Has The Center Left?
Seattle City Council seat #8, up this year and open (Tim Burgess is
I think you misuse the term “socialist.” What is real is that the deliberate interests … call them corporate, business, intelligentsia, or the arts have withdrawn from the fray.
retiring from this seat), will provide a good anatomy of Seattle political alignments. You can sense how much the socialist wing of Seattle politics has grown since the election of Kshama Sawant. Opposing that wing is not so much business interests as ethnic groups and identity politics. It’s class politics (Jon Grant) versus identity politics (Teresa Mosqueda).
The candidates in Seattle City Council Position 8 are tackling police reform, testing out Seattle’s first-in-the-nation “democracy vouchers,” giving life to a battle…
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