Do you most prefer the politics of Los Angeles, NYC, or Seattle?

[Simfan34]

Seattle may soon become a two-party city of Democrats vs. Socialists, and even if you don't like that prospect, it is certainly the most intriguing of any of these cities.

You mean Democrats and one socialist.

[Simfan34]

Seattle may soon become a two-party city of Democrats vs. Socialists, and even if you don't like that prospect, it is certainly the most intriguing of any of these cities.

You mean Democrats and one socialist.

Yes, for now, but the Socialists definitely have a very strong presence in the city, particularly in neighborhoods like Capitol Hill and the U-District. Republicans almost never run for city-wide office anymore, but Socialists do all the time, even if they have only won one election. I can easily see someone like Jess Spear winning an open-seat race, and Nick Licata and Pramila Jayapal are both pretty much on par, if not to the left of Bernie Sanders, even if they identify as Democrats. It's not a huge leap to see the Socialists making a play for their seats when they retire.

Jesus. I see there is more than one Socialist. Time to impose direct rule?

Of course, Seattle still hasn't matched Milwaukee, which, if I recall correctly, regularly elected Socialist mayors for several decades.

Socialist Alternative on the whole is pretty bad, yes. But there are of course good comrades in every organization, albeit ones with confused politics. I'd reserve the 'class traitor' title for groups like the ISO or the SWP in the UK, though, given their open support for the destruction of the Soviet Union and the eastern European deformed workers' republics in the late 1980s and present day Sinophobia

At least they are advancing the "Proletarian Cause". Your faction is doing...?

[Simfan34]

Wait, are you actually saying your views are so ideosyncratic that there's no left-wing splinter group that matches your views? I mean, you have Maoists out there! (I don't know if one can still find any Hoxhaites.) Surely there must be something?

As for a group with roots in the working class, well... I wish you luck. I know quite a few socialists and such. Not a single one of them came from anything less than an upper-middle class background.

[Simfan34]

Then join those, if they float your boat.

While I speak in good faith all the same, I have to say that it would be simply hilarious if you were to go and found your own Socialist group because you didn't like all the other options. It would be a bit... typical. As well as incomprehensible to those of us who put up with their parties! I suppose the stakes are lower when one deals with something less momentous than the swift and total transformation of society.

Either way, I hope you can find something...