R.I.P., Portland, Oregon

Obituary:

The City of Portland died this week, succumbing to a lingering and worsening illness known to most as lack of positive direction.

An autopsy is required. It is worth noting some of the symptoms of this disease.

• The City began hosting a dangerous underclass, euphemistically called "homeless", but the vast majority of the underclass are homeless by their own choice, and gravitate towards locales which give them a gratis existence, allowing them to break laws that we producers must adhere to. The City has diverted tens of millions of dollars to holding this "potlatch" for the Homeless Tribe, at the expense of required infrastructure repairs and traditional City functions and services.
• The City joined the anti-Trump "Resistance", just another name for socialist revolutionaries. In doing so, it alienated many of us who pay it's taxes and/or supported it's commerce and it's very existence.
• The City, in the passion of their "resistance", even went so far as to begin denying civil rights, enumerated civil rights such as the First and Second Amendments that the US Constitution requires.
• In it's death throes, the City just mis-played their hand when a multiple murder spree happened on a transit line. A crazy person began to act out. Most transit riders (I rode that line to work for three years) see this far too often. The acting out was ALL verbal, but several persons became offended and got physical with the crazy guy, and it so happened he was proficient in knife attack and two of the "social justice warriors" died and a third was wounded. Essentially, the dead people escalated a verbal harassment situation up to their own deaths. Doubling down on these SJWs deadly error of failed combat, the City now proclaims them "heroes", and has pomp and ceremonies to go with the proclamations. These men weren't heroes, they were misguided busybodies, but now they symbolize the City which died with them.
• As if to prove that civility is indeed dead in the City, today there was another attack on the same transit line, when ANOTHER misguided individual, the transit motorman, attempted to remove another crazy ranting guy from his train. The motorman didn't didn't die, was just beat up for his trouble.

I'm sorry to see Portland die. I finished growing up here, graduated from Portland State College (now Portland State University). Before sheltering me, the City sheltered my father and his father, a refugee from the terrible Earthquake and Fire of 1906 in San Francisco. My children grew up here, and most lead very productive lives, still in the Metro area.

I guess I need to read some zombie comics and watch some zombie films, because there will soon be a lot of walking dead in these environs.

Comments

[Merle]

Makes me wonder why the "homeless zombies" don't freeze to death in winter???

Merle