Adam Smith, a long-serving Democrat from Washington State, expresses growing frustration with his party's focus on identity politics and ineffective solutions to pressing issues like crime, homelessness, and drug abuse. While he opposes Donald Trump's agenda, he identifies a need for more emphasis on hard work and personal responsibility, reflecting traditional Democratic values. He highlights bureaucratic incompetence and ideological intransigence as significant barriers in addressing local governance problems, stating that the party has strayed into concentrating efforts on policies that have largely failed to deliver results.
This is a project-like, four years. The new left is a very concerted and well-organized effort around a series of policies that have utterly and completely failed.
In large progressive cities such as Seattle, we've got a real problem with crime, homelessness, drug abuse, and affordable housing.
I've tried meeting with various local agencies about these problems but have encountered bureaucratic incompetence and ideological retrenchment.
I oppose Donald Trump's agenda, but recently I've been feeling alone in my own party-so much focus on identity instead of immediate problems.
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