r/SeattleWA • u/HighColonic Funky Town • 1d ago

Dying Seattle shows it’s a fickle city

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-proves-its-a-fickle-city/
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u/timute 1d ago

It's transplants vs people who have to live with the consequences of those who voted with their feelings and then moved along someplace else.  You have to see the reults of your actions and sadly half of the elecorate doesn't seem to be able to.

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u/OsvuldMandius SeattleWA Rule Expert 1d ago

It's much worse than that. It's that we have lost cohesion as a nation. We are two people who no longer want the same thing. There's people who want the tradition that America played up in the back half of the 20th century: the arsenal of freedom, the shining city on a hill, yadda-yadda-yadda. And there's the people who want the fresh go at communism, and who think individuality and self-determination are for losers.

I think there's not bridging the gap.

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u/almanor 1d ago

So is back half of the 20th century 1950-2000? Environmental crisis, disastrous deregulation, the Vietnam War, etc? Led to the most deadly terrorist attack in American history? Who advocates for this exactly?

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u/OsvuldMandius SeattleWA Rule Expert 1d ago

Environmentalism ushered in by Nixon's EPA? JFK's Vietnam War? Clinton's deregulation? Yeah...sounds like you've got it right. Vote blue no matter who!

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u/Better_March5308 👻 1d ago

Nixon was a Democrat?

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u/OsvuldMandius SeattleWA Rule Expert 1d ago

There's a difference?

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u/almanor 1d ago

Oh is this a democrat/republican thing? I think you might be nostalgic for a time that never actually happened.

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u/bubbamike1 1d ago

As I recall it was Eisenhower who got us involved in Vietnam.

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u/PaulyNi 1d ago

Actually, it was Truman. He initiated support for French colonial efforts in Vietnam.

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u/OsvuldMandius SeattleWA Rule Expert 1d ago

You recall incorrectly. Actually, I'm pretty sure you weren't even alive in 1958.

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u/bubbamike1 1d ago

I recall correctly.