Representative Adam Smith

Piss me off.

OK, I've had to experience that in King County.

And I don't have time to get into a whole bunch of stories about that.

But I've dealt with that sort of approach.

And even during the pandemic, you know, we were just too condescending in the way that message was.

And frequently we turned out to be wrong.

OK, I mean, it's bad enough to be condescending and talk down to people.

But then when it turns out, you're not even right.

Well, that's going to really upset people.

So I think we need to take a step back and say, look, we're not going to treat all 80 million or I forget what the number is of people who voted for Trump and say, you're all awful, horrible.

How about we listen to them for a minute?

How about we say, yeah, we did some things that probably weren't right, but we're going to fix that.

And really, do you want a society where Donald Trump sends ice into your neighborhood and starts asking you for your papers and locking you up if you don't have them?

And that is happening.

OK, it's happening in Chicago right now.

It's happening in other places.

So we can have that conversation, but we got to start from a place of humility, not from a place of moral superiority.

Well said, Adam.

Yeah, three things.

First of all, local government stuff you described is an absolute must in the current environment.