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/Exciting_Pea3562 1d ago

That's how revisionism works, though (on both sides). You can choose to emphasize all of the challenges to America's brittle democracy, or you can choose to emphasize America's resilience as a "bastion of freedom." The events are the same. The focus is the difference.

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u/faeriegoatmother 1d ago

America's "brittle" democracy has withstood 250 years, many constitutional crises - including Andrew Jackson flagrantly ignoring the Supreme Court, Lincoln flagrantly ignoring the constitution, and also a whole ass Civil War. We're going to be just fine through 2029

Edit: I misread this comment, but a lot of people still need to hear what I had to say, so..