Leftists Trash Portland
Police stand by meekly because the Mayor Ted Worthless Wheeler won't allow them to use riot tactics on the rioters. Worthless is part of the problem here and should be charged with state and federal crimes related to the damages and allowing his Democratic Party militant faction (BLM/Klantifa) to run murderous. As I've said on many a time, we moved out of the city because we could see that it was likely to fall prey to destructive far-left crime. The politicians and the people of Portlandia seem to want violence and destruction. They have created and unleashed a monster. Perhaps if they had some classical training, they would have known better. The Art of War, Aesop's Fables, The Bible, and other books designed to instill a common sense and an understanding of how realpolitik operates might have come in handy, but progressives are immune from understanding that human nature is real and immutable. The progressive believes that humans are blank slates that can be molded to whatever the progressive desires with a little help from their academic friends. Oddly, every time the progressive try this Triple Lindy of human social engineering, they fail miserably. The result is the destruction of cities, and people, most commonly the poor and the minority communities. I will keep doing what I can but Portlandia's downtown is dead and will not recover for decades. Even if Porltlandians were to elect ration politicians as mayor and city counsel members, it would only be partially effective. The business lost will mostly not be coming back, and other businesses will be willing to take the risk of locating in downtown Portlandia for decades. Why take that most insane risk when you know the consequences? I expect that even the larger businesses will leave the downtown core over the next few years. Who would want to locate in such a dangerous area with such a nonexistent police force? What are the likely consequences of the feckless policies of Worthless Wheeler? The downtown Portland will simply cease to be a place where middle America comes to do business, shop, or dine. It is Detroit am der Willamette. Portlandia will suffer a massive loss of revenue in part because businesses will close and not be replaced. In part, it will lose revenue because the workers will work from home. Many, if not most, do not live in the city of Portland or will move out of the city and into the surrounding suburbs once they understand that working from home allows them to live much further from downtown and reap the benefits of lower tax rates, lower property taxes, and other benefits. The next few years will likely see a massive movement of people around the metro area, causing serious problems concerning city revenues. The upside is transit in Portland is dead. Light rail never carried more than about 1.5% of all daily trips in the metro area, and bus-only handled something less than 2% of trips in the metro area. Together they were little more than a rounding error for daily trips, at least as many trips were taken on skateboards, and other similar types of transportation. Bicycles account for twice as many daily trips as does all public transit. Get rid of it and cut those costs. But the city cannot, it is part of its strategy to force the people to live in a highly dense Manhattan-style city. This is a joke but the politicians never will give up on it no matter how silly it is. The consequences of the economic decline of Portlandia will be the infarction of the city and state pension system, which will implode the state's budget. COVID, the lockdowns, the tyranny and incompetence of the politicians, the riots, and more will all go down in history as the reason for the fall of the city of Portland. Goodnight Portland.
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