Posted on 04/26/2017 8:49:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A spectre is haunting Seattle—the spectre of Kshama Sawant.
Consider the April 12 Seattle Times editorial. In it, the editorial board called on Mayor Ed Murray to forgo a re-election bid. The reason: The child sexual-abuse allegations recently leveled against him make him vulnerable. “If he runs under that cloud,” the paper reasoned, “it increases the possibility of a Mayor Kshama Sawant, or some other extreme left-wing ideologue, steering this booming city wildly off course.”
This was an odd argument to make, especially since Councilmember Sawant is almost certainly not running for mayor this year.
In the swell of resistance that has emerged in the 100 days since Donald Trump’s presidency began, the Socialist Alternative councilwoman, elected in 2013, now looks like a harbinger. With her support, the city passed groundbreaking legislation that implemented a citywide $15-an-hour minimum wage in 2014. She breezed to re-election in 2015. Then, democratic socialist Bernie Sanders won Washington’s March 2016 Democratic presidential primary with a landslide 72.7 percent. At the same time, polls surfaced revealing that a majority of millennials now reject capitalism.
In 2017, socialism has become anything but a dirty word in Seattle. The people-powered movements, leftist agitation, and Sawant-style politics that establishment Seattle Democrats might have previously written off as a fluke have become increasingly impossible to ignore. In fact, on a regular basis, it is literally in their faces.
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Keeping in mind that the Seattle Times is a FAR LEFT RED rag, warning about and EVEN FARTHER LEFT COMMIE.
Seattle going communist would be perfect. Let it become the new Detroit.
To the ramparts, comrades! To the ramparts!
Frankenstein’s Monster is turning on its creator, it seems.
There is much to be learned from cities like Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, Los Angeles et. al. They portend the future off all American cities, and it is not pretty.
“There is much to be learned from cities like Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, Los Angeles et. al. They portend the future off all American cities, and it is not pretty.”
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It’s not just the big cities——smaller places like Lynn.MA and Islip,NY where MS-13 is active are also becoming dangerous.
We are heading for barbed wire and gated communities like South Africa.
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Heading for? Or almost there?
You’re correct as these people are going to run out of things to loot in the cities. Sooner or later they’ll come to the suburbs.
These folks are pissed off at Nancy Pelosi because she supposedly supports capitalism.
Normally, I might say something about “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”, but not in this case. They are all nuts.
Stalinists vs. Trotskyites. We know how that ended!
I think even the Seattle Times vaguely understands that Kshama Sawant actually wants to destroy the city. Her main goal is to punish prosperity and success, and turn the entire city into a crime-infested ghetto. She wants mandatory homeless camps and drug “rehab” centers in every neighborhood. She wants low-income housing in every neighborhood, to punish the successful.
I spent a fruitful, productive decade there before it got really crazy. It was always a pretty leftwing town but the new crowd is like socialists always are, starry-eyed to contemplate plundering the wealth that the horrible capitalists have created and because they're horrible, make sure that nobody can ever do it again. That isn't hard to do. I'd actually encourage it as a signal lesson in political stupidity if it didn't promise to take the rest of that beautiful state down with it.
Had a long conversation with an old friend last night who is depressed about having to sell his place there because real estate taxes are sucking him dry. He was the owner and CEO of an IT company before he retired, around since the whole thing started and no small contributor to the massive wealth that city now enjoys. When he goes, and it's a certainty now, he won't be replaced by another. Moochers and looters, Andy. I told you so.
How do you see the economy faring? From what I hear it’s still booming. Also are more people leaving Seattle or coming in and who’s is coming and going?
They say that it’s going to be another Detroit, but I don’t believe that. Detroit was caused by white flight, I don’t see that happening there.
I think it’ll end up more like a Stockholm.
bttt
I have a young cousin who recently married. She was born and raised here in Alabama. She never was as conservative as most Alabamans but was more in the moderate category.
Shortly after her marriage, they moved to Seattle. She has changed and not for the better.
Before the move, she never posted anything political on Facebook. Now she posts Anti-Trump liberal garbage. She supports the importation of “refugees” and open borders. She was a proud supporter of Killary and, after the election, spouted how she was still with Hillary & “Love Trumps Hate”.
She has alienated a good part of our family & even some of her college friends. My Aunt, who is her Grandmother, was very close to her. Now, my Aunt doesn’t like most of her Facebook posts anymore & finally admitted to us that she has had it with my cousin.
She still loves her, as we all do, but she can no longer tolerate her continual drifting to the left. My cousin’s parents aren’t thrilled with it either. Unfortunately, her leftism is having a detrimental influence on her brother, who is still in college.
A while back, she proudly posted some pics from a “naked” bike ride in Seattle. Obviously, her parents & Grandmother weren’t thrilled.
I realize that you are from Seattle & I’m honestly not trying to offend you. I know there are good people in Seattle, some on this site. But that city has not been a good influence on her, to say the least.
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