Seattle: hellish liberal conformism...zzzzzzzzzz...
I wish I could say more unambiguously that I am still a man of the left, but I can't. I may still feel like a man of the left but I know I don't pass muster with the contemporary left, especially Seattle's auto-pilot version of the same. After 9/11 I didn't like liberals embracing the weirdest ideas of the 1970s Socialist Workers Party, to wit, America brought 9/11 upon herself; I was repulsed by liberals agreeing, in spirit if not in word, with the jihadist attackers that, yes, fundamentally, America deserved it.
So the door kicked open. Or, put another way, I had gained some distance on my former thinking. Now I behold Seattle's encrusted leftism, and yes, somewhat braindead liberalism, everywhere.
Exhibit A: Seattle's National Public Radio feed, KUOW. Have you listened to a KUOW morning interview program lately?
Monday morning: we learn that Seattle water is fatally polluted by an exogamous charcol bug. It will kill all the fish in a year and us in five.
Tuesday morning: we learn that our local air is fatally polluted by a local smelting firm. Unfortunately the firms' owners pockets are deeply crammed with local politicians and there is nothing to be done. We'll all be dead in three years. In the second half of the program BBC World reports that an Egyptian waiter hates America. As does a French farmer and a Syrian newspaper editor. Basically the world hates America but maybe, sigh, just maybe, president Obama can get the world to like us. You know, the way it did back in...ah......ah.....
Wednesday morning: we learn that impacted uranium is being carried across the city by airborne viruses and rain drops. Evil corporations are to blame and we'll all be dead in five years.
Thursday morning: Seattle's parks are uniformly infected with Soylent Blue Virus. This is the legacy of Seattle's merciless and corporate logging past that has stayed in the soil and infected it beyond remediation. All our children will be dead in five years.
Friday morning: Group discussion by local liberal media eggheads. Seattle councilman X hates councilwoman Y. Seattle corporations are evil. Jihadists are indeed bad but not as bad as republicans. Republicans are evil. We'll all be dead in five years.
I picture an ordinary Seattle housewife, say a stay-at-home or part-time working mom, living in a liberal neighborhood like Ravenna. How does she keep from going stark raving mad after listening to this downer, politically correct drivel day after day? It seems to me the republican party could reconstitute itself by just enjoying life everyday. Make that your next political platform: We kind of enjoy life a bit. You'd have it all over the contemporary left. Instead, you go over to National Review Online and you've got all the conservative commentators fretfully chosing the 20 Best Conservative Movies of all time.
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