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Fed Up in Seattle
City Journal ^ | 6/15/2018 | Christopher F Rufo

Posted on 06/17/2018 3:20:07 PM PDT by RightGeek

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Please read the full article for all the details, but the Seattle liberals have been mugged by reality.


1 posted on 06/17/2018 3:20:07 PM PDT by RightGeek
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Evergreen college suddenly has a bunch of empty dorm space they could use for the homeless. Plus they would come in handy to use for rent a mobs.


2 posted on 06/17/2018 3:28:40 PM PDT by lurk
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Just overheard some guy in the supermarket talking on the phone saying that if they raise the minimum wage here again he is going to have to start laying off a lot of his workers. He said, what is happening in California and Seattle is going to spread here.


3 posted on 06/17/2018 3:35:31 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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One amusing video I saw was the avowed socialist city councilwoman trying to talk at a press conference, and the union workmen in construction uniforms were lined up next to the cameras and around.
Every time she tried to speak, they shouted “No head tax, no head tax!”
She tried to yell them down, and they yelled her down. When she was silent, they were silent. No matter how short the sound bite, their message got through.


4 posted on 06/17/2018 3:35:48 PM PDT by tbw2
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Seattle liberals are being shocked to reality by liberalism itself. Delicious.


5 posted on 06/17/2018 3:51:21 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: All
Click the Pics & Text


6 posted on 06/17/2018 3:53:23 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA/KAG!!!)
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“He said, what is happening in California and Seattle is going to spread here.”

And where on earth is “here”?

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7 posted on 06/17/2018 3:54:57 PM PDT by Mears
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Believe it not, the same sentiments are emerging in San Francisco and Portland.


8 posted on 06/17/2018 3:57:05 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Loved this comment after the article:

“Seattle’s people like to dabble in Marxism as a luxury, but dump it when it threatens their bourgeois life.”


9 posted on 06/17/2018 3:58:51 PM PDT by JZelle
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There is no ‘moderate’ liberal who will dismantle a single experimental program which has failed. They will always continue it, perhaps throw more money at it, but otherwise demand absolutely no improvement from the program.

That's a very key starting point. All the analysis of how ultra-liberal city councils will be brought back under control is pure unadulterated fantasy. Ten years from now, every socialist can be tossed on the council, and not one thing will change in Seattle. Money will still be wasted on programs which are ineffective (or worse, even counterproductive to the stated goals.)

This is how liberals operate on the national level, state level, county level and even city level. Zero accountability for any failures with ‘successes’ which could have been duplicated for a tenth of the cost just handing out cash.

There's only one way to fix a city which has gone down in the liberal spiral, that is for aggressive campaigns by actual conservatives who repudiate every single failed program and make it their first target when they get into office.

This is the problem Republicans across the country are facing. Because Republican leadership has this fixation that they can be not quite as liberal as Democrats and win. That maybe they just need to tweak programs that don't work and they'll magically work again. That they can just cut the budgets a little and everything will turn into rainbows and fairy dust.

How did Trump win the White House? Well, first and foremost, he ran against all the liberals in the race IN HIS OWN PARTY. Then once the field was clear, he went against the remaining liberals who were running in other parties. Ultimately, I like to tell the fiction that he won the White House because who in their right mind would vote for Hillary? The truth is that he took conservative stances on issue after issue and he followed through with them.

Perhaps Freepers on the ground out there in Seattle know of conservatives who are running as conservatives and targeting all these insane ideas promising to toss those failed programs out with the trash. If there is, great, there's still hope up there. In California, we have little of that hope. What few conservatives there are are termed out of office far too quickly, beat each other up going for diminishing space in higher offices, and ultimately have to ‘retire’ from California politics.

Why? Are there no conservatives in the state? Of course there are. But they're undercut over and over again by surrender monkeys in the state party who run from every single controversy that comes along and then come up with ‘brilliant’ ideas for others to ‘save’ California.

Seattle, I wish you the best of luck ejecting the liberals. California has them infesting everything. But trust me on this; there's only one way to do so - target the stupidity that EVERYONE can agree doesn't work. Hold firm to the promise of dismantling completely those programs. That's the only path that leads to a solution and not simply watching business after business flee the area, sucking away billions in jobs.

10 posted on 06/17/2018 4:02:53 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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I am not surprised about the Ironworkers, they are a pretty scrappy bunch.


11 posted on 06/17/2018 4:06:44 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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Hawaii


12 posted on 06/17/2018 4:10:07 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Mahalo nui loa !!!!!!!!!!

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13 posted on 06/17/2018 4:13:11 PM PDT by Mears
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Mugged by Marxism.


14 posted on 06/17/2018 4:13:31 PM PDT by aquila48
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Respectfully, won’t happen. I was playing catch on the sidewalk in my brother’s middle-class Seattle neighborhood, with his two boys. One of their pals asked me how much approval I had of Obama. When my nephew informed the kids that I was a registered Republican, they looked at me like an escaped zoo animal. Not rude, not mean, just something they had never encountered, except on TV.


15 posted on 06/17/2018 4:13:33 PM PDT by jttpwalsh
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Bump!


16 posted on 06/17/2018 4:15:16 PM PDT by Enterprise
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"and dockworkers in the Ballard neighborhood physically collared councilman Mike O’Brien and threw him out of a party at the Pacific Fishermen Shipyard."

Holy mackerel.

17 posted on 06/17/2018 4:15:49 PM PDT by Enterprise
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I seem to remember it was just a few upstart colonials who rejected the King’s rule and everyone around the world was sure that the little rebellion would be put down quickly.

I understand how easy it is to surrender. I live in California. A registered Republican here is rarer than in Washington, and in liberal enclaves, almost unheard of. Surprising what you can do when you’re the only one speaking with a rational voice in pointing out the liberal emperor is in fact wearing no clothes.


18 posted on 06/17/2018 4:23:19 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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And some empty school buildings - but these bums/vagrants personal hygiene leaves a lot to be desired; then too their bathroom habits are worse.


19 posted on 06/17/2018 4:24:23 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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I have family there.

No they haven’t.

Nice scenery, but unless you make well north of six figures it is impossible to have a normal life there.

And the homeless camps all over the city are something to behold.


20 posted on 06/17/2018 4:26:59 PM PDT by redgolum
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