Is the state party turning to the right?
In this New Yorker interview We Are Sleepwalking Into Autocracy, Sen. Chris Murphy says: [I]t can be true that some of the orthodoxy of the left put us in the position of being unelectable....
Category: Progressivism
Rep. Adam Smith’s opposition to the “Far-Left”
In a series of interviews, videos, and articles, Rep. Adam Smith has criticized what he calls “the far-left,” “the extreme left,” “radical identity politics,” “left-wing facsists”, “the new left”, and “left-wing totalitarianism.” This is...
Can government serve the people? Libertarianism, anarchism, and Big Government
Central questions for Americans, and for progressives in particular, are: Should we be in favor of top-down Big Government that serves the people? Or will government always serve the 1%? Should we instead be...
Welcome to State of WA
The aim of this website is to provide a forum for news, discussion, and activism from a left-of-center point of view (e.g., Democrats, Socialists, and Greens). But polite and reality-based opinion and news are...