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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Worldwide communism having a resurgence in this generation.
That’s fine if they want to do it. That’s what federalism is all about. Just don’t expect the other states to fund the resulting catastrophe.
It may have gone into hiding just after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the school teachers never stopped.
You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands
They misspelled...
...socialist leader ready to ruin...
And ruin
The problem for the commies is that they don’t have the federal piggy bank at their disposal.
Look at the kalifornia “miracle” not so much without billions from DC
Perhaps, till they have to pay for all the “free” stuff😂
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Is Minneapolis not iconic enough to draw mention?
lol and where is the Soviet Union now???
No matter what it leads to ruin, even the little despot with no bad mustache is learning that
This is nothing new for Seattle. Seattle is as left as it can be already without declaring itself a Peoples’ Republic and banning federal employees and Republicans from the city.
Does it make any difference where the Soviet Union is now if our own people are clamoring to emulate it?
I asked him recently why the old shops and restaurants in his neighborhood keep closing down (he posts a running commentary on Facebook about places that permanently shut down), and his response was “Greed.”
He’s so effing retarded. I so glad my mom made the decision to sell my grandmother’s house and get the hell out of there permanently.
Its a shame because the PNW is beautiful. We keep losing the gems of North American cities to these a-holes (San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle).
Our nation was sold by obummer and cemented by bythen.
But they do expect it, and other states will either directly or indirectly fund the catastrophe. And that makes the first two sentences of your post irrelevant.
A heat map of the local and state governments around the nation currently poised to fall into far-left hands, might wake up American non-leftist voters.
At least at the moment.
In any event, the community organizers who are using the useful idiots in the long march are not concerned about the costs involved in destroying the existing government.
“... and his response was “Greed.”
No, it’s the other mortal sin, “ENVY”.
These leeches are failures and they envy the successful and they’ll do anything to bring them down with their warped sense of “justice”, which to them means equality of results.
Tocqueville put this “disease” in very eloquent terms...
“There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.”
EVEN AMAZON CAN MOVE.
AND ORACLE
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