The building from above from a recent real estate listing (Image: CBRE)
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As the King County Council prepares to vote on a $56 million plan to create a new Crisis Care Center at Broadway and Union, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has conditionally endorsed the proposal and says the city is ready to “partner” on the new facility.
“Seattle, along with other cities in the County, is facing an unprecedented behavioral health crisis. Too many residents are struggling with behavioral issues without adequate support,” the mayor’s letter in support the plan for the facility reads. “When the Seattle clinic opens it will provide same-day access to care for a person in crisis, which will help reduce the crisis we see on our streets every day.”
In the letter, Harrell says the county and a yet to be announced operator of the center must partner with the Seattle Police Department to assess the former Polyclinic building and its surroundings for safety, execute a “safe operations plan for the building and the surrounding exterior spaces, including public sidewalks and other publicly accessible spaces,” and enter into a Good Neighbor Agreement with the city that “obligates the provider to meet certain safety and disorder standards to be negotiated with the provider.”
The Seattle City Hall letter of support is a key milestone in the so far limited public process around the proposal.
“Collaboration across our region made this major step toward expanding crisis services possible,” King County Executive Shannon Braddock said in a statement. “From the start, King County has worked hand-in-hand with communities across the region, including Seattle, to increase access to behavioral health treatment and services. The City of Seattle’s partnership is a strong example of how local governments can come together to make care accessible. By engaging residents, first responders, local organizations, and businesses, we’ve heard loud and clear the urgent need for immediate care. We know treatment works — we just need more of it.”
CHS reported here on the latest around the plans from the King County Department of Community and Human Services including what company is in the bidding to run the emergency and walk-in clinic part of a voter-approved, $1.25 billion network of five facilities across the county.
Due to contracting restrictions, the county department can not yet reveal if the Arizona-headquartered service provider Connections that is operating its transformed Kirkland location as the first in the network of five facilities across the county has made a bid to also operate the planned Broadway center. In February, the county selected Connections as its “Launch Ready” partner in a plan to purchase the $39 million Kirkland building while providing funding to operate a 24/7 mental health care facility.
In July, Rep. Shaun Scott and Seattle City Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck threw their support behind the Broadway and Union plan and the proposed $50 million acquisition of a former Polyclinic facility at the corner to create the second crisis center location in the system.
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That event came after the county met with significant pushback from the area business community over the proposal.
CHS reported here on the voter-approved county levy in the spring of 2023. Costing median-value homeowners an estimated $121 a year over a nine year period, the levy could raise as much as $1.25 billion through 2032 to fund creation of the five crisis care centers and increase mental health services in the county.
In addition to allowing the county to buy and own the properties, the levy provides companies like Connections access to operations funding plus $2 million annually “in workforce funding to support, strengthen, and recruit their workforce.”
The Crisis Centers must provide 24/7 walk-in care, 23-Hour Observation Units for patients brought in by police “to receive immediate care to stabilize and stay for up to 23 hours,” and “crisis stabilization beds” where individuals can stay for up to 14 days “to receive focused behavioral health treatment.”
The county says that the Polyclinic site offers a number of hard-to-find advantages. It is large enough to support the Crisis Care Center, which calls for 30,000 square feet of space. It has the right zoning and is already built out for health care services.
Kelly Rider, director of the county’s Department of Community and Human Services, has said that a purchase and sale agreement was put in place for the former Polyclinic facility in January. The $50 million plan has been planned to get in front of the King County Council this before the end of summer for approval. Rider said in May that if the process is not interrupted, closing would happen at the end of 2025. The earliest the center could open is 2027.
Harrell’s letter outlines four requirements for the city’s conditional support. Three are focused on public safety concerns around the facility and how it will impact the surrounding area.
- King County and the selected operator will partner with the Seattle Police Department (SPD) to complete an internal and external security assessment based on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles and implement the resulting recommendations to help prevent crime and disorder. The City must review and agree that the recommendations have been successfully implemented.
- King County and the selected operator will implement a strong launch, and ongoing safe operations plan for the building and the surrounding exterior spaces, including public sidewalks and other publicly accessible spaces. This plan should include a definition of roles and responsibilities for building security, provider staff, clients, and visitors. It should include early and consistent activation of the building’s publicly accessible spaces and adjacent public spaces, including parking lots, a schedule of daily exterior cleaning and removal of trash from both the building’s property and the immediately adjacent sidewalks and curb spaces, a cadence for scheduled communications with adjacent businesses, residents, and community groups, and what levels of private security staffing will be provided on a 24-hour, seven days-a-week basis. The City must review and approve this plan before implementation and be given the ability to review the effectiveness of the plan in maintaining a safe and disorder-free area adjacent to the building on a quarterly basis following the opening of the Clinic.
- King County and the provider must enter into a Good Neighbor Agreement with the City that details roles and responsibilities, includes as part of the Agreement the above safety assessment and the launch and ongoing safe operations plan, obligates the provider to meet certain safety and disorder standards to be negotiated with the provider, and provides the name and contact details of a provider staff member who will be the primary contact for community members who have complaints or concerns about safety and disorder issues. The agreement will set forth the protocols and process to proactively manage relationships with the adjacent community, ensuring the safety of everyone in the neighborhood. The City, King County, and the provider must execute this Good Neighbor Agreement before the Crisis Care Center can open.
A fourth is focused on requirements for public outreach and representation in the neighborhoods around First Hill and Broadway.
“King County and the provider shall engage in community outreach and education within a one half mile radius of the building to explain the mission of the Crisis Care Center and detail the safety and disorder measures that will be implemented,” it reads. “City representatives must be invited to participate in this outreach and education effort.”
The city is also giving crisis center officials a two-month window after the center’s planned opening in 2027 to assemble “a six-person community advisory group to work with King County, the provider, and the City during the first year of the Center’s operation.”
“The advisory group will represent the interests of the surrounding community, work to alleviate safety and disorder concerns, and help the Center to achieve its mission,” Harrell’s letter reads.
The full letter is below.
Councilmember Joy Hollingsworth who represents the area around the proposed Broadway center in her council District 3, said previously she conditionally supported the center if concerns around outreach and public safety are addressed.
The city tackled similar issues here 15 years ago. Officials are also pointing to South Lane’s Crisis Solutions Center run by the Downtown Emergency Service Center as an example of a nearby facility that meshes with its neighborhood. In 2010, there was strong opposition to that center planned to provide mental health services to subjects referred by police. “These people are in your community tonight, except they are not getting any help,” King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said at the time.
There are lots more questions — and answers — you can check out the full Q&A document shared by the Capitol Hill Community Council for more.
According to the county, the Polyclinic building has a $38.75 million price tag to be covered by a “supplemental appropriation of $41,568,000 to the Broadway Facility fund.” The county estimates for the buildout will approach $17 million.
The ordinances required to fund and move the Broadway crisis center forward are scheduled to be introduced and sent to committee by the King County Council at its August 19th meeting.
“With the high demand for behavioral health services, opening a crisis care center in the most population dense area of the County is a high priority. In addition, there is a very tight real estate market for medical office space,” the county’s analysis reads. “This property would make quick renovation possible since it already has the correct zoning. There is no guarantee that another property could be found, as well situated, for the same cost of acquisition and development.”
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First off, just gonna leave this here to set the narrative straight on crime:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-data-says-about-crime-in-the-us/
So relieved to see this service coming to a city that needs it in a very central and easy to access location. This will drastically improve access to desperately needed services for so many people, and hopefully also make the jobs of many people in our center city easier in small ways, including the business owners who just loooove to complain about these people suffering from crippling addiction and homelessness in a manner that borders on genocidal intent. That is somewhat sarcasm for all you killjoys.
However, regarding the narrative surrounding this treatment center being largely negative fear-mongering facilitated by the mayor and the SPD: The people being served here are largely suffering from behavioral health issues caused by the society YOU manage and uphold (you being our elected officials who play footsie with extractive corporations, and the police who enforce compliance with our capitalist utopia, which they all love so much). These vulnerable people that will be served at the crisis center have all been failed by the landlord class, the business class, the donor class; the elite of our city and our society.
City leaders–YOUR solutions of austerity and “law and order” fascism have failed to solve homelessness, largely because you are dealing with an innate problem stemming from limiting access to shelter within a private housing market–not individual people suffering a “behavioral health crisis” in some kind of apolitical vacuum. They are certainly in crisis, but that’s cause they have no house. I’d smoke fucking fent too if everyone around me pretended I didn’t exist, including the elected reps of the society I was born in. Their suffering is the result of political choices you have made, and this crisis center being absolutely necessary represents your reflection in the “mirror of morality” (©)
But instead of taking full accountability, we’re made by them to believe this insulting lie of reigning in an out of control class of “druggies” and miscreants–all because the police couldn’t manage to organize themselves around actual societal justice in time for the Neoliberal SHIT to hit the fan. Newsflash–we stopped publicly funding housing at a federal level during Bill Clinton, and now we’re wondering why there’s a housing access and affordability crisis causing people to become so dang homeless that they just give up and start waiting to die of an overdose? If they haven’t yet removed the literacy tests in their mad rush to recruit, the SPD should try reading some Kropotkin or something. Another joke, I already know they can’t read.
The need for this building comes as a given when we’ve let people like Bruce Harrell, Adam Smith, Maria Cantwell, Joe Biden, and of course Donald Trump put the literal seams of our societal fabric up for grabs to the highest bidder. And all the while, the police refuse to use their union to leverage for anything other than pay raises, and then they have the gaul to try and pretend that they are behind this push for treatment and ensuring the “safety of the community” all of a sudden….completely bypassing the entire field of mental health workers who have been CONSTANTLY yelling about re-appropriating the funds from SPD’s military goon squad coffers into more holistic mental health wraparound services. Gee, I wonder why people look at the police as class traitors? ? ?
Your entire premise crumbles because you evoked “austerity and law and order.” In fact Seattle is the exact opposite wit its “harm reduction.”
All the while, we, the citizens of Seattle, are forced to witness the effects of the social justice movement. SStepping over human feces, watching open-air drug use, wondering if that slumping person is dead or alive.
Turn Capitol Hill into a new Tenderloin.
Capitol Hill is already the Tenderloin of Seattle.
It’s hopeless because of the voters. You should just move out like I did.
If things get worse (like a low-achievement candidate wins against Harrell) then I and a lot of people will move out of Seattle. We can’t swim against the current.
Rich, white Capitol Hill is the Tenderloin of Seattle, really? Belltown and Pioneer Square (for starters) would both like a word, methinks.
P.S. What’s up with this comment system lately? The avatars have disappeared and the words at the ends of lines aren’t wrapping, which makes it a chore to read.
The avatars were slowing site down. The wrap is a bigger problem that we’re working on!
LOL!
Ignorance on display. Because words were said? The whole thing is rotten? Mkay snowflake…Sack up now that you’ve had some time.
You in fact simply ignored the facts and it’s because you don’t how they describe facts? They are still facts dude. And you know it.
Your response? You PROVED THE PREMISE!
“All the while, we, the citizens of Seattle, are forced to witness the effects of the social justice movement. SStepping over human feces, watching open-air drug use, wondering if that slumping person is dead or alive.”
NOOOOOOO!
You simply chopped 95% of the facts away to make your rebuttal…Yunno? The whole Reagan to Bush et ilk Trickle Down, War on Drugs, etc has led us to D- infrastructure and the most extreme wealth gap in history. Worse than before the Great Depression. Bank deregulation creates one collapse after another. 20 years WARS!!!
I could go on but you are too into yourself to care. Troll all you want. But you are simply proving everyone right and are a shining example as to why we fight for what we need. People like you who are so out of touch they are a clear and present danger to Democracy and society as a whole. Greed is endless until it’s stopped. So we fight.
Fact is…Your BS got us here and of course you like it that way.
….smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
nothing to say? it’s simple facts. History is a bitch
That’s actually a really good analogy dude…I am stealing it…lol
Kudos
They are working a safety plan WITH the cops and the rest of the city!
Noooooo! This will make the area completely unsafe! No hospital? No safety needed! Save money! Big time money! Hire more cops! Open more jails!
*Head desk**Head desk**Head desk**Head desk*
There we go, Biden is the same as Trump. How’s that working out for the state, for our country, and of course for Palestine. People like you piss me off.
I voted Biden and Kamala, but Palestine would be no different. Ignorant liberal.
I, for one, do not want addicts and criminals on our streets.
It’s so so simple.
Put the care center in Queen Anne, or Magnolia, or Ballard. Not in Capitol Hill. If this is NIMBY’ing, you bet your behind it is. Stop treating Cap Hill as the only place where addicts, criminals and homeless take hold in. Other places exist in King County.
To be fair… Other places in King County didn’t vote for people like Sawant.
I mean maybe you chose this. The totality of residents in Capitol Hill chose the anti-police, pro-criminal, pro-drug policies, politicians consistently.
Enjoy what you sow.
And if you don’t agree with the crowd, you should just move away, because to me, Capitol Hill is a lost cause.
Queen Anne, Magnolia, and Ballard are less dense and WAY less accessible via transit, it would make far more sense to put it here. Am I super pumped about what that’s gonna do to property values? No. But I also know that this is a badly needed resource, and we have an already-built building that’s perfect for it in a place that makes an enormous amount of logistical sense. And know that opposing it would make me a NIMBY asshole. Just…food for thought.
I’m with Gem on this. I too feel like Capitol Hill always seems to end up being the neighborhood picked for programs (mental health housing, halfway housing, transitional housing, etc), but this crisis center needs to be centrally located on transit and with easy access to the freeway.
While I have a kind of jaded outlook on the consistency of the city/county funding and maintaining the safety plan, we as a city really need this resource. This option is cheaper and faster to open than a facility built from scratch. Let’s get on with it and make it work.
We want it so don’t care what you think. The voters spoke. You lost.
I’m so fired of all the zombies around Cap Hill. This will just make it even worse. And that our money is going to a private equity company is sickening. We are paying to screw ourselves so we can “help” people that shouldn’t be here and don’t contribute to our community! In fact they actively work to destroy it every day!
People who don’t pay their fair share of taxes are the people destroying America
I completely agree. Homeless addicts pay nothing in taxes and drain an enormous amount of resources. The wealthy, on the other hand, contribute a ton in taxes and use comparatively few public services.
“Fair Share”
If you are too poor to pay? You do not pay. It’s ALWAYS been that way so whatever. People are greedy. They do not have kids. So why pay for schools right?
Not all homeless people are addicts, first off, and they certainly do still have to use money to buy things. Considering we have such a high sales tax here in Seattle, the pay VASTLY larger percentages of their net worth in sales tax alone than you ever could on property tax or sales tax as a rich person with a much higher income and therefore a much higher amount of savings. Not to mention our property tax is so low here for a major city, and we don’t even have a state income tax (which makes us the 49th most regressive state for taxes, only better than Florida [OH BOY THIS GUY STINKS]).
Just because you pay more money into taxes in total does not mean you pay more per capita…you know…the way you’d actually compare different incomes in this scenario if you were being serious lol.
It’s okay though, most Americans are economically illiterate so you’re in good company.
Wait, where does private equity come in? Missed that one…
Of course it’s going to private equity. These are King County and City of Seattle “Democrats” in action.
Just in case anyone is wondering, this person is not me, LOL
I’m so tired of Tiffanys who call humans “zombieS” get outta here then
Other cities put facilities like this in areas where the likelihood of success will be the greatest and the negative impacts can be minimized. Seattle and King County have done the opposite. I think this will prove to be the knock out punch for Capitol Hill after years of neglect and lawlessness. This area has become one of the highest crime areas in Seattle and it is getting worse. Apparently, the powers that be have decided that Capitol Hill will be Seattle’s Tenderloin District. Drug addicts in psychosis will be brought here from all over the city, county, and beyond, held briefly, and then released onto Broadway with “harm reduction” crack pipes and a tent. Residents and businesses should fight this like the future of Pike Pine depends on it because it does. I expect to hear an announcement soon that QFC will follow Whole Foods lead and close up shop. Contact your elected officials to make your voices heard. This is a big fcking deal.
The building that houses QFC is for sale, so it’s just a matter of time until the entire block goes poof! I walked past the old Poly Clinic building and it seems like the zombies have already moved in the garage areas and the bus stops along the way.
QFC? That place is Hell on Earth. I stopped shopping there. I do not shop QFC anymore anywhere. Safeway and Trader Joe’s is good.
All the “zombies” gravitate to QFC and have for years. QFC is more of an attraction than a hospital. And BTW? There’s mental health facilities all around here. COMPASS for example. No crime there at all. None. Just patients coming and going.
People go HOME after appointments. They come from home to get there. There’s no release them into Cap Hill and let them Zombie. Those are the homeless. NOT indicative of the 99.9% who are normal people with issues they can’t manage themselves. You are afraid of all that right?
Snowflakes. The human condition is too much to take. Make the stuff I do not agree with or understand vanish by any means necessary. Mkay, bold solution that. Let someone else deal with our problems. Crime is WAYYYY DOWN. But okay.
EXACTLY!!!!!! And do these people think that when something positive does happen, every homeless person and person on drugs should just disappear over night??? Lots of magical thinking indicating a lack of serious thought about real solutions imo.
We’ve created hell on earth with capitalism and it takes time to heal our wounds. Crime is going down year over year as shown by national statistics, but helping people out of the crisis we’ve created is obviously an ongoing process that takes time. Not to mention the obfuscation every step of they way from disingenuous actors…
Imagine trying to walk forward, but every step you have a bunch of screaming business owner morons biting and latching on to your ankles like a pack of rabid weasels. That is progress in Seattle.
Part of the thinking is completely forgetting about the successes. The ones needing help are out front. The ones who made it out/survived are not a problem. So they don’t see them at all. Like never existed. Only bad people who’ll never learn and that means helping at all is a waste. Nothing but futility is their argument.
Nevermind paying anything forward. That takes compassion.
Not for me. Car window smashed out 4am Saturday morning.
So you had your window smashed BEFORE it was open?
Do you fear they get help? It’s how you stop that stuff. The cops won’t.
This is so funny…in 5 years when this facility is integrated into the neighborhood and people living here are so thankful for its existence in mitigating even just a modicum of the suffering caused by our human trash class of capitalists, you will not be here commenting about the positive reception. You live on fear, and that’s how it goes…
Nothing they say or do involves paying it forward.
Yeah right, thanks for the laugh!
you sound like a transplant.
It sounds like the city and county are demanding some public safety/quality oif life accountability from the mental health center, which is excellent.
My outstanding question is: what if they break the good neighbor accords? Are they fined? Operating contract cancelled? The who shebang shutters? Or does the government just shrug and say “Ooopsies!?”
Yeah, that’s my question too. This all SOUNDS good, but unless there’s some mechanism in place to hold the various parties accountable if things go south, all of it is basically worthless.
no…you don’t get to put your boot on it’s neck forever. Close it down every time you think it’s too much.
The fact you and those like you are so nonsensically against helping people is the reason people don’t look at you and those like you as stable human beings. It’s all nonsense. Act like it’s the end of civilization to put a medical facility in town. Think about that!
Yesterday I encountered a man walking quickly down Broadway in front of the Harvard Market QFC, ranting and yelling profanities at the top of his lungs. He is obviously in need of intensive, inpatient mental health care. If I had decided to call 911 to summon the police, he would have been long-gone by the time they arrived. So, exactly how is this guy going to get to the Crisis Center for care? He is obviously not going to do this on his own, voluntarily!
I’m sure many Capitol Hill residents observe such a person on a regular basis. Along with the homeless drug camps, and the clusters of addicts buying/selling drugs on our streets, my neighborhood (of 45 years) has become an urban dystopia.
sounds like you’re describing the “yelling guy” who passes by my place twice every day for years now. he’s dealing with something for sure, and I avoid him personally, but I’ve never seen him hurt anyone- people not allowed to have mental illnesses in public? how about the weekend drinking bros that swing thru tearing limbs off trees and puking all over the sidewalks, leaving scooters blocking sidewalks, pissing pretty much wherever- the drugs are here because those people are here to buy them every week with their suburban money. the poverty is here because capitalists have been getting their way for decades, whining about the impact to their money sewers every time we try to put forth alternatives to throwing people away.
Your denialism is astonishing. Try pulling your head out of your….
Yeah…That dude is screaming about his girlfriend alllll the time. She’s a screamer too.
No, it’s not bros from the suburbs who are causing the problems we see on our streets. It is the hard-core addicts/homeless who deal and use anywhere they want to, and despoil our streets with their camps and trash. Just use your eyes and you will see the reality.
I use more than just my eyes, in fact- ever talk to any of these people? (I’m not interested in your answer)
Dang, well wait til you see the rest of the country Zach. It’s all a dystopia! Drugs (and those addicted to them) also exist in other cities, dontcha know! Wanna try to start connecting the dots at a more societal level since, ya know, it’s affecting our whole society? Can’t just blame blue hair millennials or zoomers forever cause they do grow older with you lol…
Now it’s all the Gen Alpha being lax on the homeless from watching all that Skibidi Toilet on their dang ipad!!!
And stop infantilizing people going through crisis, you might be surprised to know they’re human adults too who are able to recover with some patience and understanding. You’re just lucky no one is able to ID your anonymous comments to point and laugh at you in real life for being so dense (like you love to do with these vulnerable people)
Red States are highest crime and least livable in America. They depend on Blue state money to survive.
These people do not care about facts. It’s about repeating what they are told.
Zach you’re right. These people are delulu, only in Seattle do people do backflips to defend the degeneracy on open display everywhere in the city’s core, Cap Hill is absolutely an area in crisis. Maybe it’s time to move to another part of town where people don’t think living in a high priced ghetto is ok.
Do it…you won’t!
“Seattle, along with other cities in the County, is facing an unprecedented behavioral health crisis. Too many residents are struggling with behavioral issues without adequate support,” the mayor’s letter in support the plan for the facility reads. “When the Seattle clinic opens it will provide same-day access to care for a person in crisis, which will help reduce the crisis we see on our streets every day.”
Perhaps a modicum of economic justice and economic democracy would be of assistance in the broader picture. But that’s an issue most “Democrats” won’t touch anymore, as the non-viable political “party” sold its soul to Wall Street half a century ago and became Rockefeller Republican in drag. Western democracies have varying but decent degrees of economic justice and democracy, and sensible safety nets and taxation structures; but then, I don’t consider the US to be a Western democracy anymore, nor a decent culture. I’m with the late Princeton professor Sheldon Wolin, who considered America to be an “inverted totalitarianism,” just very subtly and skillfully controlled by the plutokleptocrats who’ve been running the show again in the Reagan Restoration, now cemented by Trump.
Very well said. We manifested fascism at home by taking our overseas colonialism and turning it on ourselves. With the combination of our foreign policy post-Reagan primarily being a bipartisan effort, and it also being the issue most voters are the least educated on…it’s no wonder our sadist nation is in such a sorry condition. Classic chickens coming home to roost moment.
We used to have multiple socialist and communist parties at the national level last time this country saw such “plutokleptocrats” holding power 100 years ago, but no modern analogs exist to combat them this time around…any detractors on here wanna try to connect those dots? Where’s our modern Smedley Butler?? If he can figure it out so can you.
Comrade! Glad to see that you figured out our problems.
Are you and Smooth texting from the same tent?
Seriously, the tent behind the gas station near the Trader Joes?
No, I am here with Alt Right members of congress in an oxygen tent at an assisted care facility in Boca.
The summer of your discount tent.
Yanqui! Nope, just both live in the city and don’t have our heads up our own asses. Amazing how people can agree without even knowing each other…it’s almost like we share a set of morality-based values.
Why, yes I am a Yanqui. Now you’ve got me interested. What are you?
Reagan found a way to cement wealth incumbency for the elderly. Tiered union contracts if the union wasn’t busted entirely. The entire plan was “It won’t harm you” “It’ll be passed on to the people after you” and the greed was the fuel.
Today for example?
They’ve twisted Social Security into an investment slush fund. 1.4 trillion transferred from young to old yearly. It takes 3 kids to support one Boomers retirement. Less people paying in. More people taking out who did not pay their way. Everything was handed to them cradle to grave. The tax code is the leading indicator. Before and after Reagan. The kids who pay in? Will only get a fraction of 100% to “save social security” if it doesn’t get privatized outright by these idiots. That will end the program. But again, It will not affect Boomers….Just everyone else. $$$$$$
Now it’s D- infrastructure. 34 trillion in debt and a fascist govt. based on an uneducated electoral base of cultists who’s only consistent success has been voting against their interests for 50 years. And they wonder why we can’t stand them and regard them as a clear and present danger to America and everyone in it.