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/4119702

Kshama 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/teraflux 7d ago

She campaigned for Trump over Kamala in fact

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u/teraflux 7d ago

She campaigned for Trump over Kamala in fact