Vote like the future of Seattle is on the line — because it is

The city of Seattle is at a crossroads. Voters will decide on Tuesday whether the city will correct its course or continue the deadly embrace of the abolition of the police and lawlessness.

The current list of candidates is the most extreme and partisan Seattle has ever seen.

Mayoral candidate Lorena Gonzalez plans to weaken the police by 50%, despite previous cuts spurring spikes and historic murders. City council candidate Nikkita Oliver is a police abolitionist looking to cut the Seattle Police Department’s budget entirely. The current President of the Council, Teresa Mosqueda, says we have to “dismantle” the police force. Seattle City attorney candidate Nicole Thomas-Kennedy not only wants to abolish prisons, she also says she will refuse to prosecute most crimes.

Not only are they against the police, they are against business. They abhor capitalism and blame “big business” for every problem the city faces. They don’t dare to look at their politics. These are ideologues blinded by their beliefs. Some deny the state of Seattle while others don’t seem to care. They justify short term misery for long term ideological gain. But the misery is not short-lived.

Seattle may never be the same again

When these extremists take over, Seattle will never be the same.

Activists will, of course, say that is exactly the point. They want to fundamentally change Seattle – a city that they claim is oppressing people of color and marginalizing communities that are already marginalized. How bizarre: The very activists who make this claim have ruled the city, directly or indirectly.

What has become of the city’s adoption of a progressive and socialist policy of the extreme left? Homicides have just hit a 26-year record high. Small businesses struggle with high taxes to stay open. The rents are still high. Homelessness has engulfed neighborhoods in this city. Diverse perpetrators are given endless opportunities for help which they refuse only to return to crime, which leads to more victims along the way.

Who is responsible? Progressives aren’t to blame for their own chaos?

The reality

Activists sometimes strangely blame big corporations – as if they had some champions in Seattle City Council. I hear a lot from “right-wing media”. Other than KTTH, there is no local conservative media alternative that people hear or read.

From time to time activists claim it is Seattle’s conservative influence, but they consider anyone Kshama Sawant to be a conservative. There are just 17 Conservatives in Seattle. We don’t have the power to change elections. Democrats do. And what did they do with their power? They still vote more extreme than the last candidates, in the hope that their ideas will suddenly work.

When will they realize that their obscene migration to the left – as far to the left as we are now on socialist and abolitionist territory – is damaging the city?

Put an end to the madness

When will they keep their promises to help minority communities that have made those communities less safe? The defunding of the police harms black neighborhoods. It is not the police who shoot and kill Black Seatteachers.

Removing the police from these areas increases the likelihood that residents will become victims of crime. Black voters generally do not want to disappoint the police. Perhaps the mostly white activists and politicians speaking on behalf of the black community should speak to members of the black community first.

Reading a book by Robin DiAngelo won’t wake you up; it makes you ignorant and dangerous.

Want to see what a real anti-business environment does to Seattle? Give him a few more years. Amazon is growing very significantly elsewhere and is likely to take away the very wealthy tax base activists who are being used to fund programs that haven’t worked. And those who stay in Seattle but commute to Bellevue to work for Amazon will spend less money in local retail and restaurants.

Take a stroll through South Lake Union and downtown Seattle and you’ll discover closed businesses that thrived when Amazon had employees in the office. The remaining struggle.

Vote like Seattle depends on it

The voters have a very clear choice. You cannot escape this vote and hope that a progressive politician will moderate some after his term in office.

There is no moderation by Gonzalez, Oliver, Mosqueda or Thomas-Kennedy. They don’t hide who they are or what they believe. They take on their political identity and think that it coincides with the Seattle voters. Maybe it is? As a conservative, I’m obviously a runaway in Seattle. But are the Seattle Democrats left enough to accept anyone who identifies as the most extreme progressive? How can you see what has become of this city and think that this is a world class city on the right track?

I hope, of course, that the Democrats see what their previous decisions have made. At some point they have to correct the course. November 2nd is your chance. You have reasonable, viable candidates to vote for.

Seattle residents have to choose as if their city depends on it. Because it does.

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Rantz: Vote like the future of Seattle is on the line — because it is

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