Mamdani, has long treated Seattle as a second stronghold. Its influence was cemented a decade ago when the Seattle City Council turned "Tax Amazon!" and "$15 now!" into national slogans. Mamdani picked up the same playbook: vilify wealth, demand redistribution and sell it as "justice." Wilson, too, proudly identifies with Mamdani’s brand of urban socialism. Like him, she wants to tax businesses and the wealthy to fund "social housing" — government-owned apartment blocks managed by the city.
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Red Radio (KTTH) 770 host, Jason Rantz, gives an accurate description of the voters driving the Katie Wilson election. It describes a large segment of Seattle’s voters who are totally ignorant of economics and kept there by Leftist educators and a derelict media. There is a movement afoot for the wealthy to escape Seattle as has Jeff Bezos who has left the high-taxed, decaying state of Washington. Washington’s recent new 7 percent capital gains tax adds to the multiple burdens the state has imposed on business.
The businesses contend with the rising cost of operating space, rampant break-ins, vandalism, drug use, violence, homelessness and the increased minimum wage. Starbucks, which is based out of Seattle, closed at least six Starbucks locations in the city over safety concerns in 2022.
The government FHA loans for housing have given the illegal migrants in this sanctuary city ready access to housing. This has created a housing shortage that has driven up the cost of housing. Workers are moving out of Seattle where the cost of housing is not as extreme and employers let them work out of home. This trend has been found to be a bad thing for productivity. Most of the problems driving a business out of Seattle are the result of government incompetence.
Don’t forget the scrawny Somali communist in Minneapolis. A cohort of America hating Ilhan Omar.
That’s just the thing. He’s NOT a failure. He has a very successful business. No one in the family can understand his thought process other than to say liberalism is a mental disorder.
Who were both controlled and funded by the Nazi collaborator Schwartz Gyorgy.
We need a new General Augusto Pinochet now more than ever before.
Curious, what’s his business? And is he gay?
The feckless GOP won’t execute the mass deportations required (even though they campaigned on it) to make life more affordable for the working class, so this is coming in.
Seattle went left a long time ago. They have a statue of Lenin.
Super gay. I won’t be specific as he’s kind of famous in the area (at least in his own mind), so I’ll just say it’s a retail shop.
“Super gay.”
That explains his politics.
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