The Socialist are coming, the Socialist are Coming!

"A Rare Elected Voice for Socialism Pledges to Be Heard in Seattle"

KIRK JOHNSON; December 28, 2013; New York Times

People are used to liberals running things around here. But nobody reckoned with Kshama Sawant. Ms. Sawant, a 41-year-old economics teacher and immigrant from India, took a left at liberal and then kept on going — all the way to socialism.

When she takes a seat on Seattle’s nine-member City Council on Jan. 1, representing the Socialist Alternative Party

Ask her about almost any problem facing America today, and her answer will probably include the “S” word as the best and most reasonable response. Socialism is the path to real democracy, she says. Socialism protects the environment. Socialism is the best hope for young people who have seen their options crushed by the tide of low-wage, futureless jobs in the post-recession economy.

Progressive liberals — some of whom might look radical as well, at least to conservatives — made inroads in other places on Election Day, notably in New York City, where Bill de Blasio won the mayor’s race partly on his plan to address the gulf between the “two New Yorks” of poverty and wealth.

So should an elected 21st-century socialist hark back to the old Marxist passions of labor and capital, or more toward the welfare-state model of market regulation and high taxes on the rich?

Asked about Boeing, which is currently in a standoff with its biggest union and is threatening to expand outside its historic home base in the Puget Sound region, Ms. Sawant said the company was guilty of “economic terrorism” by “holding not only Boeing workers but the entire state’s economy hostage to their endless desire for profits.”

The daughter of a schoolteacher and a civil engineer, Ms. Sawant said she was seared by the disparities between the rich and the poor around Pune, India, which is near Mumbai and where she grew up. But she was also shocked, and radicalized, she said, by finding sharp income inequality in America when she immigrated here in her 20s.

COMMON SENSE REVIEW:

People like this are like chicken little "Life's not fair, Life's not fair!", yet feel that their ideas will make life fair without consideration of human behavior.  We all have the right to decide our lives and must take responsibility of our actions.  However people like this honestly feel people are being held down but keep no consideration people can pick themselves up. 

Unfortunately, creating laws or ordinances with a Socialist view doesn't create a strong economy..  A strong economy boosts so much.  Happiness in the family with jobs and no financial struggles, more tax dollars into the municipalities, and even more money available for grants to projects...