As Seattle pulls it down the Democrat Death Spiral, Washington State sinks ever deeper into a maelstrom of moonbattery, inflicting race-based “justice,” distributing other people’s money on the basis of race, officially honoring Islamic holidays, and now imposing rent control and unemployment benefits for striking nonworkers.

From the approving moonbats at Associated Press:

In the final days of the Washington legislative session, lawmakers hashed out agreements to approve a bill that sets limits on rent increases and a measure that gives striking workers unemployment benefits.

They call it the Left Coast for a reason:

If signed into law, the rent stabilization bill would be among the first in the nation, adding Washington to states like Oregon and California that have sought new ways to curb homelessness. Washington joined Oregon in efforts to give striking workers unemployment payments…

Anyone doubt that this liberal weenie will sign the pernicious bills into law?

There is not much reason to work when the government forces other people to pay you to go on strike instead.

To gauge the effectiveness of curbing homelessness with rent control, look to New York City. The predictable effect is to prevent people from building new housing or becoming landlords.

Democrats want more homelessness, because they think it gives them political leverage. Otherwise they would not deliberately increase it under the Orwellian guise of decreasing it. As communist dictator and Founding Father of modern liberalism Vladimir Lenin is said to have said, “The worse, the better.”

On a tip from Chuck A.