Seattle business leaders are offering an inspiring lesson in how to stand up for average citizens — who after all are their employees, customers and neighbors — against a political class dominated by the left.

As the city’s socialist mayor chases her own agenda, CEOs from corporate heavyweights like Microsoft, Starbucks, Costco, Zillow and Nordstrom are demanding a “credible public-safety plan” that tackles deadly violence, open-air drug markets, and lagging police response times.

What a shocker: Those “big evil corporations” actually want a better quality of life for Emerald City residents whose money and labor they rely on.

Other cities run by progressive Democrats face similar struggles.

Los Angeles faces rising property crime, retail theft and property abandonment — plus a homeless plague that Mayor Karen Bass seems able only to worsen.

By contrast, San Francisco is seeing major progress, with murders last year dropping to a 70-year low of 28 in 2025.

Civic organizations like Advance SF and the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce played a key role in electing Mayor Daniel Lurie in 2024 (as well as in ousting far-left DA Chesa Boudin in 2022) to turn the corner by re-emphasizing common-sense public-safety policies; safer streets and increased police presence are pulling visitors and shoppers back to key commercial districts.

New York business leaders, take note — unless you actually enjoy getting steamrolled by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s  anti-business, tax-the-rich, free stuff agenda.

Gotham’s top executives have yet to mount unified opposition to Mamdani’s refusal to expand the NYPD and his tolerance for sprawling homeless encampments — a disregard for civic order that Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch shouldn’t have to counter all on her own.

Mayors steeped in progressive ideology are blind to what their crusades cost regular citizens.

Out of civic duty and self-interest, business leaders need to stand up for the people the politicians forget.