Look at THIS shit though

This worries me. For all the lefty image from afar, up close Portland had a pretty broad polity underlaid by a sense of aggressive reasonableness and an establishment secure and supple enough to adapt on its own terms rather than under threat, I’ve talked before about how great it was that government communications didn’t talk down to you

And now this, and not just this, after the election I started seeing Facebook ads from actual government arms – Place Matters Oregon which was nominally a health initiative, and some other ones – that used this chiding woke tone to tell me to be angry about social justice issues and like WHAT THE HELL

and there’s a candidate running in the next election on some sort of platform that it’s her opponent’s duty to clear the way for her, a black woman

And I just don’t trust the “aggressively reasonable”, yuppie Californiaizing bobo establishment to have the antibodies to fight this off. Meanwhile the conservatives are at the point of indignantly demanding that establishment defend them from political paramilitary street gangs.

Apparently they’re wokemail resistance at Reed, that’s promising, but.

Really it is past time the less white, more immigrant areas east of 82nd got a bigger share of power, there was a good chance to do that within the establishment a few years ago but the downtown/inner eastside froze Jefferson Smith out, but spilled milk.

Like I say, the key is gonna be uniting the evangelical Russians and the anticommunist Asian immigrants. Get ‘em angry at the hidden curriculum at PCCC, maybe unite through church networks with emerging Hispanic Pentecostalism and the established infrastructure of the Christian colleges?

Hand the public sphere over to exotic Christianity, keep the yuppies in material comfort while the thinky ones rationalize how to be a respectable liberal while scoffing at radicalism from their perches. Beat the 70s with the 80s.

Which brings us to the ‘90s I might pine for now but at the time was boring normie Office Space Applebee’s, that I wanted to leave and find a place like Portland was.

Fuckin’ A, wonderful. What a world, what a world.