Posted on 07/28/2019 10:04:09 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Love it
watching them implode is best show evah
That’s a fact. I suggest that we give all of them a spiked baseball bat and let them have at it.
I work in a field of employment that brings me into contact with the public....both straight citizens and criminals.
Last night I had a man come up to me at our annual parade.
He identified himself as a former board member of the Union Gospel Mission which is a Christian based outreach/feeding program for homeless drug addicts and street drunks.
They help street people and prison inmates who are returning to society.
He railed against the current political.climate and the policies espoused by the Democrat socialists and told me how when the mayor rolled by in the parade that he yelled at her to hire more cops and stop allowing all the criminals, drug addicts, and insane people to rule downtown.
Now, if the current political.class has lost the support of Union Gospel Mission folks, this next election could be very interesting....but I don’t believe there are enough true choices to be made between insane leftism and rational policy types.
May take 2 or 3 election cycles to effect some change.
“A pitched battle between mainstream Democrats and more liberal democratic socialists is roiling Seattle...”
There is no difference...they are just warring factions of identical ilk.
Saw a bumper sticker today:
Keep Portland Weird.
Seattle definitely needs one, too. But they were weird before it was cool all over the coast.
Socialist vs Communist
Trotskyite vs Stalinist
There are no “mainstream” Democrats
Nancy Spanberger ran as one and votes like Nancy Pelosi.
Their political spectrum in Seattle stretches from the merely loony loopy left, somewhat forgivable because they are so naive, and basically unacquainted with the facts of life, all the way over to bat-guano crazy, and including the basement-dwelling country outhouse rats.
There is no libertarians, or conservatives, or even dedicated nationalists in the bunch. They have no idea what would constitute “middle of the road”.
Business-friendly Progressives??? There’s no such thing.
I find it interesting how the media is working hard to make it appear that the socialists in the Democratic party are a small minority and that the rest are mainstream. These so-called mainstream Democrats are simply more experienced at hiding what they really believe. They also understand that incrementalism has gotten them where they are and that the mouthy socialists don’t realize that their approach is too obvious.
The reason Seattle is being overrun with homelessness has more to do with pot legalization, artificially high minimum wages, lax enforcement of vagrancy and public nuisance laws, etc. The fact that home prices continue to increase suggests that more people are moving in than out.
Seattle uses mail in balloting - ie a tailor-made fraud machine.
The ‘winner’ will be the group with the largest bunch of ballot box stuffers.
Marxists vs. Maoists/Stalinists/Pol Potists.
You can stop at the Pot legalization part....that was the beginning.
Not all pot smokers are the stereotypical stoner who does nothing except get high...
But when WA legalized it, a huge percentage of the stereotypical stoners moved here.
So we have a giant slice of the lazy lay about do nothing freeloading “I just wanna get hi bro” types.
And it has devolved from there as the leftists’ answers to our current societal problems actually enable and encourage more of the problem.
We have drug addicts and violent mentally I’ll folks camped out in our city and the polocitcal class with the help of the media keeps calling it a “housing affordability crisis.”
As if the solution to our problems are lower rents.
You could have free housing and it won’t help solve the drug addiction or mentally I’ll problems we have walking around.
Go further left, Seattle....it’s working wonders for you.
Business-friendly Progressives??? There’s no such thing.
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Mitt Romney begs to differ.
I want to see how bad things can get in a US city and how much people will tolerate.
It would be a great social experiment.
Mitt Romney??? There’s no such thing.
I’m pulling for the hardliners. Time for them to start putting the moderates up against the wall.
Where is Lavrentiy Beria when you need him? Or at least a Nikolai Yezhov.
“Saw a bumper sticker today:
Keep Portland Weird.”
That’s been Portlandia’s motto for a long, long time.
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