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.
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.
Bump!