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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.