Low information voters is the problem. From The Seattle Times:
The Seattle City Council may be up for a big shift all right — further to the left
It’s been conventional wisdom since last summer, when that drive for a “head tax” targeting Amazon collapsed, that our super-progressive City Council had finally gone ’round the bend. Too far, even for lefty Seattle.
The theory went that it was sure to face corrective action now from voters — to move it back more toward the political center.
“With Seattle’s head tax dead, business lobbyists set sights on City Council elections,” headlined a Seattle Times story about efforts to flip the council to a less-activist body.
But noooooo:
Already Democratic Socialist members are running vigorous campaigns for two of those empty seats. Community organizer Tammy Morales is the early favorite in Harrell’s South End district, as she nearly defeated him in 2015. And Shaun Scott, a Black Lives Matter activist and local writer, is vying for Johnson’s seat.
An upcoming meeting will feature Morales, Scott and Seattle’s one current elected socialist, Kshama Sawant, talking about how it’s they who are really going to take back the city.
“Socialists have a different idea of what Seattle should look like,” the announcement says. “How can working class people use the 2019 Seattle City Council elections to build grass roots movements to tax big business and fight for basic needs like publicly owned housing and world class, free mass transit?”
In other words - hand out free government shit and use the infrastructure of the city to pay for it all. Works great until the roads collapse and they run out of money. Oh yes, and raise property taxes. Maybe even try for a state income tax as well (WA State has a high sales tax instead of a State Income Tax).
Socialism has never ever worked - people only advocate for it because they want to be in the elite group with all the money and political power. They are not in it for the common working man.
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