our friend @SlavojT has been posting about the multiple failures of Left electoralism and end result of urban patronage in Seattle.

For those of you who haven't lived in this city for extended periods of time it's hard to even articulate how dysfunctional it was before CHAZ.

Now that the little revolutionary LARP has ended, and we're left with cleaning up the party, it's a seriously depressing sight to behold.

Seattle has long had an issue with investment properties maximizing their use of real estate on the parcels of land they are using.

A labyrinth of cement where the only green you'll see is a potted plant behind a window of one of a lobby. The constant construction of new investment properties renders half the sidewalks and even streets closed, leaving only chain-link fence and plywood to punctuate the grey.

Among all of that is a constant stream of homeless people looking for somewhere dry and warm to rest. There are no benches, no corners for them to sit. Some sprawl out on the sidewalk, much like their rent cities that they've erected under every underpass and forgotten corner.

They are a constant fixture. They elicit sympathy, and pity, but they are so numerous there's nothing an individual can do, aside from step over their needles and smashed bottles in the street.

Seattle was a boom town. Tech came and transformed this city from a middling--

industrial power to a economic powerhouse virtually overnight. Taxes went up, especially sales and vice, creating what is the most regressive tax structure in the nation, shouldering the burden on the poor more than the rich.

Every dime has been squandered.

Floating bridges that sank into the lake they were built across. Renovating a monorail from the 1962 world's fair that travels about a mile. A multibillion dollar boring machine to dig a tunnel to get rid of the only urban highway across the city for the sake of property values.

But nothing, absolutely nothing, to address the homelessness problem or cost of living. That is also a big part of it, because of the cost of living renders most people sharing often 1 bedrooms or studios with roommates, the culture to the homeless becomes even more hostile.

The city remains a massive monument to the failures of globalist, technocratic urban patronage! All the programs designed to solve the problems of middle class residents has made life worse. More apartments by foreign real estate investment and relaxed zoning meant less green.

Less space for the homeless to rest. It didn't lower rent. Money dumped into the dozen public transportation systems created an impenetrable mess at massive expense to the public.

Everyone broke. Everyone miserable. Everyone taking about leaving.