Do the rich pay fair taxes?
I saw on facebook the following image It was accompanied by this explanation: The left continues to promote false claims, which too many people believe. For example, it’s reasonable to debate whether the rich...
Category: Progressivism
Bernie Sanders, please stop calling yourself a socialist. You’re a social democrat!
Bernie Sanders calls himself a democratic socialist. But he’s not a socialist at all, not even a democratic socialist. Words matter. Use them carefully. Noam Chomsky and Cornel West say that Sanders is a...
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....
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...