Seattle City Council: "More Equal Than Others"

How citizens of Seattle feel about their City Council. (Thanks, Dwane!)

The style of governance by the Seattle City Council has just been exposed for how it apparently views the people they are supposed serve.

Respect? Forget it!

Courtesy? Nope, ain't going to happen! You've got two minutes to talk, so get to it.

No, they're too important - well, actually, in my opinion it's more like they're just beginning to feel the pressure of their poor decisions now impacting the city and are too embarrassed to look the people who elected them in the eye - to bother paying attention to whoever is speaking during the public comment period.

This is the exact circumstance in which Richard Schwartz found himself at a recent council meeting. His analogous use of George Orwell's "Animal Farm", while hitting the nail on the head, phrase of how "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." is chillingly disturbing.

As I've share from other posts on other topics, many of the urban council meetings are revealing a similar level of repugnance of the public and urgency in their pushing agendas of meetings through as fast as possible while not allowing for much, if any, public input.

I suspect it was extremely irritating to most, if not all, of the Seattle City Council members. In fact, if one listens carefully to where Mr. Schwartz says the phrase, "...speaks to the state of our democracy..." one can hear a clear sigh of disgust in response from one of the council members at the 1:01 mark of the video of him at the microphone.

This, in my opinion, is the clearest example of the liberal/socialist mindset regarding their contempt and disregard for the very people who voted them into their position of power. The reason, I believe, the council members have such an attitude is because they view their position of power as one which "lords" over the ignorant masses, rather than viewing the purpose of their position as being good  listeners of the constituents who put them there.

Mr. Schwartz was right... it is a glaring example of the state of our democracy today... more and more liberal/socialists more recently don't care what those they are supposed to represent think about their decisions.

3/26 Update: Here's an article which provides follow-up information regarding the aftermath of Mr. Schwartz's 120 seconds of notoriety.