The entire state is run by a tiny sliver of utterly mad liberal degenerates. The view of Salem is that the rest of the state are only worker bees to keep Salem and Portland flush with cash and grocery store shelves filled.
“The entire state is run by a tiny sliver of utterly mad liberal degenerates.”
Yes, and if you look at most states today, you will see a similar picture. The near term “salvation” of some states is that the rural areas still have the politcal power. San Francisco hasn’t a leg up on Portland for being a nutball place. All large cities have become the province of the RATs, and it’s even worse where the leaders are Black RATs (who have the added mantra of thinking that stealing from Whitey is justifiable as payback for slavery and all the “injustice their people have endured”). The people who live in the cities have come to “expect” governmental largesse, and the RATs have obliged with the earnings of the productive people who don’t live there. I am just hoping that somehow the decent, hard-working, productive citizens have finally had a belly full of this crap.