Originally Posted by
05Duramax
I always thought we were supposed to be Americans first, no matter where you came from. Now it seems whatever state leans towards politics wise you must hate a state or a city because it is different from you politically. I find that absurd. Politics is supposed to be an ideological exercise of debate, not your identity. Now people see themselves as liberal or Republican first. It’s quite clear that post is from someone who watches Fox News nonstop so they get their marching orders to hate Seattle and Portland. Never mind that most people who live in these places are just normal folks going to work everyday. It’s the same people who hate California, forget that the majority of the whole country gets its fresh food from the state. And I would agree, it’s both sides, I just see the vitriol for hating whole swaths of this country and it’s residents seems to be a particularly popular thing in the Tucker Carlson fan base.
I grew up in Portland area, and went to college in Seattle. I weep a little inside every time I see what has become of those once great layover cities. In both of them, our airline has moved out of the city on layovers due to security concerns. Portland had a nice downtown vibe going alive and well in the 90's-00's. Not so much anymore. Seattle also feels much more unsafe than it did a couple of decades ago. Both cities have been wildly mismanaged over the last decade to their own demise. My friends who live in Portland would never consider going downtown now to have fun. Even in Seattle, Amazon has moved some workers out of the city for their own "safety".
It's really sad, because the very people who would love for the public to move to the "city", live in apartments, forget the car and use mass transit, seem to run the cities in such a way that makes all of that untenable for a normal family.