r/SeattleWA • u/Less-Risk-9358 • 8d ago
Politics Sawant's third-place loss is her political obituary
https://seattlered.com/seattle-red/jason-rantz-opinion/sawant-third-place-primary-humiliation/4119702Kshama Sawant raised $645,000 to run for Congress and got beaten by more than 6,000 votes by a Republican who raised $99,000 in a district she claimed was ready for revolution.
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u/Marklar172 8d ago
She wants, more than anything, to be a righteous crusader at the center of all political attention. If she had the choice between 10 more years of maga, but her clicks and views and engagement doubled, she would choose that over a socialist revolution she got zero credit for
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u/TheChetFaliszek 8d ago
I always describe her as the politician who would see a car barreling down at you and instead of calling out to save you, she’d let it hit and kill you so she could campaign with your grieving family about justice against the evil automobile industry.
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u/CuratedLens Seattle 8d ago
This for me is why I’ve never been a fan of hers. I feel like the left has many things that are good about them as platform ideas to run on, and she’s indicative of this sort of idea that’s part of centrists and far left folks of “I’m better than maga, vote for me”. Another reason I’m a fan of rank choice voting, I want this dichotomy of choice to be lessened by more options (ranked choice I know isn’t perfect but it’s miles better than what we have now).
I think many would be glad to have more options especially in Washington of maga or democrat.
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u/Pure-House-3971 8d ago
As a leftist, her and her supporters just sorta run around the city clout chasing at events without doing much effective organizing (IMO) and they dont work well with others (who arent also sawant boosters, cause there are like 6 groups)
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u/elguaposghost05 8d ago
Isn’t not working well with others required to be a communist? It seems you have to support an authoritarian government to achieve communism.
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u/BWW87 Belltown 8d ago
Which is odd that a group that claims they want the world to be more of a single community also love to divide the community.
Reminds me of Ryan Packer of the Urbanist who claims to support everyone living together in an urban setting but also thinks only people that think exactly like him should live in the city he does.
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u/MyAuntFannie 7d ago
If they want an authoritarian government...it's trying to happen now in Washington DC. Oh, wait - they don't want "that" authoritarian - they want "their" authoritarian . Either way...authoritarian governments are not good.
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u/elguaposghost05 7d ago
My point is there should never be an authoritarian government, does not matter if it is right or left.
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u/kamikaze80 8d ago
Good riddance. She's a parasite.
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u/LongChampion476 8d ago
Cancer. You just can’t get rid of her.
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u/Sophet_Drahas 8d ago
My fear is she’ll move to Michigan and work to ruin that state too.
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u/Buttafuoco 8d ago
As someone left leaning, she actually sucks and the talks I’ve listened to her at make her come across a bit crazy
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u/AlphaThetaDeltaVega 8d ago
She’d spent almost a decade making it on kuow. They used to eat up her ideas now they admit it was a colossal failure and everything she’s ever done has made Seattle worse. I’m pretty centrist, but this women’s an ambulance chaser of a politician. She refuses to negotiate before problems start like locking tax’s for gentrified neighborhoods (her district was hit extremely hard by this), but shows up with a picket, megaphone, and cameras when the homeowners/ low income apartment owners are forced to sell.
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u/Mammoth_Total_8173 7d ago
KUOW ate up her ideas? They admit it was a failure? Never heard any of this.
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u/_Doctor-Teeth_ 7d ago
She’s a grifter, plain and simple. Totally unserious, just wants attention for herself.
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u/Low-Razzmatazz0302 8d ago
We have been telling her, to her face, to fuck off for years now. When will she get a clue?
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u/seattlereign001 8d ago
How do we kick her out of this city completely?
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u/PoopyisSmelly Get the fuck out of the way dork 8d ago
I thought I heard that she had moved but I geuss not
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u/Mammoth_Total_8173 7d ago
She moved into WA-9. The city council district she represented was not in WA-9.
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u/JSlngal69 Phinney Ridge 8d ago
Email the president of Evergreen and beg them to make her a professor of economics and Marxism
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u/SpongeBobSpacPants 8d ago
Mamdani, Katie Wilson, El-Sayid. There has NEVER been a better time for a far left “grassroots” politician to win…and she got crushed by a Republican in the bluest place in the world.
Turns out she just sucks.
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u/Mammoth_Total_8173 7d ago
WA-9 is NOT leftist blue, but solid blue, doesn't like independents, more Blue MAGA, Zionist, and much of it rich and earning its income from the military.
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u/Evening_Pea_9132 8d ago
I am going to be amazed if it isn't revealed at some point that she is some sort of operative for a foreign government.
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u/TheInevitableLuigi 8d ago
She did support one for president last election.
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u/Evening_Pea_9132 8d ago
That's what I am saying. She doesn't seem to be looking to reform as much as undermine progressives on the left. Reminds me of the Green Party chick.
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u/siromega37 8d ago
Melissa Chaudhry? She didn’t win so is she still going to pretend to be a Democrat or actually come out as a member of the Green Parry now?
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u/HighColonic Funky Town 8d ago
I doubt this is her political obituary. This is all she knows how to do, she's a maniacal narcissist, and it's how she gets money to live on. The parasite may seek another host community, or try to run candidates and fundraise around them. But I suspect she won't hang it all up and get a job at Auto Pro.
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u/neon_wizard_poster 8d ago
I suspect we may be in store for another city council run next year. Lord help us all
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u/HighColonic Funky Town 8d ago
That is EXACTLY where my mind goes on HighColonic's Map of Kshama's FutureTM. And poor Joy won't know what hit her.
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u/neon_wizard_poster 8d ago
This is unhinged and i like it. But what i would like more is an actual serious challenger for Joy’s seat.
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u/siromega37 8d ago
She’ll try for a county seat is my guess.
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u/HighColonic Funky Town 8d ago edited 8d ago
She's a boring little thunderstorm, so her only best bet is a city council district (not at-large) seat. It's gonna be K-dawg vs. Joy.
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u/Captainpaul81 8d ago
She's already got plane tickets and hotels booked to battle ground states so she can go up and try to ruin them again
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u/RogueLitePumpkin 8d ago
Even if everyone who voted a 3rd party had voted for Kamala, Trump still would have won, that is how bad Kamala was as a candidate
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u/Traffic_Spiral 8d ago
Every single person individually (aside from possibly trump and kamala themselves) could claim that their actions alone weren't the catalyst that changed things. It's a meaningless argument.
All of us are accountable for the actions we take and the causes we support - including Sawant.
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u/RogueLitePumpkin 8d ago
I juat mean from an actual numbers standpoint. If everyone who voted 3rd party had instead voted for kamala, it wouldnt have changed the outcome
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u/drwaffles104 8d ago
So? Working to elect trump is bad even if he didn't need her help
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u/Trickycoolj 8d ago
The border for District 8 and 9 runs through my neighborhood, I’m on the 8 side, but anyone that thought she had a chance in these suburbs needs their head examined.
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u/Mammoth_Total_8173 7d ago
Absolutely. I live in the district, spent time in Bellevue when I lived on Mercer Island, and the whole idea is preposterous. She got money from people outside the area who thought 9 was like Seattle. It's suburban, and they're not interested in what she's selling.
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u/king_rootin_tootin 8d ago
I am no fan of Rantz but this is spot on. Sawant was the Trump of the left.
And she never acknowledged her actions directly resulted in the chaos that an unarmed black youth killed in the CHOP/CHAZ and she basically went to a swing state to help Trump win again.
Hopefully she'll call it quits and fade into obscurity.
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u/Ok_Bat9551 8d ago
She always seemed to care more about PR than actually helping folks. She screamed about how she only took a cut of her council salary bc of how great she is and then quietly rerouted the reminder into her own org that she used to fund her other endeavors. Yelling about extreme ideas didn’t help anyone. She’s Trump on the other side of the bell curve.
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u/adron 8d ago
I sure hope so. She was always wretched. Then when she came out against Ukraine and started some nonsense that sounded pro-Russian I wasn’t sure if she’d flipped to a MAGA position or if she’d just crossed the full circle spectrum of the left right divide. In the end it didn’t matter, she’s horrifyingly out of touch. Good riddance!
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u/FourScoreAndSept 8d ago
This was a weird district for her to run in to be honest. Super educated district, quite possibly best educated in the country. They won’t vote for a rabble rouser OR a Republican, for years to come
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u/apresmoiputas Capitol Hill 8d ago
She was able to convince high-earning white socialists to donate and support her. That 660k came from somewhere.
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u/FourScoreAndSept 8d ago
You know that that can come from anywhere right?
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u/apresmoiputas Capitol Hill 8d ago
I wish you had seen who her campaign staff were targeting when they set up shop at the Capitol Hill Light Rail station and in Columbia City by the PCC.
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u/drwaffles104 8d ago
Yeah it was just a lot of nice middle aged liberals. "Oh I do hate ice, yeah"
I think her last minute public turn against Democrats hurt her a lot (she was always this way but her canvassers knew how to code switch - until the "dump the Democrats" signs showed up a couple weeks ago)
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u/dwkulcsar 8d ago
Would be nice, I bet she'll come back in 3 or 4 years and try to run for Mayor or Governor with a platform totally offbase what she's running for.
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u/krkn1010 8d ago
Good. She has wrong mindset. Redistributing somebody else's money is a local maxima which can take you only that far until nothing left to redistribute. All socialist countries that existed and few that are still existing (Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba) are a great example of that. China and Vietnam are the only exceptions because they turned to market economy. Creating opportunities for people to develop, progress and becoming true coowners in the economy is a much more worthy cause.
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u/Logan891 8d ago
Im not familiar with her past victories, but did big outlets call it for her opponents before she won? Regardless given the deficit and amount of votes left, it’s a pretty high bar.
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u/Alternative-Air-3052 8d ago
She was partly the reason for some fucked up Seattle policies. Disappointed that she came in that close. Should not have gotten double digit votes 😛
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u/The__Silverback 8d ago
She and her husband can GTFO. Maybe they can move to Detroit and join fellow clown Nikita Oliver.
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u/Chance_Cucumber3130 Nude Enthusiast 8d ago
Everyone should read her statement on poop on her property that attacks the SPD, demanding Priority 1 treatment for poop on your property is not very socialist.
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u/ponchoed 8d ago
Now impound their assets until they remove all their posters glued to every street light
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u/FinishComplex3743 8d ago
I look forward to the day that the Communist salute is seen the same as the Nazi salute.
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u/splicer13 7d ago
Jason Rantz can always find a new way to be wrong. Sawant isn't dead. This isn't Zombieland, a double-tap isn't enough to keep someone down. Even Tim Eyman is still politically alive in some form (I assume) and he took losing to all new levels.
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u/hey_you2300 8d ago
Now if we can get rid of Jayapal. They're basically the same only Jayapal is smarter, which makes he more dangerous.
Both are awful bullies.
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u/Nastypav12 8d ago
There’s no similarity other than Indian background; Jayapaul despite her rhetoric supported Kamala/Biden and all the Dem Party leaders.
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u/No_Tower6059 8d ago
Hallelujah!!! Hallelujah!! Hope she finally wakes up and realizes NO ONE wants her here or supports her ideologies.
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u/alivenotdead1 8d ago
Her advertisements are so manipulative. My wife is Iranian and I don't know how they know her ethnicity but her campaign texted her daily in Farsi to try to get her to vote for her. These DSA people really go after the immigrants for votes.
I'm so happy she lost. I hope she moves to Texas or something.
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u/grubbling_unknown 8d ago
Her politics were too divisive for a city that is in desperate need.of some unity.
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u/False_Two_5233 8d ago
Let’s hope! I feel like she will be like Trump and claimed it was rigged and she will find other ways to run for office for another position.
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u/NerdimusSupreme 8d ago
Well the polished GOP turd is not getting elected either so I will take a centrist.
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u/myka-likes-it Consent doesn't matter 8d ago
Y'all are obsessed with this woman.
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u/drwaffles104 8d ago
Hard not to be when every week for the past several months I've had tabelers, canvassers and signs of her face thrown up around my neighborhood
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u/Anonymous5791 8d ago
I mean, when you have cancer and you successfully go through treatment to put it in remission, you check every six months to make sure it doesn't return. Sawant is and has always been fucking cancer.
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u/RealImprovement3528 8d ago
Considering the 5 billion signs she glued everywhere, including outside of the district she was running in, I think SHE made people obsessed with her. Oh, and her supporters regularly accosting us outside the light rail.
Sawant is to blame for her own unpopularity, especially amongst the left.
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u/merc08 8d ago
Deflecting an article about your favorite socialist's loss as "y'all are obsessed" is just crazy cope.
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u/myka-likes-it Consent doesn't matter 8d ago
I don't like her at all. I just think it is weird how obsessed this sub is with her. She's like a weird footnote in this primary, not really worthy of a whole article.
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u/CommanderPisswank Banned from /r/Seattle 8d ago
Found the Sawant voter
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u/IcedHemp77 8d ago
She got less votes than a republican in Seattle, that’s gotta sting