Re: “Party all the time” and “The worrying rise of purity politics in Olympia” (Dec. 14, Opinion):
In all of your reporting and editorializing decrying partisanship, ideology and tribalism, you appear to all the time assume that voters discontent with the Legislature need it to be extra average, keen to compromise and targeted on practicality as an alternative of ideology.
That isn’t essentially true. A few of us need extra pushing for what we see as primary values, not much less. When compromise is important to get incrementally higher measures handed, I’m effective with compromise. However when it’s doable to move a extra progressive measure with out compromising our values, I’m all for it.
Elections have penalties, because the nationwide Republicans have taken glee in saying. If average voters are discontent with progressive legislators, it’s as much as them to vote them out — simply because it’s as much as progressives to vote out conservatives.
Chris Nielsen, Shoreline
