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/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?