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Seattle Is Socialism’s Laboratory, and It’s Not Pretty
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Mattb
Feb 27, 2020, 8:50:06 PM2/27/20
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Seattle Is Socialism’s Laboratory, and It’s Not Pretty
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/02/seattle-socialism-city-council-faction-pushes-new-taxes-regulations/
Democratic socialists are in the middle of a hostile takeover of the
Democratic Party. Led by the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign and
the “squad” of newly elected congresswomen, the hard-left coalition
has laid out an ambitious agenda to transform the United States into a
democratic socialist nation. While many commentators have dismissed
the rhetoric around the Green New Deal, Housing for All, and End Cash
Bail as pie-in-the-sky abstraction, in Seattle, the socialist
coalition is quickly translating this agenda into a political reality.
After the socialist Left’s stunning victory over business-backed
moderates in last year’s municipal elections, Seattle has effectively
become the nation’s laboratory for socialist policies. Since the
beginning of the year, the socialist faction on the Seattle City
Council has proposed a range of policies on taxes, housing,
homelessness, and criminal justice that put into practice the national
democratic-socialist agenda. In the most recent session, socialist
councilwoman Kshama Sawant and her allies have proposed massive new
taxes on corporations, unprecedented regulations on landlords
(including rent control and a ban on “winter evictions”), the mandated
construction of homeless encampments, and the gradual dismantling of
the criminal justice system, beginning with the end of cash bail.
Seattle’s socialists have established a narrative that provides the
rhetorical basis for their policies. They argue that the
corporate-technological elite, led by companies such as Amazon, has
hoarded the rewards of the digital economy and created widespread
misery for workers, renters, and people of color. As Seattle-based
commentator and Marxist theoretician Charles Mudede has written: “We
are in the 21st century. We are in one of the richest cities on earth.
And yet, the old war between those who employ labor and those who sell
their labor is still very much with us.”
...
But Seattle’s socialists have gone one step further. In order to
consolidate their newfound power, the progressive-socialists have
begun to manipulate the democratic process in their own favor: first,
by providing all Seattle voters with $100 in taxpayer-funded
“democracy vouchers,” which are easily collected by unions, activists,
and socialist groups; and second, by implementing a ban on corporate
spending in local elections by companies like Amazon. At the same
time, black-bloc activists and Antifa militants intimidate any
potential opposition by disrupting events, vandalizing homes, and even
orchestrating death threats against political adversaries.
********
This is what Bernie wants for all the USA?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/02/seattle-socialism-city-council-faction-pushes-new-taxes-regulations/
Democratic socialists are in the middle of a hostile takeover of the
Democratic Party. Led by the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign and
the “squad” of newly elected congresswomen, the hard-left coalition
has laid out an ambitious agenda to transform the United States into a
democratic socialist nation. While many commentators have dismissed
the rhetoric around the Green New Deal, Housing for All, and End Cash
Bail as pie-in-the-sky abstraction, in Seattle, the socialist
coalition is quickly translating this agenda into a political reality.
After the socialist Left’s stunning victory over business-backed
moderates in last year’s municipal elections, Seattle has effectively
become the nation’s laboratory for socialist policies. Since the
beginning of the year, the socialist faction on the Seattle City
Council has proposed a range of policies on taxes, housing,
homelessness, and criminal justice that put into practice the national
democratic-socialist agenda. In the most recent session, socialist
councilwoman Kshama Sawant and her allies have proposed massive new
taxes on corporations, unprecedented regulations on landlords
(including rent control and a ban on “winter evictions”), the mandated
construction of homeless encampments, and the gradual dismantling of
the criminal justice system, beginning with the end of cash bail.
Seattle’s socialists have established a narrative that provides the
rhetorical basis for their policies. They argue that the
corporate-technological elite, led by companies such as Amazon, has
hoarded the rewards of the digital economy and created widespread
misery for workers, renters, and people of color. As Seattle-based
commentator and Marxist theoretician Charles Mudede has written: “We
are in the 21st century. We are in one of the richest cities on earth.
And yet, the old war between those who employ labor and those who sell
their labor is still very much with us.”
...
But Seattle’s socialists have gone one step further. In order to
consolidate their newfound power, the progressive-socialists have
begun to manipulate the democratic process in their own favor: first,
by providing all Seattle voters with $100 in taxpayer-funded
“democracy vouchers,” which are easily collected by unions, activists,
and socialist groups; and second, by implementing a ban on corporate
spending in local elections by companies like Amazon. At the same
time, black-bloc activists and Antifa militants intimidate any
potential opposition by disrupting events, vandalizing homes, and even
orchestrating death threats against political adversaries.
********
This is what Bernie wants for all the USA?
Matt Singer
Feb 29, 2020, 3:40:15 PM2/29/20
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On 2/29/2020 12:34 PM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
> Matt Singer <out.o...@wyebur.con> wrote in
> news:Tgk6G.265621$ss1....@fx42.iad:
>
>> On 2/28/2020 6:43 PM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>> jane....@gmail.com wrote in
>>> news:c4f39e57-5165-4b62...@googlegroups.com:
>>>
>>>> On Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 9:47:09 PM UTC-5, Mitchell Holman
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Mattb <trdel...@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>> news:m5sg5f99s91a63vok...@4ax.com:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Seattle Is Socialism’s Laboratory, and It’s Not
>>>>>> Pretty
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But Seattle’s socialists have gone one step further. In
>>>>> decided by big out of state corporations
>>>>> throwing lots of money around? Why?
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> 1. Amazon is a resident in Seattle.
>>>
>>>
>>> Amazon is a Delaware corporation.
>>
>> Amazon's business headquarters are in Seattle. Amazon has no more
>> than a post office box in Delaware.
<crickets>
>>
>>>
>>>> Why should they be banned from
>>>> buying advertising in the local elections? Isn't that a violation
>>>> of free speech?
>>>
>>>
>>> Does Amazon vote in local elections?
>>
>> Amazon has interests in local elections.
>
>
> So does the Chinese government.
Amazon is American. Amazon is *part of* the local community in Seattle.
China is a foreign power. Foreign powers don't get to participate in our
elections. All local players do.
Your hatred of private enterprise makes you stupid.
> Matt Singer <out.o...@wyebur.con> wrote in
> news:Tgk6G.265621$ss1....@fx42.iad:
>
>> On 2/28/2020 6:43 PM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>> jane....@gmail.com wrote in
>>> news:c4f39e57-5165-4b62...@googlegroups.com:
>>>
>>>> On Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 9:47:09 PM UTC-5, Mitchell Holman
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Mattb <trdel...@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>> news:m5sg5f99s91a63vok...@4ax.com:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Seattle Is Socialism’s Laboratory, and It’s Not
>>>>>> Pretty
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But Seattle’s socialists have gone one step further. In
>>>>>> order t
>>>> o
>>>>>> consolidate their newfound power, the progressive-socialists have
>>>>>> begun to manipulate the democratic process in their own favor:
>>>>>> first, by providing all Seattle voters with $100 in
>>>>>> taxpayer-funded “democracy vouchers,†which are easily
>>>> o
>>>>>> consolidate their newfound power, the progressive-socialists have
>>>>>> begun to manipulate the democratic process in their own favor:
>>>>>> first, by providing all Seattle voters with $100 in
>>>>>> collected by uni
>>>> ons, activists,
>>>>>> and socialist groups; and second, by implementing a ban on
>>>>>> corporate spending in local elections by companies like Amazon.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You think local elections SHOULD be
>>>> ons, activists,
>>>>>> and socialist groups; and second, by implementing a ban on
>>>>>> corporate spending in local elections by companies like Amazon.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> decided by big out of state corporations
>>>>> throwing lots of money around? Why?
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> 1. Amazon is a resident in Seattle.
>>>
>>>
>>> Amazon is a Delaware corporation.
>>
>> Amazon's business headquarters are in Seattle. Amazon has no more
>> than a post office box in Delaware.
<crickets>
>>
>>>
>>>> Why should they be banned from
>>>> buying advertising in the local elections? Isn't that a violation
>>>> of free speech?
>>>
>>>
>>> Does Amazon vote in local elections?
>>
>> Amazon has interests in local elections.
>
>
> So does the Chinese government.
Amazon is American. Amazon is *part of* the local community in Seattle.
China is a foreign power. Foreign powers don't get to participate in our
elections. All local players do.
Your hatred of private enterprise makes you stupid.
Byker
Feb 29, 2020, 3:47:57 PM2/29/20
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"Matt Singer" wrote in message news:N_z6G.726983$Gh7.6...@fx45.iad...
>
> Your hatred of private enterprise makes you stupid.
Clueless skullfuls of mush: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuQKzvd-ttw
> Your hatred of private enterprise makes you stupid.
PhantomView
Feb 29, 2020, 10:32:57 PM2/29/20
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how much the proverbial golden goose delivers
to them daily. If they kill it they will learn, fast,
but that also screws everyone else.
In Czarist Russia, the regular folks had no
golden goose - they lived like shit, and not
for very long for the most part. They had
nothing to lose. Here and now however ...
wow ... let us see the vegans score a
veggie burger when there are no veggies
or much of anything else. No heat, no
water, no lights, nowhere to flush the shit,
no shots to cure the ills you get for living
in all that shit. Evil capitalism provides
this stuff, but it is so ubiquitous that few
even realize it.
Until it is gone.
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