So this bitch makes a resolution to give all Seattle city workers a day of unpaid leave to go out and protest on May Day!!!!!  The Seattle city council approved her resolution!!  WTF???  So blocked streets and airport mayhem may be the order of the day on May 1st.

Seattle has lost it's fucking mind.

May Day

I saw that yesterday.   Was not shocked though.  She's stated her intentions of socialism and other wacky ideas for a while now.    

This is the future of Seattle and likely all of Western Washington.

Sawant wants to hold the city hostage to let her minions smash it to bits, attack people and incite violence. She should be arrested.

Psssttt....It's already state law and Seattle city workers already had the right to take the day off if they choose to do so.

She just opened her cunt mouth to "reaffirm" it.
Grandstanding filthy whore twat.

City Council affirms Seattle workers’ right to take May Day off — unpaid
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-city-employees-should-be-excused-from-work-on-may-day-sawant-says/

C'mon, is any of this news to you?  

She's a socialist.  The very definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over yet expecting a different result.  Socialism has failed 100% of the time, anywhere it was tried.  

Thus, we can conclude she is 100% insane.  

Let her go.  Let the disaster happen.  The more they reveal themselves the more they show how truly stupid they are.  Have faith in the sane people, they will come around.

Or else, they will move away & leave the place to rot.  Predictably, though, the parasites will also eventually migrate where the hosts are.

They're self-defeating.  Stand back and watch nature take it's course.

I'm on the "prepare to move" list.

I was surprised to see that even on the reddit seattle subgroups, where these sort of antics would usually find some support, almost everyone is ridiculing Sawant or saying that she needs to go.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/67q04o/sawants_call_to_shut_down_highways_on_may_day/

There are many flavors of "socialists" in the US these days.  Not all of them are actually socialists in the way most people would understand the term.

Sawant is from the Socialist Alternative Party, which is a militant group of Marxists/Trotskyists.  Their ultimate goal is a new communist revolution in the US.  She actually sounds tame compared to many other members of her party, but I suspect that is just because even she knows she can't spew all of her insanity out at once or people will realize what they voted for.  The SA actually started as a group called Labor Militant and they were heavily involved in the WTO rioting in Seattle.

Sawant has no interest whatsoever in working within the system.  Her only purpose is to disrupt and break the established political process.  She would much prefer to see an angry mob take what they want by threat of force (or actual force) than to win it through the political process.  This is because she (and her party) know that they can not get what they want by appealing to the majority because the majority of people will not see much personal benefit in what the SA is proposing.

This is all based on old revolutionary ideas from Russia where the workers class was convinced to revolt, and did so successfully, despite being a minority compared to other classes who would not benefit from the revolution.  The idea was to then spread the revolution to rest of the world by way of solidarity with the larger working classes in other countries.

Most modern socialist groups in the US want to see a similar revolution take place here, but for some bizarre reason they think they can prevent the failures of other communist revolutions by somehow keeping the power-hungry, manipulative, dictators from moving in.  Of course they fail before they start because their leaders lack the ability to look inward and see that they themselves are exactly those types of people.  The leaders of these revolutions always establish themselves as dictators to ensure that the new revolution doesn't get corrupted by the ever present evil of capitalist forces.  They then keep themselves (and their descendants) in power while claiming that they can't relinquish power because the revolution is still taking place.

Don't get me wrong, I also believe the political system here is broken to a certain extent, but as others have pointed out, communist revolutions have a well documented track record of producing far worse situations than the ones they replaced.
Unfortunately, groups that call themselves "socialists" have many decades of practice at drawing attention to themselves here in the US by being loud and obnoxious, despite being small in number.  Now we are starting to see large numbers of people looking for alternatives to the political status-quo and the "socialists" have hit the ground running with their recruitment efforts while other alternative political groups are still trying to figure out how to get themselves heard.

I know I'm looking for a new rock to jump to. This state is heading of the rails.

Tomorrow should be "interesting" in downtown Seattle.  

I think the entire police department should get the day off. She hates them anyway. It would be interesting to see how far these demonstrators would go if they knew that no one was going to stop them. Seattle shits on their cops, time to take a day off.

I think all of us would love this scenario.  I suppose State Patrol and Homeland could be left to dealt with it???  What I find disturbing is the police chief has been silent thru all of this, and the hate.  How come O'Toole hasn't supported her officers and told Sawant to FOAD?

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As much as i love the geography its getting to expensive to live here, when I cant take my kid to the park bc of the addicts, while we are getti g lectures about compasssion its time to go. This is not the place i fell in love with years ago

O'Toole is owes her job to the mayor and city council.  They can remove her for any reason they like, and put in anyone else they feel like.  Sawant is bad, but others on the council would can her in a heartbeat if she started standing up too much.  She did a pretty good job on a couple of shootings, but she only got away with it because she is an internationally recognized expert on police reform and was rumored to be on the short list for a spot in the (now non-existent) Hilary Clinton administration.

I like to think of Sawant as basically an internet troll, but in politics.  If you feed her with arguments she only gets stronger.  Ignore her and eventually everyone realizes what a self-important, obnoxious, ass-hat she actually is.  I think most of the rest of the area politicians have started to figure this out as well.

I think the city council specifically exempted "emergency services personal" from their proclamation.  I agree it would have been sweet if every Seattle cop put in for a day off.  I doubt they would have anyway though, cuz honestly, it's probably a big overtime pay-day for them.

shawarma isn't the problem, the people that vote and give her power are.

Now this dumb C Unit thinks she's a SeaHawks GM.