What’s the story with Portland? When did it become so radical? It is still a predominantly white city but it seems the whites are far more radicalized and violent talking and dominate these crazy Antifa led demonstrations. I looked at the 2016 presidential election results -but for Multnomah County where Portland is located, Trump would have won Oregon. But Clinton won that county with 76 percent of the vote (Trump got 17 percent) and a 208,000 vote margin. I have to admit, I was there only once and it was 20 years ago. There was a fairly large number of homeless on the streets but it seemed to be quite nice and orderly in the downtown area.
As the intro to the show Portlandia puts it, “Portland is where young people go to retire...”
I assume like most of the country, it’s the Marxist indoctrination of kids and young adults in education that is coming home to roost. The Soviets were right, they said the way to turn the USA communist was through education and that’s exactly what happened. They infiltrated it, took it over, and now we have a bunch of freakin Bolsheviks threatening the nation and nobody has the balls to declare them domestic enemies and take them out. So I assume this will continue until they up the ante and start mass killing people with bombs and other methods, and then we will see if Democrats and Republicans still run and hide.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” ~ Ronald Reagan.
Leftist teachers and Godless parents turned their children into Freedom hating marxists beginning a generation ago and now the red diaper babies are grown up - well - inhabit adult bodies.
The story of the current situation in Portland is the same as Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. The national highway system made it possible for misfits to find their way west to where the weather was nice and they could move into a place that was basically abandoned for the suburbs.
Years later, as costs climbed back up, they migrated north to Portland. Jobs left and debt climbed since the port closed 4-5 years ago. Enter meth and oxycotin.
I'm thinking it could be because of the high percentage of foreign born people in these democratically controlled cities..
The foreigners want to bring America down, while the young "White" people have been lied to ( By their foreign born professors? ) and have had their brains turned to pure mush by the schools..
I took two trips to the Seattle area sometime between 2013 and 2015.. I said it many times back then and I'll say it again now.. That place, and the people in it, are messed up BAD...!
What’s the story with Portland? When did it become so radical?
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It was know as a city of kooks 40-50 years ago. I suppose with all the **trust fund** babies born in CA, they eventually migrated north to Portland and Seattle ruining both. They took over the schools and began the radicalization - now reaching critical mass.
These kids not only love socialism because that’s what they’ve been taught, but also because many of them receive monthly checks in the tens of thousand of dollars from the family trust fund(s) and have never worked a day in their short lives nor will they ever have the need. They idealistically imagine socialism will bring what they have to the masses, and, to do that, they must destroy the evil capitalist system and the country that gave it birth.