Seattle’s Foolish Battle Against Reality

Looks like another “Summer of Love” is setting up for the progressively virtuous city of Seattle. The weather’s improving, and the bullets are flying. It’s not exactly what Irving Berlin had in mind when he wrote, Nothing but blue skies from now on. On the other hand, if you inhabit Bluesky, the leftist social media platform, your attitude about Seattle’s current crime wave is likely, nothing to see here.

Residents of Seattle’s Aurora Avenue corridor are particularly upset after a recent gun battle between, presumably, rival gang members. They fired as many as forty rounds at each other from opposite sides of Aurora Avenue, so it must have been a pretty serious beef. And this is how beefs are commonly settled in lightly policed, modern progressive cities where they just don’t want to have to put any more black and brown people in prison. So the bullets fly and innocent bystanders best get out of the way.

Remember the last “Summer of Love"? Why, it seems like only yesterday. In those heady days and weeks following the demise of George Floyd, when, despite draconian COVID restrictions, people were nonetheless given carte blanche access to the streets to gather in vast numbers to “protest,” as well as to vandalize, topple statues, burn, loot and assault, all in the name of a useless thug who wasn’t white. And it was then that Seattle’s famed autonomous zone was established, first known as CHAZ, then shortly after as CHOP.

But as predictable as the next sunrise, this experiment in police-free living quickly descended into violence and disorder. It was shut down by the authorities, such as they were, after a few short weeks. But if you think about it, isn't all of Seattle, as well as every other progressive blue city, an experimental autonomous zone of sorts?

And what exactly is a progressive’s definition of “love”? Is it anything more than screaming into the [Blue]sky, “I’m not racist!” and then ostensibly proving it by voting for Marxists who refuse to enforce the law if it in any way inconveniences or interferes with the criminal acts of people of color?

Call me crazy, but it seems like if you really loved your neighbors — and that includes your neighbors of color — you wouldn’t want them to have to live in chaotic conditions where bullets are exchanged between rival gangs and any random person could be struck down.

I have to say it’s extremely difficult to summon up any sympathy or empathy for people foolish enough to vote for leaders who allow this to go on. Not only do those voters have access to all news and information at their fingertips, but they also have access to all the world’s collective knowledge and wisdom from throughout the ages. And yet when it comes to their voting habits, they appear to be as dumb as a box of rocks. It would appear they don’t understand the simplest facts about human nature, its propensity for evil and how evil flourishes wherever excuses are made for it rather than punishments enacted.

I don’t particularly enjoy being the insensitive guy who looks at their plight with this crime wave, then laughs and hard-heartedly says, Who’d you vote for, morons? But they've put me in an awkward position, and therefore . . .

LMAO! Who did you vote for, morons?

Because you can’t tell them anything. You can’t make them understand even the most basic commonsensical things about how to maintain civilization such that it doesn’t unravel into chaos and anarchy. You can’t make them understand that if you are reluctant to arrest violent criminals simply because they are nonwhite, then this is what you will get. You can’t make them understand that the phrase “suicidal empathy” was coined for a reason—and they’re it.

In the 2025 Seattle mayoral election, there was no Republican on the final ballot. So, there was only “radical” and “more radical” to vote for. (Or put another way, “dumb” and “dumber.”) And the voters chose “more radical” and elected a clueless commie Karen. Among other things, she proceeded to turn off public surveillance cameras because they were all too often catching people of color and illegal aliens committing crimes. That just didn't look good.

So now, the Aurora Avenue corridor is immersed in gang-related gun battles, not to mention prostitution and sex trafficking, and local residents and business owners are predictably upset.

"Who the heck are these guys, you know?” asked Rudy Pantoja, who works for the owner of a nearby property damaged in the recent shooting. “Who think they can just shoot up the neighborhood.”

Is that a serious question, dude? They know exactly who they are and what they can get away with, which is most anything. Even though their behavior is what we might call “savage,” they have more common sense than the overwhelming majority of Seattle voters because they understand cause and effect. They understand that because of George Floyd, woke leaders in places like Seattle don’t want to have to put any more black and brown men in prison. And they understand that as long as stupid white voters keep electing such leaders, they, the black and brown criminals, can commit crime to their hearts’ content. They understand they are currently living through a golden age for criminals of color, and while they don’t know how long it will last, things look pretty positive for the foreseeable future.

The Aurora neighborhood folks are so upset over the crime and the lax law enforcement — which they voted for — that they have put barriers up in some streets to reduce drive-thru traffic. And I don’t blame them a bit. But Ann Arbor, MI, another woke city, recently removed all its “neighborhood watch” signs because they were thought to be unwelcoming and racist. If that's true, then aren't physical barriers the equivalent of Jim Crow on steroids? (Hey, I’m just asking questions.)

My biggest question is: What would it take to bring the inhabitants of cities like Seattle back to their senses? What would it take to make them recognize the simplest facts about life, people, good and evil, cause and effect? What would it take to bring them back from preening woke virtue-signaling to bedrock Judeo-Christian morality?

In the fullness of time, and with the grace of God, anything is possible. But in any foreseeable future, it’s hard to imagine that Seattle voters will have any choices on the ballot other than “radical” and “more radical.” And it is admittedly harder and harder for me to summon up an ounce of sympathy for the clueless woke fools who are voting themselves and their cities into oblivion. The natural laws of cause and effect are never, ever wrong and reality always wins.