Seattle Politics Transformed: All Blue But Deeply Divided

Folio invites you to join us for the second panel in our Transforming Seattle series.

It wasn’t all that long ago that the political left was largely marginalized in municipal politics. But now, that seems like a distant memory. Over the last decade, Seattle politics has turned into a ceaseless power struggle between left activists who embrace adversarial politics as the necessary pathway to transformative change and centrist progressives preaching unity, incrementalism and a return to Old Seattle harmony and consensus. 

As the American left has polarized and fragmented culturally, our blue city seems more politically divided – along lines of governing style as well as ideology – than it has ever been. How did Seattle get to this point? And what are the political battles we can expect in the next decade? We’ll draw on the results of recent municipal elections, but we’ll primarily focus this discussion on the…