How does it feel to always live behind the times? Despite all your "portland is a very trump kind of place" and "my home area in...
Oh, take that whig off your history, you silly toff.
(Okay though, as brusque anons go, this guy actually read my old posts and pegged his hits to specific points, that’s worth rewarding.)
First off, it’s fuckin’ great. It’s like listening to lowrider music, you get all of the great stuff from across decades and none of the dross.
Second, I told you, quasi-social democracy is still a pretty functioning face of left politics around here, to the extent this was a referendum on the left and right as you experience them I’m not shocked the Democrats won as But Still, Bernie’s Party* and their opponent White Workers Matter took second as a me-too.
We’ll see how left and Democratic politics go from here. Portland’s a nice place, I largely trust it. Really, it’s got quite the treasury of civic trust to draw on. Make America Portland Again isn’t a terrible idea and if Trump doesn’t deliver maybe the Chapo boys have a hat.
And realignments take a while. NYC if anywhere had a nightmare ‘70s but from the dawn of Morning in America it took 14 years of the New Yorker tutting while the New Republic ate its lunch, churches hosting El Salvador sanctuaries and plague Masses, before Giuliani Time kicked off 20 years of Republican rule.
Appfuckers and yuppies moving in (you know, ‘80s New Republic types), black-denim-and-beanies pushed out, we’ll see. Maybe that sanctuary defunding pushes homeowners to vote their wallets over their hearts, we’ll see. The VC app crash is coming eventually, we’ll see. If a Trump realignment reaches the rest of the state and brings one of the legislative houses back red or to parity that’ll matter. Buncha Fight For 15 inspired stuff this year put hella costs on restaurants and service industry which are huge here, seeing a lot of locals put stuff on Facebook about it I wouldn’t’ve expected.
Plus, I mean, the county went blue 51% for Humphrey, 50% for McGovern, 47% for Carter ‘80 (I’m guessing 14% for friggin’ Anderson), 54% for Mondale, 62% for Dukakis, 64% for Gore, 72% for Kerry, and batshit nuts against legendary tyrant George HW Bush.
Who the fuck was behind the times voting against Mondale?