see url:
https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/565550-rapid-change-churns-seattle-creating-political-turmoil
see full article. Interesting read on the false dichotomy of setting up
right from left...as if one or t'other is the cause of the
problems...It's like watching Nero setting fires as Rome
burns...(actually recent testimony suggests that Nero, didn't in fact do
that...but never mind)...😉 People like to put people into frames, into
categories, which is their way of simplifying a problem...then apportion
out the blame...as if that then solves the problem and it goes away.
It might make solving problems look easy, but that is the illusion.
Actually solving problems takes careful framing and categorising and
breaking knowledge up into digestible chunks and then working out a
viable workable programme from that...However, in our complex society
such framing and categorising of problems and people has to be so
flexible that it finishes up in hypocrisy...It's why I never became a
politician or an ideologue...😉 One has only to look at South Africa to
see what I mean...the dreams and aspirations of the ANC and freedom from
apartheid, never in fact materialised...Instead the corruption both
political and economic got worse, the ANC turned counter-revolutionary
and became positively criminal, and the poor indigenous people got
poorer and the rich old colonialists got richer and live in even more
gated and regulated enclaves well away from the poverty stricken masses,
hardly even sharing these gated communities with the middle class
indigenes who have taken over South Africa in alliance with foreign
corporations...Seattle has become a bit like that...😉
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SEATTLE — America’s most liberal city stands at an uneasy crossroads.
For decades, Seattle has been the vanguard of the nation’s progressive
movement. It was the first major city to adopt a $15 per hour minimum
wage, to allow gig economy workers to affiliate with a union and to
impose, albeit briefly, a per-employee tax on major corporations.
Along the way, it has experienced the explosive growth of a mammoth tech
industry that has changed the face of a racially and economically
diverse population. Neighborhoods once defined by commingling
populations of immigrants and blue-collar families now teem with new
condos, local restaurants have been replaced by high-end pot shops and
encampments filled with those who can no longer afford to live in their
city now line the its two major freeways.
As a consequence of that new growth, the median household income in
Seattle stands at $92,000, up almost 50 percent from a decade before.
But the price of a single-family home has more than doubled over the
same span, to $1 million, according to data from the Seattle-based real
estate firm Zillow.
“There’s been so much historic disequilibrium when you look at every
aspect of civic engagement, civic society,” said state Sen. Reuven
Carlyle (D), who represents a Seattle district. “It’s the subtle
undertone that is quietly prominent.”
Tensions have grown so heated here between a rising generation of
ultra-progressive leaders and activists and the more traditionally
liberal Democrats who have dominated the city’s politics for so long
that the old Seattle way of compromise politics has been eschewed for
one of protest and purity.
One City Council member, a self-described socialist, led a march last
year to the home of Mayor Jenny Durkan (D), whose address is kept
confidential because of ongoing death threats related to her past work
as a federal prosecutor.
“There certainly are those people who like a fight, or who like an enemy
or a foil, because that makes good politics. But I don’t think that’s
how most Seattleites feel,” said Rachel Smith, president of the Seattle
Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. “We do our best work in this region
when we work in coalition.”
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