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No Red Wave in the Commie State of Washington
Sigh… The so-called voters of Seattle and King County have assured that our entire state is now represented in DC by Democrats. Every single Republican candidate was defeated by healthy margins. Our entire state government is now in Far-Left hands, and the suffering will be increasing. Here are a couple of posts I wrote on my personal blog, describing what is happening in the Leftist-most State of the entire country. We even beat California for that dubious distinction. And I have been released from Twitter/X jail. One great benefit of being there is meeting and interacting with a slew of locals who are conservative, so we have someone to commiserate with!
Published in Election 2024
Sorry for the broken links. They are live now.
I’m sorry for your broken state. I know the feeling.
The only comfort I can offer is that perhaps as things get really miserable, people will wake up. It only take a single car jacking, mugging or family member being assaulted until a flaming progressive switches right over to the center.
As blue as California is, there have been some red wave tendencies that are surfacing.
For one thing, a great many voters are now immigrants from all over the world, and especially from south of the border nations. They’re fully aware that if we continue to let in anyone who can scale a five foot wall, we will not differ from the very third world status that all of them left 30 years ago.
They came here wanting a better life. They watched as kids how their parents worked tirelessly so that when they were adults, they could own a home and have their kids attend decent schools. But massive immigration has meant the inflation of housing prices. The school system has buckled under the weight of so many additional new warm bodies. Teachers now have as priorities ignoring the traditional three R’s in favor of endless DEI and 16 gender discussions.
So they are starting to become a political force. Hopefully they will start demanding that single family dwellings with back yards are once again available. (Most newly built construction is for apartments or luxury homes – no normal housing is being constructed.)
Also they have helped the rest of us vote in Prop 36, which will enforce crimes once again being treated like crimes. Steal $ 960 worth of goods, and that will be a felony with a prison sentence once convicted. Drug dealers will be treated like dealers and not as small time users.
It is not everything that is needed but it is a start.
Hard to believe Washington is more left-wing than California (where I live).
A little info for those other than RushBabe and a few others who live in Washington State, we have 39 counties. They are ruled by voters in 7 – 9 counties in Western Washington, most of which border Puget Sound. So many things I could say but RB has covered the lot.
There has to be a tee shirt that says, “I served time in Twitter jail.”
I know it’s not effective because not enough States have joined, but Washington State has signed onto the National Popular Vote Compact. So have California and Oregon.
Any chance they would recognize the results of the popular vote and cast their electoral votes for Trump? Or, is their street just a one-way street?
One-way street. All-mail/cheat voting gives them unbridled power. Here is what applies here.
New Mexico has signed on too. I’m planning to contact the state Republican Party and suggest that they make noise about getting the governor to recognize the spirit of the law and send Republican electors. Also, to contact their fellow state party officials in the other Compact state to do the same.
I found this particular election very frustrating. The district in which I live is essentially made up of 5 counties, one of them King. When the results were published, all of the non-King county areas were Bright Red. King was Blue, and the person elected to remain as our congressional rep was a Democrat. I have a friend out in Spokane who probably looks at the state map the same way. Just about everything east of lake Washington is Red, but the Blue areas dominate the results for the whole state. I know it aint goin’ to happen, but cutting this state up into two separate states like they did with Virginia and West Virginia sure appeals to me.
We elected three good conservatives for Whatcom County Charter Review Comission. So all is not lost…
The open letter post has been updated with new information.
RushBabe and others, I listened to VDH’s podcast yesterday (11/08) – as I mentioned on another thread. He said in effect, the efforts to make DC and Puerto Rico states should be skipped in favor of states made out of Eastern Washington and Eastern Oregon. It’s worth a listen and I was delighted that he made mention of the disparities in both states that have the Cascades Divide. And yes, it may be a pipe dream.
Thanks, RB, for this post.
Making at least one more new state, is way better than simply having Eastern Washington and Eastern Oregon join into Greater Idaho, which would not change the House or Senate at all.
Please listen to the podcast then revisit your comment. (He did not mention joining greater Idaho, fwiw.)
Fine, but, that’s what many people have called for. And while people in Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington might prefer to be represented by Republicans that Idaho already elects, it doesn’t change things overall. Not like adding another state (or two) would. Shifting a couple House seats from Oregon/Washington to Idaho might help some. But 2 – or 4 – more Senators would REALLY help.
But then California might want to split into multiple states, each with 2 Senators, and an urban area that actually controls the rest of the “state.”
But it is NOT what VDH called for. As stated, listen to the podcast. (If you can’t be bothered, he said that 2 new states could be made: Eastern Washington and Eastern Oregon. Each would have 2 senators and each would have representation in the House. He was decrying the push to make states out of DC and Puerto Rico.) This is not a push to join a greater Idaho.
Again, I was agreeing with the “2- (or 3, or 4-) state solution” while pointing out that those who call for “Greater Idaho” seem to ignore that it wouldn’t change Congress much if at all: They would just be represented by the same Senators, especially, that Idaho already elects. They might prefer that for feel-good reasons, but it doesn’t change things.
And also, one down-side is that creating a new state with a relatively small population could push California, for example, to split up into multiple states that would more than offset the 2 new Senators from… whatever it would be called.
Which then leads to what, Texas splitting up into, what is it, 10 separate states?
And then what?
Either way, this might not be the time to be rocking the boat in such ways.
Which INCLUDES not turning PR/DC into states, either.
May need a brief civil war?
Everywhere you go it’s the high population areas versus the low(er) population areas. I’m not sure it would ever happen, but it would likely make it easier for me to get AR parts. ;-)
Isn’t there a law that D.C. cannot become a state?