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"NANCY ROMMELMANN IN TABLET: Portlandization: It Can Happen to a Place Near You. When the crazies took over the city I loved, I knew it was time to get out: “We’ve heard this resolution is mostly symbolic, we’ve heard this resolution will solve nothing,” Wheeler said, making what he was proposing sound not very sweeping at all, a show of earnestness on the part of the government to keep its people safe, and who could argue with that? And if the details of the resolution were not in place, maybe that was OK, you could craft it as you went, could apply it as needed to anything you deemed hateful, a prospect that seemed to alarm only a few people in the room, who may have sensed the resolution could be used on a whim, or as revenge, or to limit personal freedoms. “Who is going to determine who these [hate] groups are?” one member of the public asked. Mayor Wheeler responded, “This last testimony does not reflect anything in the resolution.” The resolution passed unanimously. This invitation to shut up for the greater good might seem quaint, compared with the liberties being sacrificed elsewhere daily, the publishers who pulp books based on fictional characters not displaying subjective standards of cultural verisimilitude, The New York Times ceasing to run political cartoons lest someone take offense, the designer Carolina Herrera being called out for designing a gown with a floral pattern inspired by indigenous weavings. I get we live in an overheated environment where words and food and flowers can get you burned, and have myself been burned in Portland. Still, a city can develop a cast, a tenor, and when that tenor becomes law, you might have reservations about where the place is heading, might sense people taking undue pleasure in stoking their suspicions, might not think the environment one you want to spend any more of your life around. Did I mention I am moving back to New York? At the end of June a colleague of mine, Andy Ngo, was beaten by a group of left-wing activists at a rally here. I say “left-wing activists” because they were said to have shown up in reaction to a protest staged by groups the city considers alt-right. At this point people in Portland march to aggress the “other” side, to goad others into fistfights, to use milkshakes as weapons, the latter a trend bizarrely receiving celebration, the former evergreen, violence seen by people on all sides as somehow necessary to the times. The attack on Andy, who spent the night in the hospital, was instantly politicized. Michelle Malkin started a GoFundMe that in 17 hours raised more than $91,000. Laura Ingraham misinterpreted a tweet enough to make it seem a fact that the milkshake thrown on Andy contained cement. Those seen as progressive insinuated that Andy had provoked people into hitting him; that he was asking for it; some variation of pulling a Jussie Smollett. A friend who posted photos of one of Andy’s alleged attackers online messaged me that people were telling her to “call Laura Loomer. … I personally want to pack up my kids and dogs and leave my house for a week. I have a bad feeling about all this.” Me too. Nothing comes out of the blue, and if you don’t think Portlandization can happen to a place near you, you have not been paying attention." We moved out of Portland more than 20 years ago; it was clear the crazies had taken over, and the place was devolving into feral at a high rate of speed. That was then, this is now, and the city is a human sewer, filled with feral zombies druggies, mentally ill, and progressives still hanging on to the dream of the perfect progressive Utopia, which they do not equate with the reality of Portlandia am Sewer. The city "leaders" want to add a new driving tax, to toll all of the cities roads in an attempt to reduce congestion, and solve the global warming fraud. But the fraud will self solve if you just stop paying any attention to the fraudsters, and ignore it. The congestion was created by the state and local governments demands that all urban areas be ringed with an Urban Growth Boundary and a near-total shift shunting road monies to transit, especially light rail, streetcar, tram, and other astronomically expensive and useless public transit modes. While the governments were structuring traffic gridlock, they were also engineering a social disaster by enacting policy after policy which drove out the reasonable and rational and attracted the feral, the dilettantes, and unproductive. The result is the city is full-on 85% progressive, with huge armies of "homeless" drug addicts and mentally ill committing unconscionable crimes both petty and violent at an incredible clip. Worse yet, the city has become the home base for the Democratic Parties replacement for the violent and militant KKK, Antifa. The politicians here have always been more venal than the average with a huge percentage of our local politicians having trouble with pedophilia, and other sexual crimes. How quaint. Antifa knows that the police will do nothing to stop their violent ways. The police will not even seriously investigate the violence, nor will the District Attorney prosecute. The videos you see of LA or San Francisco are copied verbatim here in Portland. Sad, the area, the region, the state, the Pacific Northwest are incredibly beautiful, but they have been ruined by the horrible people who call this area home.
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