If everything you say is true, why would they bother claiming they were Democrats? The Socialist said she was a Socialist, and got elected. Twice. So I think if they were Communist, they'd come out and say they were Communist.
We fired a gay Mayor because snow fell, and this being Seattle and not really used to snow, four inches paralyzed the city for four days.
The next Mayor, faced with everything from institutionalized racism on a police force that was under a court order to change its use-of-force policies to highway infrastructure that is overloaded every single day to assaults in broad daylight on attorneys entering the county courthouse, chose to spend his time and our millions revolutionizing our snow removal process. Because we fire Mayors who let snow pile up.
So now we have institutional racism on a police force that is still under court order to change, crumbling bridges (one fell down a couple years ago) and a courthouse that is in a war zone, but boy, howdy, two inches of snow fell last year and we had clear streets in twelve hours flat.