Portland’s problems are no mystery. The problem is ideology

…It seems the problem could be fixed by re-funding the police, restoring the confidence of the quality officers who serve, and by aggressively policing and prosecuting the behaviors that have turned parts of the city into dangerous hotbeds of violence and criminality.

That would be a simple, but certainly doable, shift in priorities. However, The Times gets to the real issue with Portland, and it’s not just the criminals.

The newspaper also interviewed Juniper Simonis, environmental biologist and data scientist whose yard featured a handmade “Disarm, Defund, Dismantle Police” sign. Despite the escalating crime in her area, Simonis said that the problem with Portland wasn’t that it was too liberal, but that it wasn’t liberal enough.

She said that Portland is trying to “regulate homelessness out of the city” and that it needs to devote more resources to social services.

“Conservatives have long branded this city Exhibit A for how liberals and so-called ‘woke’ policies have run amok,” the Times piece read. Well, yes. “While many Portlanders roll their eyes at such tropes, polls conducted last year showed only 11% of voters thought Portland was heading in the right direction — a steep drop from 36% in 2020 and 76% in 2000.”

Maybe, instead of rolling their eyes, they should consider how their worldview — almost entirely ascendent in seats of power in Portland — is leading to misery, not utopia…






https://www.christianpost.com/voices/portlands-problems-are-no-mystery-the-problem-is-ideology.html








They know why they have the problems that they do. They know what to do to get their problems under control. They refuse. Their ideology won’t let them.

 

Let their cities like Portland wilt under the effects of it. We all know that such crap would not be tolerated in smaller red cities and towns.if they will not change and heal we just have to leave them to their folly and make certain it does not trespass into red locations whatever it takes to stop them.

 

There can't be any rational people left there, so just leave em to it, lol...

 

The question is, how bad do things have to get before the city turns into a ghetto.

In the late 1970s to early 1980s there was a problem in many big cities in the U.S. called "urban decay". Basically the middle class left and the city began falling apart.

Of course, it's also possible that things are different now. America has added so much population that all its big cities (at least in the coastal regions) are overcrowded which has driven up prices. It's possible that these sky high housing prices have a gentrifying effect strong enough to counteract any surge in crime. That is, no matter how bad things get, there will still be enough people of middle class means desperate enough to still want to live in a trendy big city.

 

That’s pretty much it. And not letting it spread to other peoples communities.