Seattle now has a Socialist on our City Council!  Kshama Sawant. is not the first socialist to win a city election – that was Anna Louise Strong, elected to the School Board in 1916 – but she is the first in 97 years, and the first ever on the City Council.  She will take office in January.

And my friend Annie asked, “What is socialism, anyway?”  The far right makes it sound like “The government owns everything and the government decides who gets what,”  and that equates to no more freedom for anyone, the government controls your life, and we’re all gonna die.

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