... I guess you get used to having a security blanket: "Socialist Seattle Mayor Gets Aggressively Saved By Handlers When a Reporter Politely Asks Basic Questions".
Honest questions asked of stupid and fanatical ideologues are like holy water tossed at a demon - same basic response.
Okay yes, she is stupid.
ReplyDeleteBut what about the electorate that put her in office?
Ditto.
DeleteMy (rural) county is on the Olympic Peninsula, west of Puget Sound. About two decades ago we had a sheriff who joked that he'd already identified where he'd drop trees on roads to block refugees from Seattle if the collapse came.
DeleteI mean, I think he was joking.
If the city can't produce an opponent and use that BYE! moment in a ruthless campaign, it deserves to be annexed to California.
DeleteBack in the aughts, when Harry Reid was being despicable is when I started just blaming voters more than pols.
DeleteHe was literally rooting against America in a war and they still re-elected him.
You get more of what you reward. We're rewarding vile, corrupt, stupid and feckless people so that's what we get.
Seattle has been sliding into Third World Shthole status for several decades. That started when the Kalifornian Kolonists started invading the previously bucolic Pacific Northwest, when I was growing up on the shores of the Puget Sound.
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