{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "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...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/154757222623/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: 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 pennsylvania is going to flip\" Portland OVERWHELMINGLY REJECTED TRUMP LIKE VERY DISPREPORTIONATLY, shifted left when whole country shifted right, and even your shitty suburban/rural county you grew up in voted for hillary and didn't shifted like 0.1% right and still blue. You're living in the past, cuck country, and you come from cuck country stock.</div>\n<p>Oh, take that whig off your history, you silly toff.</p><p>(Okay though, as brusque anons go, this guy actually read my old posts and pegged his hits to specific points, that\u2019s worth rewarding.)</p><p>First off, it\u2019s fuckin\u2019 great. It\u2019s like listening to lowrider music, you get all of the great stuff from across decades and none of the dross.</p><p>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\u2019m not shocked the Democrats won as But Still, Bernie\u2019s Party<a href=\"http://fusion.net/story/329994/bernie-sanders-independent/\" target=\"_blank\">*</a> and their opponent White Workers Matter took second as a me-too.<br/></p><p>We\u2019ll see how left and Democratic politics go from here. Portland\u2019s a nice place, I largely trust it. Really, it\u2019s got quite the treasury of civic trust to draw on. Make America Portland Again isn\u2019t a terrible idea and if Trump doesn\u2019t deliver maybe the Chapo boys have a hat.<br/></p><p>And realignments take a while. NYC if anywhere had a nightmare \u201870s 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.</p><p>Appfuckers and yuppies moving in (you know, \u201880s New Republic types), black-denim-and-beanies pushed out, we\u2019ll see. Maybe that sanctuary defunding pushes homeowners to vote their wallets over their hearts, we\u2019ll see. The VC app crash is coming eventually, we\u2019ll see. If a Trump realignment reaches the rest of the state and brings one of the legislative houses back red or to parity that\u2019ll 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\u2019t\u2019ve expected.<br/></p><p>Plus, I mean, <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multnomah_County,_Oregon#Law_and_government\" target=\"_blank\">the county went blue</a> 51% for Humphrey, 50% for McGovern, 47% for Carter \u201880 (I\u2019m guessing 14% for <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Anderson\" target=\"_blank\">friggin\u2019 <i>Anderson</i></a>), 54% for Mondale, 62% for Dukakis,\u00a0 64% for Gore, 72% for Kerry, and <a href=\"http://www.wweek.com/culture/2016/05/04/big-trouble-in-little-beirut/\" target=\"_blank\">batshit nuts</a> against legendary tyrant George HW Bush.</p><p>Who the fuck was behind the times voting against Mondale?<br/></p>"}