Seattle is a diverse, vibrant community that needs to give more attention to the underprivileged, but installing their advocate in the major's office is not the way to accomplish this goal. Instead, it's an invitation to mismanagement (this is an executive position, and Oliver lacks the necessary experience) and, worse, polarization (would she really understand how to balance competing interests?). The Bernie Sanders-inspired notion that we need a "political revolution" from the bottom up that takes command of government is simply wrong. Rather, we need much more effective grassroots organizing than the Occupy horizontalists gave us, and that's where Oliver probably belongs. We also need representatives for the underprivileged on the policy side, that is, the city council, but we already have  that. But to promote a People's Party candidate for mayor essentially asserts that the majority of us in Seattle don't need, or deserve, representation. Not true.