Hitler wasn’t just a Nazi, his party was the National Socialist Party! http://www.history.com/topics/nazi-party Millions died under Hitler, do some research – socialism has a long history of killing people who don’t agree with them. Now the Socialist are out in the open here in our county. The extremist aren’t on the right! Hitler was elected because he promised to fix Germany. The current socialists are doing the same thing.
From the left-wing Nation:
Could a Socialist Actually Win in Seattle’s City Council Race?
Kshama Sawant, a Seattle socialist who campaigned for the city council on a promise to lead the fight for a $15-an-hour minimum wage, has opened a 1,148-vote lead in the citywide count.
Sawant has not won the seat yet. But she now has over 50 percent of the vote, and local media says Sawant is “getting closer to clinching a seat on the Seattle City Council.”
As Seattle’s long count has proceeded since the November 5 election, the economics professor and Occupy Seattle activist who campaigned as an antidote to politics as usual has steadily increased her vote. If the pattern continues, Sawant will score an election victory that the candidate describes as “historic”
America has a rich history of radical politics at the municipal level. Over the past century has seen “sewer socialists” manage the affairs of major cities such as Milwaukee and join city councils, schools boards and county commissions from New York City to Butte, Montana.
The last big-city Socialist Party mayor was Milwaukee’s Frank Zeidler, who finished his final term in 1960. More recently, Bernie Sanders served as the independent socialist mayor of Burlington, Vermont, in the 1980s; while Benjamin Nichols, a member of Democratic Socialists of America, served as mayor of Ithaca, New York, in the 1990s. And just last year, 19-year-old Socialist Party member Pat Noble was elected to the regional board of education in Red Bank, New Jersey.
But Seattle is a major urban center, with what many local analysts have portrayed as an entreched politics. So Sawant’s progress has been seen locally as big news. The Seattle Timesheadlined its Wednesday edition “Socialist Sawant Now Leads Seattle Council Race.”
“I think we have shown the strongest skeptics that the Socialist label is not a bad one for a grassroots campaign to succeed,” Sawant declared as the count turned her way.
A former software engineer who now teaches economics at Seattle Central Community College, Sawant ran a Socialist Alternative “Fund Human Needs, Fight Corporate Greed” campaign that argued: “We live in one of the richest cities in the richest nation on earth. There is no shortage of resources. Capitalism has failed the 99%. Another world is both possible and necessary—a socialist world based on the needs of humanity and the environment.”
Sawant pulled no punches in her platform, which began with her signature proposal to raise the minimum wage to $15 and hour and then promised to:
* Seek “A Millionaire’s Tax to fund mass transit, education, and living-wage union jobs providing vital social services.” She proposes to: “End corporate welfare. Tax freeloading corporations. Reduce the unfair tax burden on small businesses, homeowners & workers.”
* Support efforts to “Unionize Amazon, Starbucks & low-paid service workers.”
* Commit to “No layoffs or attacks on public sector unions!”
Sawant won 35 percent of the August citywide primary vote and a place on the November 5 ballot challenging sixteen-year incumbent Richard Conlin. In the officially nonpartisan race, Conlin had the backing of most of the Democratic leadership in a city where Democrats tend to win most elections; he also had the support of a number of major environmental groups. But both candidates obtained endorsements from labor organizations and Sawant won the enthusiastic support of the city’s politically potent alternative weekly The Stranger.
“An immigrant woman of color, an Occupy Seattle organizer, and an economics instructor at Seattle Central Community College, Sawant offers voters a detailed policy agenda, backed up by a coherent economic critique and a sound strategy for moving the political debate in a leftward direction,” argued The Stranger in an editorial that celebrated Sawant’s run. “She is passionate but thoughtful. She speaks comfortably on non-economic issues. She is likable. And most important, she’s winning over voters.”
In August, The Seattle Weekly wrote: “We like her because she’s an honest-to-god socialist who’s willing to throw a few Molotov cocktails into the cloistered hatch-pits of our terribly staid civic ‘debates.’ ”
I use to wonder how anyone in Germany in 1933 could of followed someone like Adolph Hitler but he came on the same platform as Obama does of “hope” and “change.” It sounds good and feels good Nut it brought a nightmare to their country. How could so many follow that misfit? It’s called Blind Loyalty and that is why they followed evil orders against their own citizens in Nazi Germany. They were just following orders was their defense at the Nuremberg trials but it did not work for those traitorous creeps!