Big liberal-run cities, once shining bright and standing proud, now struggle to survive. Unchecked crime is eating away at many of them from the inside out.
Installed leaders in these big blue cities are compromised and useless. Sadly, they turn away from what needs to be accomplished, choosing not to stop the rot.
This from thepatriotjournal.com.
Good people and businesses pay the price. Streets become unsafe. Shops close. Common sense seems to have flown out the window. Another Leftist-run city is learning a hard lesson. This time, it is Seattle, Washington.
And this city has been stuck on liberal stupid
for a long time—a continuous spiral downward.
Seattle is famous for coffee and technology. But now, it is famous for something else. Public safety is long gone and now a giant company is packing its bags. Microsoft, a company practically born in the Seattle area, is pulling its huge “Build” tech conference out of the city starting in 2026. Why? The city has become too dirty and too dangerous.
The reasons came out in a shocking internal email. Journalist Jonathan Choe posted it in The Post Millennial:
The customers cited the general uncleanliness of the street scene, visibility of individuals engaging in drug use, and unhoused individuals, including the recurring tent in the Arch Tunnel.
This was not an uninformed, half-baked complaint:
Microsoft leaders and their guests saw it all. They walked through downtown Seattle. They saw the filth. They saw the open drug use. They saw the endless tents. And they said, ‘No more.’
This is what happens with soft-on-crime, airheaded liberal policies. Seattle’s Mayor, Bruce Harrell, has been in office for nearly four years. He has failed to clean up this mess. Jonathan Choe called it an “absolute indictment on Mayor Bruce Harrell’s administration.” And Choe is right. The city could not even keep things tidy for one major event. As if that was not enough, this year’s Microsoft conference also had to deal with pro-Hamas activists causing trouble.
[This is] a picture of a city losing control.
When businesses do not feel safe, they leave. Microsoft’s Build conference brought thousands of people and lots of money to Seattle.
According to The Post Millennial:
[Its departure] is a major blow to Seattle’s struggling tourism and convention business.
This isn’t just about one conference. It sends a message: Seattle is not a good place to do business. When leaders let their cities crumble, the money goes elsewhere.
[It’s] a simple lesson [here] that
[liberals] in charge just don’t seem to learn.
Seattle was once called the Emerald City. Now, that shine is gone, replaced by what The Post Millennial called “urban filth.” Even the city’s own tourism group, Visit Seattle, admitted in an email these problems were a “contributing factor” to Microsoft leaving.
When your own team says you’ve failed,
you’ve really failed.
This is a clear warning. Seattle is suffering because of bad choices made by its bad leaders. Their pro-crime policies and coddling of disorder have chased away a major partner. Other cities run by liberals should take note. If you don’t stand for law and order, and if you let your streets turn into open-air drug dens, don’t be surprised when jobs and prosperity walk out the door.
Our great American cities deserve leaders who
believe in safety, cleanliness, and common sense.
