Saw ant is an anti-capitalist socialist, who takes every opportunity to bash the US, including supporting the OWS. The woman is purely nuts and people in Seattle seem to love her.
I like how she tried to run Boeing out of town for being an evil corporation. They should have left.
Seattle is not in love with her. People are just apathetic and don’t think the City Council can do much of anything.
Businesses control Seattle’s waywardness pretty much, especially when it gets out of hand.
Occasionally the college youth vote is harnessed and of course the school teacher and union vote drive a lot of progressive issues to the headlines but results are always tempered or adjusted over time by practical businesses. For example, the $15/hr minimum wage I think was adjusted to a gradual stepped introduction or such and that was driven by businesses.
Seattle has an undercurrent of pragmatic conservatism that is in the closet because people don’t want the drama or conflict. For example on healthcare, “Yeah sure healthcare for everyone sure sure yeah yeah, ... just don’t send me a bill for it as I have a business to run.” At the end of the day business people have to make a living and they try to do so in a way that is smooth. No high flying emotions or passions, just smooth smart efforts.
Conservatives don’t do well because nothing ‘positive’ comes in their campaign expression. That’s the art of the Left is to always be ‘positive’ in some sense. Where the Left loses is when they go looney which they often do. But Seattle businesses keep a lid on the loons letting them keep their elected office as long as they don’t get cocky. So this is how the Left stays in power in Seattle.
The Bloomberg gun control may or may not slip through. That is one to watch out for and to defeat will require high turnout in areas outside of Seattle.
Southern, Northern and Eastern Washington State are bright red whereas Western Washington is deep blue. A lot of vote fraud is coordinated at the county elections office in Seattle and that keeps the progressives in power in the state governor’s office.
My take is that Sawant won’t last. She got in with a very low turnout with not much opposition. She’s not liked and not popular. But she’s in with the homosexual mayor.
All this will pass.
Right now there is a huge building boom in Seattle. But there is no consumer market to fill in what’s being built. Rents are sky high. Building contractors don’t care if what they are building sells because the loan money is practically free. Occupancy rates are low and will remain so unless it’s all converted to low income with subsidies. Eventually that game will grind to a halt.
As Margie Thatcher wisely said “Socialism is great until you run out of other people’s money”.
Next up from Sawant I think will be rent control and we will see how far she gets with that.