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 at all times assume that voters discontent with the Legislature need it to be extra reasonable, 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 fundamental values, not much less. When compromise is critical to get incrementally higher measures handed, I’m superb with compromise. However when it’s doable to cross 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 reasonable 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
