Seattle Also Elects A Socialist Mayor

AProudLefty said:
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T. A. Gardner said:
Then how do they get the "Socialist" part?
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So, like regular Socialism, "Democratic" Socialism has the state either owning industry or heavily controlling it. Capitalism isn't made "humane" by a massive social-welfare state. It becomes little more than a means to finance it... Universal healthcare--presumably government run and government rationed. "Affordable" education--public schools with union teachers and few or no alternatives. Market system--government controls the market either directly or through heavy handed regulations. Balance equality with freedom--The "Robin Hood" effect. Steal from the productive and give to the lazy and stupid.

The slogan should be: Instead of billionaires with their private money, we get politicians and oligarchs with billions in public money...

Every country on that list has backed away from Socialist policies and freed up their markets because they are watching their countries go down the tubes economically.
 
archives said:
I don’t know anything about Seattle politics, nor little of San Francisco’s, other than a local history museum isn’t a priority, but from what you offered, and what I know of NYC, these candidates speak to voters bread and butter issues. To the average schmuck on the street working forty hours a week and a family to feed issues as public transit and better public schools sell, talk of millionaires fleeing the city and Margret Thatcher quotes don’t

I’d say Republicans don’t generally succeed in large urban areas because they have the reputation, even if not valid, of being the party representing rich white guys plus rural interests, and most of these areas have diverse populations. That plus the Democrats have established an entrenched party infrastructure the GOP lacks

And they are Democratic Socialists, not the Trotskyists the right loves to depict them as
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Socialism is based on theft, anchovies. Go stuff your racism up your butt.
 
AProudLefty said:
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Fascism and communism are both socialism, LeftNut. All socialism is based on theft.

Theft isn't 'equal opportunity'. It is not 'equality'. It is not a 'fair shot'.
'Universal healthcare' is horrendously EXPENSIVE and poor quality.

Since you hate the United States so much, go live in Canada or the EU.

Sweden is not a democracy. It is currently a republic.
Denmark is not a democracy. It is currently a republic.
Norway is not a democracy. It is currently a republic.
Canada is not a democracy. It is currently a dictatorship.
Germany is not a democracy. It is currently an oligarchy.
Finland is not a democracy. It is currently an oligarchy.
France is not a democracy. It is currently an oligarchy.

Socialism is not capitalism. You do not need to 'fix' capitalism, nor is it possible. There is nothing to 'fix'.

Wage controls, like any price controls, cause shortages.
 
They deserve what they are going to get. I don’t mind conservatives from those shitholes moving to red states causing them to lose EV and representatives. If the GOP would pass the save act we could crush the democrat marxist party
 
T. A. Gardner said:
That's true, but the state has a serious level of control over them. From what employees have to be paid, to what and how they can produce, to being heavily taxed to support the social-welfare state.

This was the model in Nazi Germany. It is the model in China today. It is Statist Capitalism.
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Yep - it is National Socialism.

Classical Fascism.
 
Lionfish said:
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Seattle’s leftie-loonie new Mayor Katie Wilson admitted she was wrong to slam Starbucks and push for a boycott of the mega-coffee chain born in the now-dying City. Wilson, 43, issued a terse 'mea culpa' to the New York Times this week as questions swirl about whether the liberal Northwest city can attract and retain businesses, including Starbucks, which recently chose to expand its footprint in Tennessee.
It's now estimated that between 35 and 40% of all commercial and residential buildings in Seattle are nowvacant. That's a sinking ship that can't turn itself around, and it's well deserved.
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cawacko said:
So fascinating to me. On a national level when people are unhappy, they usually vote for the other party. But in these big urban areas Republicans aren't an option, so instead the shift goes further to the left.

As progressive as San Francisco is, we haven't elected a progressive Mayor in decades. In our election last year we elected, by SF standards, a real moderate and he's done a lot to turn the City around.

I try to think what differentiates cities like Seattle and NYC who will elect a socialist, and SF who won't.


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Commies are in charge of the Democrat Party.
 
Teflon Don said:
Are you a democratic socialist?
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Before we proceed you are aware that the US has been part socialist since the 19th Century, correct?

Now am I democratic socialist, I definitely lean left, and I do believe that it is the Government’s responsibility to acknowledge the needs of the unfortunate and certainly don’t think the “thousand points of light” or Invisible Hand is going to address the problem.
 
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