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It has been really depressing to watch the political game that is the death of Sen. John McCain. That’s what it has become to people like Donald Trump and Kshama Sawant — a political game.

The tradition when a sitting U.S. senator dies is that the White House leaves the flag at half-mast until the day of the funeral, but Trump doesn’t like McCain and is being petty about it, so the White House’s flag went back up Monday. But then Trump released a statement Monday afternoon saying he’d lower the flag again until the burial.

Trump isn’t going to the memorial and it’s likely that McCain’s family doesn’t want him there. Trump’s behavior is silly and childish, and it’s a shame, because in terms of strengthening the economy and keeping us safe from terrorist groups like ISIS, he is doing really well. When he plays this childish game of lowering and raising the flag, he just detracts from the good things he has done.

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In his final statement, John McCain was very gracious and talked about the greatness of America. It must be unimaginably hard to know you’re dying and to write your final words. John McCain had a remarkable life of service. He sat in a prison, in a torture cage, in Vietnam. I know that there were a lot of people who disagreed with McCain, politically, but this seems like a time to put that aside.

Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant was someone who could not put those politics aside. Remember her despicable statements after the death of Barbara Bush? Once again, Sawant showed what kind of a hate-filled person she is when she released about John McCain the day after he died.

A politician’s legacy is a political not personal question. An enthusiastic supporter of every imperialist war while in office, John McCain shares responsibility for hundreds of thousands of deaths. To whitewash that is to disrespect those who died in Iraq, Afghanistan, elsewhere

Not to mention the countless working people’s lives damaged by McCain’s support, as a Senator, for brutal neoliberal social and economic policies in the United States. Our solidarity belongs with the millions of families suffering under such policies here & abroad.

Plenty of people are saying I shouldn’t give her the attention she wants for putting up a tweet like that. Sawant craves attention like a 3-year-old child, and that is about the emotional level on which she operates. I do, however, think it’s worth it to give her the attention in order to shine a light on how morally and intellectually bankrupt Kshama Sawant is.

If you’re one of the people in Seattle who voted for her, she represents you. You cannot distance yourself. Those of you who have voted for her, that’s what you supported. It’s scary to me that there are so many people in Seattle who are that far gone. Her leftist beliefs encompass that level of hatred — the level that would choose the day after John McCain’s death as the day to slam him and blame him for hundreds of thousands of deaths .

And then Jay Inslee made lowering the state capitol’s flag a political game. But he did issue a very nice statement today calling McCain one of America’s “greatest heroes.” Now, when McCain was the Republican presidential nominee against Barack Obama back in 2008, Inslee did not like McCain and certainly did not support him. But on the day of his passing, focusing on John McCain’s service and integrity was the right thing to do. At least the governor took a far better approach than Kshama Sawant.