It’s pretty much the case.
The IAW, for all the talk of partnership with Boeing, put a full size bronze statue of picketers rallying around, with little children, around a burn barrel.
No joke.
My cousin is a City Councilman in Everett. He was once asked, by the local Democrat Party, in an interview for endorsement, what his stand was on Peak Oil. Not kidding.
Washington State, from essentially Lake Chelan west to the sea is sort of a farm for the insane. It’s semi-functional, to a point, and the inmates are allowed to travel up and down the coast, which is essentially part of the same collective asylum.
The middle class is running, not walking from Seattle. Public school system is beyond fixing. When the Supe tries to close schools (34!) to stop the flow of red ink, the moonbats RAGE in a way that should be filmed and put on Animal Planet. The Superintendent position here has been a revolving door. The last semi-effective one was a Republican ex-General, who ended up dying prematurely in office of cancer.
The other massive joke around here is that there is zero rapid transit, and we have the third worst traffic in the nation, first worst per capita. The first time they tried to put in light rail, they voted in a levy of $2BB. What did that buy: studies. Not kidding. Not a shovel full of dirt was turned, not one.
So, the next time it came up, there was healthy skepticism. Seattle tried to extend their pathetic monorail system (less than one mile of track, and it cost $4.00 per rider, up and back) which was a legacy of the World’s Fair. When they built it, the morons who designed it let themselves be cowed by one of the building owners, who forced the city to build the tracks too clost together in one place. As such, two trains can’t pass at that point, or they jam together.
This happened last year, resulting in only one track and one train being in service now.
Truly, the only other places more feckless and insane politically are probably Providence, RI and Philadelphia, PA.
I say that, right? At least Philly has a rapid transit system.
Even cities in China have rapid transit, as does Portland, OR and San Jose, CA.
Sorry for the rant, but if my family situation were different, I’d get the hell out.
The problem with the PacNW is that it is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. Kiss of death, though, because it seems that liberals are somehow attracted to seawater. You find them predominantly located at the coast, after all.
I’m a born-and-raised Seattle refugee. One of the happiest moments in my life was seeing Snoqualmie Pass in the rear-view mirror, knowing I wouldn’t be back (even to visit) for years.
I love the West Coast, but King County is nuts. I’ll probably move to Southern Oregon (still conservative) when I can.
I’m not a flaming anti-union guy like so many on this forum, but the statue outside the union hall is an outrage. A cool bird, a guy holding a propeller or a wing model, even some guy in an old-time flight suit looking to the sky, anything... But a statue of guys on strike and their kids cavorting around? Give me a f’ng break.
Don’t get me started on how I STILL had to pay a $350 car tax AFTER the monorail was cancelled!
We visited recently, and had a great time. Stayed right on the water, downtown, and took the ferry to Bainbridge. Did lots of touristy stuff, ate lots of good food. Got into the Columbia Club and had a few drinks in the early evening of a beautiful day, and the view was simply magnificent.
But yeah, you could tell the city was run by libs, just from the way the place was overrun by “urban outdoorsmen”.