KOMO is the ABC affiliate in Seattle and they just did a brutally honest hour-long special on the homeless problem in Seattle.
I lived in Seattle for 15 years, and consider it my hometown. It’s heart-wrenching to see what it has become.
Oh: Last Republican mayor in Seattle left in 1969.
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ALL cities are dying. They have outlived there usefulness. Cities developed in the US as trade, and then manufacturing centers, and were dependent on sea, river, and rail for transportation. With the coming of the Transportation age, ca. 1950, transportation shifted to trucks, and people could commute much greater distances by automobile. Manufacturing started leaving the cities. With no need for co-location of manufacturing and distribution, trade started leaving the cities. Now, both are absolutely dependent on 53 ft trailers, and cities, planned and built 100 or more years ago do not have and cannot develop the infrastructure to support big trucks, necessary to support either manufacturing or trade.
With the information age in full swing, it is no longer necessary to congregate offices and call centers in cities. Tele-commuting is changing the face of business. Cities are already dead and decaying, and don’t know it. The only cities likely to survive, in any form, are deep water ports… for now.
Wow, that is a powerful video. To me this speaks very clearly to the comment I have heard Bill say many times. “Democrats would rather rule over the ruins of what they have purposefully destroyed than to let someone else into leadership”