Just recently:
The city council voted down the controversial and anti business head tax only four weeks after unanimously approving it.
83 percent of Seattle voters are dissatisfied with how the council has addressed homelessness, 65 percent believe that the local government hasn’t used new tax revenues effectively, and 63 percent believe that the city has enough money to solve the problem but isn’t pursuing the right policies.
Members of Iron Workers Local 86 shouted down Socialist council member Kshama
Sawant at a political rally.
Hyper Liberal Councilmember Mike O’Brien was physically thrown out of an outdoor event at the Pacific Fishermen Shipyard on Friday night. The event was an official after-party of the Nordic Museum’s grand opening. O’Brien said he was asked to leave, and as he looked for his wife, “someone from behind grabbed me by the shoulders and proceeded to shove me toward the gate and out the gate,” he said. “I was physically thrown out of this event because of the policies I advocate for.”
O’Brien took the brunt of criticism at a raucous town hall over homelessness last week, and a Change.org letter to O’Brien from neighbors frustrated with homelessness and crime has nearly 2,500 signatures. There’s a “Recall Mike O’Brien” Facebook group, which took this photo of “Visualize Recall” stickers making the rounds in Ballard.
I'd say O'Brien's political career is over.
May this grass roots revolt come to LA and SF as soon as possible. Here in California, it'll be interesting to see how Socialist Gavin Newsome does in the election for governor. If he wins, but it's close, that'll tell a great deal about how the political winds are blowing. If he actually loses, then Katy bar the door, there's a political upheaval in progress.
Socialism only works so long as people remain convinced that you're using OTHER people's money.
ReplyDeleteYou can't erase poverty by giving freebees. Humans get use to them and expect them as a human right forever. Poverty can only be stemmed (never totally eradicated) by Mr. Darwin's edict. Work or die. It's that simple.
ReplyDeleteQuite a few Norwegian descended fishermen live in the Seattle area. Especially a lot of the Alaskan crab fleet. Not people you would want to cross.
ReplyDeleteyes indeed. crab pots always need fresh bait...just a thought wink wink nod nod.
DeleteSure hope the tide is turning...
ReplyDeleteThe Allies decisively won WWII by leaving Germany in ruins. WWI had ended with an armistice, and 15 years later the Germans had again made themselves into a pestilence. Today, 75 years later, Europe is reasonably stable if they can keep from committing cultural suicide.
ReplyDeleteSimilarly, I keep telling my wife that this current conflict in the US, between Liberal Democrat and Populist Republicans, will sooner or later end in violence. It has to. You can only scream at intelligent people who are minding their own business to 'shut up' for so long before they haul off and clock you one. I'm glad to see it's starting, because most of these clowns are spoiled clueless pudgy people dressed in skinny jeans, and I'm sick and tired of their shit.
Forget thee not: Complacency is a strong narcotic. Look what it once did for the European Jews, Aggie.
DeleteI hope and fervently pray that Cox wins the Governorship. If he does, CA has a chance to restore sanity. This would give me hope that we might once more become the Golden State we once were.
ReplyDeleteBut then I read some of my neighbors' comments about Sanctuary Cities, who say that we should allow anyone who wants to come in to our country to enter w/ no questions asked, "think of the children"- and I think that it'll come down to a bloody conflict. The Left doesn't give up easily!