With all due respect to the fervent views of many Seattle liberals, the Democratic party needs to be the party of the middle class. This is the lesson of the fight in Wisconson and is especially true in today’s Seattle.
The US has never elected a laboring man .. much less a woman from the laboring classes … to the Presidency. Unions, outside of the quite special case of government workers, have dwindled to 7% of the private workforce .. more important for $$ and volunteers than for votes.
I see this as as a huge issue here in Seattle. Redistricting has cut of the labor class voters south of SODO from Jim McDermott’s seventh CD. Meantime Seattle has spawned a huge population of down town Manhattan style voters .. Amazonians and Microsofties have replaced Boeing machinists and stevedores.
McDerrmott, to be blunt, has only vestigial ties to this new, young Seattle.
A business Republican can. and I believe will, challenge McD unless the dems convince the old man to step down and then run a younger person who “looks more like us.”