How liberal would you consider the AVERAGE Seattleite? (Mount Vernon, Republic: sale, felons)

[Chris Meyers]

Im a native Seattlite and I am the opposite of liberal heh 180 degrees. I am a proud conservative. So yeah its not all liberals. I voted centrist though because atleast in my set of mostly other native Seattlites, nobody is certainly extremely liberal. They tend to be tolerant people but very rational.

[Gardyloo]

I think the politics of Seattle is about to undergo a tremendous upheaval with the institution of districting for the city council. Until this year, all city council seats have been elected "at large" which allowed single-issue candidates to put together citywide coalitions of like-minded people. Now neighborhood issues (roads, crime etc.) are going to be much more relevant than more populist causes (it seems to me.) Sure, some areas will return very liberal members to the council, but there might well be trends in the opposite direction in some of the districts. We'll have to wait and see.

[seattlerain]

Seattle native here and my political beliefs are so far to the left most people would consider me a socialist.

[Ira500]

Originally Posted by Gardyloo

I think the politics of Seattle is about to undergo a tremendous upheaval with the institution of districting for the city council. Until this year, all city council seats have been elected "at large" which allowed single-issue candidates to put together citywide coalitions of like-minded people. Now neighborhood issues (roads, crime etc.) are going to be much more relevant than more populist causes (it seems to me.) Sure, some areas will return very liberal members to the council, but there might well be trends in the opposite direction in some of the districts. We'll have to wait and see.

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I think that's why the voters chose to go with districts- because they felt like the council was devoting itself too much to "feel good" initiatives, while not paying enough attention to things like crime, etc.
So if it does what it's supposed to, election by district could serve to ensure that a particular neighborhood has a voice.

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[seattlerain]

Originally Posted by RotseCherut

Considering Seattle has elected an ultra left-wing, communist woman as the City Council leader, I would say the city has a majority of very ultra liberal people. However, there are a good number of the more conservative, libertarian and business like and blue collar people. Sadly, this is more of the remnants of the old Seattle than the new Seattle. Seattle has attracted so many left-wing whackjobs from around the country and world who have come there to change and fix the city and make it better. In reality, they are trying to chisel away and destroy the very foundations which made Seattle such a great city to begin with. Give them some time and Seattle will become a city full of corporate elitist hogs combined with impoverished hipsters who share 10 to a a studio, like most other liberal cities. Most ultra liberal cities sooner or later start to resemble cities in third world countries, because their communist ideologies fail in a society where corporate bureucracy is intertwined with politics. Ever notice that most giant corporate hogs support the liberal parties, e.g. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet?

A good example of this is the city council leader is some feminazi/communist from India who thinks all American business people are the devil and should be put in prison if they will not allow the government to redistribute their profits to the poor starving people who sit on street corners with their big pot bellies and cigarettes hanging from their mouths begging for money to pay for their dope and booze habits. She believes the lazy and helpless should make equal salaries to those who have to break their back and slave away working for a living. And, lo and behold, Seattle has attracted quite a few lazy and helpless ultra liberal types who believe they are entitled to earn as much income from the hard work of the more capitalistic class of people, whether or not they did the work or not.

I say she should go back to her own country and fix all the crap going on there rather than destroy our own country and the city of Seattle.

Is it necessary to refer to those that have different beliefs as "left-wing whackjobs","feminazi" and "lazy and helpless ultra liberal types"?

[Seacove]

Originally Posted by seattlerain

Is it necessary to refer to those that have different beliefs as "left-wing whackjobs" and "feminazi" and "lazy and helpless ultra liberal types"?

It's also inaccurate. I don't know any unemployed liberals, in fact, quite the opposite.

[elevationnation]

I would say comparing Seattle to most of America, yes it is very liberal. I don't know many cities where people can bike naked down the street, drink in public, and smoke weed...IJS

[wutitiz]

Originally Posted by Seacove

I go by JFK's definition:

“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”

― John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

Rotse, liberal does not mean anti-capitalist. Seattle is certainly pro-capitalist. It's as corporate as it gets.

JFK cut taxes on the rich; he was a believer in supply-side economics (practically invented it) who said that a rising tide lifts all boats. Reagan later used his ideas as a model. JFK was a gun owner and NRA life member. He was a staunch anti-communist who launched a (sadly) failed invasion of Cuba, and was an ally of Joe McCarthy as a US Senator.

JFK would have been tarred and feathered and run out of Seattle on a rail.

[Hemlock140]

Socially liberal, fiscally moderate to conservative. In other words, tolerant of just abut anything a person wants to do as long as it's not hurting anyone, but just ask anyone in Seattle if they would like to see a state income tax and see what their reaction is.

[Seacove]

Originally Posted by wutitiz

JFK cut taxes on the rich; he was a believer in supply-side economics (practically invented it) who said that a rising tide lifts all boats. Reagan later used his ideas as a model. JFK was a gun owner and NRA life member. He was a staunch anti-communist who launched a (sadly) failed invasion of Cuba, and was an ally of Joe McCarthy as a US Senator.

JFK would have been tarred and feathered and run out of Seattle on a rail.

1. JFK did not invent supply side economics.
2. Reagan did not model his presidency off of Kennedy, that's laughable.
3. The NRA of JFK's era is nothing like the NRA of today.
4. JFK's family were friends with McCarthy in the early 50s but Kennedy supported McCarthy's censure and by the time he was president, the Kennedy family had all turned away from McCarthy.
5. Kennedy's definition of liberalism is timeless and works perfectly to this day.