Seattle's long climb up from crappy innercity ghetto of the 90's when I got here, to the new highrises full of, yes, biotech and internet tech professionals and wealthy condo buyers...seems to be at a turning point.
The 2020 property violence directed at everything new and gentrified in the city center along with a city council and city court system hostile to wealth and high tech has provided those with the means and ability to move to do just that.
The trend will be simple -mobile wealth will migrate to places where wealth doesn't endure crime and political hostility, leaving the less mobile, especially the poor, eating each other in the myriads of ways crime and poverty does.
I loved seeing the slow then rampant ascension of Seattle's urban core over the last 20 years, and I love urban over suburban in general. But the revolutionary paradigm changing goals expressed often explicitly by Seattle leaders and media, and also expressed in deed by radicals on the streets...deserve a direct slap in the face with what counts -a lower living standard via violence and poverty.
Poetic summation: The wealthy won't feel this hurt. The cleaning lady that gets assaulted at the bus stop...will. And the radicals will never have a mea culpa - all they see is a revolution in their heads.
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