As an American living overseas, I rely on FR and other conservative websites like thedonald.win for a decent pulse of how our country is doing. Since you live in Portland, can you shed some light on the tiresome idiot antifa riots there? How does the average Portlander see them? Is support high for them or are people getting fed up? Any patriots there pushing back?
A cousin of mine is a 70-something, old hippy liberal lawyer living in Portland. How hippy/liberal is she? Well, she has two “husbands”. When we visit, we try not to talk politics, law or religion.
She tries to make light of the Portland riots by saying that they occur only in a fairly small area downtown.
IMO most people are cowering and don’t want to disrupt the accepted dictates. OR...they’re afraid to speak out. I don’t have Trump stickers on my car because I don’t want it to be keyed. I worked at Nike and learned to keep my mouth shut - lots of liberals there. I have neighbors I really like who won’t vote for Trump because they think he’s awful but they hate the riots also. How they reconcile that I don’t know. I blame the media.
I think the election will tell us everything about the tolerance for riots here. I drove through downtown yesterday - think Beirut. Horrible to see what has been done to a once charming downtown. We have 2 candidates for mayor on the ballot - pro-antifa and antifa whose manager is a self-declared communist. I had to write in someone.
However, I’ve been getting my home worked on and so far have 3 workman here who support Trump. One said he was a democrat but no more - and he is really proud to have taken the red pill. But they’re careful who they reveal this to...just as I am. So we will see.