I know a lot of people who are having trouble handling the way things are going. The left has engaged in sustained, random, low-intensity violence on a national level. People feel they need to prepare, but they can't retaliate, and that constant edgy readiness is already wearing people down while the left continues to randomly burn and loot with impunity.
Do people have some ideas on how to handle that constant background noise without getting worn down and losing before the fight even begins? I've been able to compartmentalize and just wait to do the job that's in front of me, but not everyone can do that.
Move.
No, seriously, move.
As I see it, there is fundamentally no difference between the riots and looting you see today, and life as usual in a top 25 major metro area. You're seeing all the same shit, it's just condensed. Instead of a year of shoplifting, a couple nights of looting. Instead of years of capital flight and urban blight, a few nights of arson.
The only thing that's changed is the speed at which its occurring.
Leave.
Let them ruin the major metros.
We're moving. Out of Seattle. To another state.
This place will not be coming back to normal America in the foreseeable future, look at the people they keep electing over and over again.
This leadership has seen transgendered strippers at official gatherings, taught required racist policies to its employees, hired a $150,000 a year convicted pimp to keep the streets safe, let homeless overtake the sidewalks and the parks, and put much of downtown just right down the shitter out of business. Oh, not to mention the catastrophe that is Seattle's shrinking police force. I was down there today, oy.
They are turning this city into a dumping place of lowlifes looking for a handout. It's pathetic. I tell you the next 10 years are not going to be kind to Seattle. This is a great time to leave.
Even putting aside Seattle, the state just re-elected the guy who kept the whole state largely shut down since March. And the guy who had the "audacity" to run against him just got laid off after his city decided to defund their police department.
The West Coast is done. And it's sad because I've spent my entire life there.
We both seem to agree completely :) I mean I honestly don't see how the west coast comes back from this to the founding principles of individual civil liberties, I don't see it happening.
I've lived in several post soviet countries, and they will all tell you that this very same shit is what got them there. It's coming.
We're escaping to Montana for Thanksgiving. So hoping that things are better there.
Best of luck. Montana just legalized pot, so I worry about their long-term future with regard to inter-state immigration trends. Hopefully you can stem the tide of Californians now considering the state "in play".
I would say it's only going to get worse, much worse.
My suggestion is to move to some city of a decent size where this is not happening, make it grow as anti-globalist stronghold.
I dunno that you need to leave Washington.
Washington state is, on the whole, not terrible. Having no personal income tax sounds pretty good.
I mean, just looking around on google maps, Quincy looks nice, not that far from Wenatchee.
Out here in Iowa if you're within 40 miles of a Wal-Mart that's considered cosmopolitan (and you get used to the fact that, in a sense, it really is).
You might want to re-assess your definitions of "property rights" and "civil liberties" in the state of Washington. Because you don't have any.
Elaborate. My understanding is Washington caselaw is stand your ground.
I think you've just spent too much time in Snohomish and King counties.
He's already there.