Who they are
Remember when, in the summer of '21, a bunch of heavily armed Proud Boys showed up over by Parkrose High School and started a riot that went on for a couple of hours, with cars overturned and people brutally beaten? I do. I blogged about it here.
So guess what. One of the far-right wingnuts responsible for that sorry episode is now the vice chairman of the Clackamas County Republican Party. It's part of a chilling story from OPB, here.
Really, Republicans? Shame. Shame on you.
It appears that Oregon’s rural/suburban view of politics is subjectively different than the guys in the big cities
ReplyDeleteI'm still unclear on what it is the rural/suburban types want from Salem that they're not receiving. Maybe you can help.
DeleteListening would be a good start
DeleteSee what I mean? Nothing.
DeleteWhat do they want? Gimme three things rural/suburban Oregon wants that they don't have.
Idaho.
DeleteMore than anything else, they want to go back to the days before one person/one vote, when in Oregon (as everywhere else) rural districts were wildly overprivileged in terms of legislative power as urban voters were packed into a few districts and given the same number of representatives as rural districts with few people but lots of empty acres. A whole lot of rural voters and politicians have never gotten over the change and it’s still poisoning relations, because when you’ve lived your whole life with unearned power and privilege, equality feels like an assault.
DeleteUnearned power sounds like a lot of our urban culture.
DeletePoint made. The urban areas have power in proportion to their share of the populace. Rural folks were fine with disproportionate power when it was in their favor. When the balance shifted to one-person/one-vote, the unearned power that the rural areas had always had followed the voters to urban and suburban areas. Now the rural areas live on the taxes generated in urban areas, driving on roads they could never afford to build or maintain without taxes generated in urban areas, and grouse about the unearned power of the urban areas that they depend on.
DeleteSo this is the guy that strong-armed Tootie Smith with “GOP Censure”into changing her vote on the Project Turnkey hotel purchase?
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