She won Seattle’s District 3 area by 5 percentage points over challenger Pamela Banks.
Sawant declared the win “a strong victory for all working people, for the socialist movement,” and said that the re-election signaled that “socialist politics are here to stay” in Seattle.
Sadly, she is probably correct about socialist politics having staying power, despite the illogic of its fundamental theories and its coercive nature.
Just watch these cheering confused:
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"Sadly, she is probably correct about socialist politics having staying power, despite the illogic of its fundamental theories and its coercive nature."
ReplyDeleteIndeed. As a rule, appeals to emotion are significantly more effective rather than logic and reason. The latter requires effort and skill, the former is already within an individual.As a result, and tragically so, libertarian ideas are unlikely to ever acquire any significant traction outside a very small minority of intelligent thinkers.
That's probably right. You have to offer something to the sheeple, not just ask them to stop using violence for it's own sake.
DeleteRobert look into measure 1366 that was endorsed in wa state. Says sales tax would automatically decrease 1% unless the legislature offers a constitutional amendment that would require super majority for tax increases. The socialists in Seattle voted against but the rest of the state voted for.
ReplyDeleteAside from that, other taxes were repealed. All of the new taxes that were not brought to the public, actually, other than the pot excise tax which was retained. Unfortunately this tax us one that both liberals and conservatives want.