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Culture War Roundup for the week of February 19, 2024

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I will say there's a certain dynamic of Asian and Indian immigrants in Seattle where they would prefer a nice city, but they're not willing to DO anything about it, including vote for anyone with an (R) next to their name.

The International District has been turned into an absolute cesspool, and there is a minor epidemic of Asians being randomly targeted and attacked by black people, but there has been almost no political organization around this topic.

The workers who make their money in tech will be gone in a few years, taking their millions in RSU's with them, but leaving behind a legacy of voting for the luxury beliefs that have made the city a much worse place.

I will say there's a certain dynamic of Asian and Indian immigrants in Seattle where they would prefer a nice city, but they're not willing to DO anything about it, including vote for anyone with an (R) next to their name.

Perhaps those with an (R) next to their name support certain policies that are a bigger issue for Chinese and Indian immigrants than violent junkie hobos in the downtown?

It's not a snark, I honestly don't know why Asian Americans have become pro-Dem after being pro-GOP in the 90's.

It's not a snark, I honestly don't know why Asian Americans have become pro-Dem after being pro-GOP in the 90's.

I know why. It's the same transition that happened among college-educated whites. Voting progressive signals high status.

Of course neither party will have policies which exactly line up with every interest group. But as it turns out, for nearly all interest groups, the most important policies are the ones where they line up with Democrats on. Sure, the Democrats may not handle garbage pickup and be soft-on-crime and promote high taxes for you and yours and discriminate against your ethnic group, but abortion or religion or racism. And this is true even if the local Republican candidate is pro-choice, not particuarly religious, and the "racism" is merely noting COVID's Chinese origins. Because it is the Democrats who pick the salient issues for everyone, through the press.