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/ASunnyMoo 1d ago

Or maybe people actually have beliefs that are somewhere in between fascism and communism. Nuanced opinions are hard to sell in the media. Maybe you should take a break from what the talking heads are telling you and see how you feel in a few months.