Will Portland Always Be a Retirement Community for the Young?

New York Times ^ | SEPT. 16, 2014 | CLAIRE CAIN MILLER

[steve86]

I found a bucketful of the dregs of society, queers, addicts, beggars, mental deficients and mentally disturbed of all flavors.

I live 200 miles away and haven't seen much of that while visiting other than part of downtown. The really infested part is probably a few percent of total Portland land area, although there is much liberalism everywhere.

[T-Bone Texan]

"...We remember what America once was, not what the rewritten history books say it was. We look to the future with a sort of fatalistic foreboding, knowing that what has happened will never be reversed without some sort of violent confrontation. We dread what we see in the future - not because we will be in danger, but because our grandchildren will have to repurchase with their blood the freedom we selfishly squandered for our own creature comfort.

I can no longer face my grandchildren without feeling a mixture of love, fear and shame ..."

What you said is incredibly wise.