Portland, Oregon – This city is in the national spotlight this week because of the violent antifa antifa with their attacks on the local immigration and customs enforcement detention center after President Trump’s plan to submit federal law enforcement. But the real problem of this once-big city is a prosperous population that seems indifferent to the twins of human misery and domestic terrorism that it has come to define it.
The two problems may be more related than they seem.
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On Monday morning the center of Portland is a ghost city according to the standards of most major American cities. There are actually only two types of people who walk around, those who have a lot of money, and those who have none.
This is very much a phenomenon on the west coast, in many ways comparable to the mess in which San Francisco is located. In both liberal enclaves it is normal to turn a corner, from a block of high-end shopping, and to walk into a row of homeless tents, the smell of human waste and burning drugs that are granted.
I asked John, in his forty, who kills a parking garage in the area, if it is just something you get used to. “I think so,” he told me. “I will come here and have to kick homeless people, throw away needles, it’s everywhere.”
On the corner I stopped and lit a cigarette, a Vervist man walked by pushing a bike with a plate on it with the text: “Bike for sale, offer.” While I was thinking about the origin of the Trek used, a very nice, although clearly homeless and addicted young woman asked to bump a smoke.
When I gave her one, she said, “Thank you, you’re great” with big eyes. I stammered a “thanks” back and then watched how she hit the man by bike, gave him the cigarette and went to another brand. I had to admit that it was a refined little gragging.
For everyone from a Northeast -American city, this all feels very, very strange. Dystopic, even.
For example, there are homeless people who are sprinkled around the center of Philadelphia, but you have to look for the pure human misery that Kensington is with his coniferous park. It is omnipresent in Portland.
Since President Donald Trump announced that he would send the federal authorities to clean up the city, we have seen many of that most useless form of discourse, photos from Portland with beautiful brunches or a nice store placed on social media by liberals to say, “Look, it’s fine.”
The sidewalks of Portland are teasing the tents of homeless drug addicts, but many of the citizens seem indifferent.
This weekend, Democrat Gov. Tina Kotek A crowd in Battleship Oregon Park and placed images of how beautiful it is. I went there on Monday morning, just to find it decorated with a homeless man fainting at the base, cigarette is dangling out of his hand.
What this extremely privileged, as a progressive could say, social media messages about so -called pleasant Portland reveal a general callusity for the suffering that has begun, supported by such a constant exposure to it.
The have-allthings and the have-nothings actually ignore each other.
And it is not only the homeless to which Portlanders have become used to. With the local CFS, which looked like something from the Soviet Union, 90% of the shares were locked and key, not only razors and deodorant, but bags of chips.
I asked the armed guard – such as San Francisco, you almost never see armed police, only private – armed security – when he stops a lot of theft. “Look around,” he told me, “there is nothing that they can steal, I am usually here for crazy or violent people who might come in.”
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The crystal clear message that this sends to the citizens is that they live surrounded by thieves who cannot be trusted, so they have to go to the protection of chic restaurants or their high -rise apartments and let the streets be the streets.
That is where Antifa returns to the story.
Why does Antifa feel competent to simply take over square blocks from Portland and to bother who they want? In New York City of Philadelphia, the police would eventually close it. Where I live in West Virginia, it would not take 10 minutes.
The obvious answer is that the city does not stop them. Just as the city does nothing to clean up vagrancy and open drug use, it is just total surrender, because people die from day to day on the street under the beautiful pine trees with a view of what a beautiful city should be.
Trump’s efforts to make Washington, DC, Safer, Cleaner and Freer of Vagrants are with some misleading gratitude, even in the deep blue capital, but expects not to see here in Portland.
The rich here just don’t seem to give much when people stick needles out of their arms, or when Antifa attacks journalists. There is kombucha and there are cute shoe stores and the like, and no matter how crazy it seems to me, many people here really think that the situation is fine.
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