i'm not American so i'd like to ask Americans how Portland ended up with so many crazy people more than anywhere else?
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Slow accumulation over time, that eventually hit a breaking point. Back in the early '00s Portland gained a reputation for being a Mecca for Liberals and free-spirit types, similar to the way San Francisco and Berkeley were back in the '60s and '70s. Since like attracts like when it comes to idealogues and unstable people, they gained more and more far-left thinkers and believers in crazy theories. Portland further gained a penchant for being "weird", with people doing oddball things on the streets just because they could. Go look up a video of The Unipiper - a guy in a Darth Vader helmet and kilt playing a flaming bagpipe while riding a unicycle - as an example. The reputation was fostered and maintained by the socialist denizens of the city, to the point of counter-culture vultures in the city starting campaigns to "Keep Portland Weird" when the normies wanted to clamp down on some of the rampant oddity.
We all know that trying to maintain a socialist city is an unattainable goal. You can only have so many unemployed rainbow-haired street freaks wandering aimlessly through the day, sucking off the system, for so long. Eventually the place hit critical mass and full-on Marxist ideology started running through the leftist populace, and you end up with the shit-show we have today. If I was a normal person who was living in Portland, I'd sure as hell be sizing up my options for getting the fuck out of the city.
i mean i like the good kind of weird but i hate communists , subverters and people that leech in the manner like you described. They sound like they never grew up. . Though what "free thinking " do they have when they all follow the same cult and are in to censoring and banning free speech and art now a days?
You pretty much hit the nail on the head right there. A good majority of Millennials weren't raised with proper parenting techniques and are basically arrested development cases. Their parents wanted to be their kid's friend instead of being a role model and disciplinarian. The kids were coddled by their helicopter parents, and the parents made it so they didn't have to face any sort of adversity or failure. Sports or other group events? Nobody keeps score, everyone gets a participation ribbon. Kid got a bad score on a test at school? Parent goes to the principal and bitches about the teacher's techniques. The kids didn't have to deal with feelings of loss or failure, or to have to learn about fair play and personal achievement. Nobody drove them to excel or improve based on their merits, and I believe that this contributed to their abhorrence of a merit-based society. They were given head-pats and cookies for just existing, so why shouldn't society do the same for them now?
Yeah, "free thinking" has always pretty much lent itself to being counter-culture, and back in the '60s and '70s that typically that meant standing up to authoritarian rule - which, to be honest, was pretty bad back then. The problem now is that the "free thinkers" of today have become the exact thing they rallied against 50-odd years ago. They, themselves, have turned into authoritarian types that are trying to impose their will upon the populace, with tactics involving racism (disguised as "diversity"), fascism (disguised as anti-fascism), and attempts to push their control over the way people think and speak through both coercion and force. It's like they read Orwell's 1984 and took it as an instruction manual instead of a cautionary tale.