Of course the media is. They’re in cahoots with the political apparatus to massage public opinion in the direction of more police intervention.
I’d argue it’s not even a conspiracy. They don’t hide it. The public just doesn’t think of it that way.
There’s nothing going on in Portland you can’t find in large cities across the country. 52 homicides in Portland last year. 700+ in Chicago.
But we’re used to hearing about it in Chicago.
The media’s job is to attract viewers. They’ll waste no opportunity to dramatize what is, unfortunately, routine human tragedy to that end.
The US government spent tons of money on propaganda programs during the World Wars and it all made its way to university advertising, journalism, and marketing programs.
I’m not going all deep state since it’s public record. And it’s not as if grandstanding to gain public support is new.
The state has an obligation to the people. Not some people who don’t like the state anymore.
I’d feel this way if it was left leaning folks who want the liberal regions to join California.
It’s not about “these people” at all for me except that these people happen to be the ones we’re talking about.
I’d appreciate it if an armchair shrink not diagnose me without knowing me.
It’s not the obligation of the state as a whole to kowtow to already free people who are feeling captured when it’s their own minds keeping them where they are.
This problem is already solved by the US Constitution which allows for them to move between state borders as they wish. It’s not on the whole of Oregon to satisfy them.
They have no power in our system to simply upend norms as they choose.
They can pack up and move themselves if they don’t like it.
The onus is not on everyone else to cater to them. It’s to abide laws as they are written within our constitutional system of elections and statutes overseeing them.
I’m not saying that’s ideal. I’m saying that’s how it works.
Down votes do nothing to make it any less true.
If these folks would like to change that, I’m sure blue urban areas and states would love to renegotiate their wealth being extracted to fund rural communities.
Ironically, Idaho is a bigger grifter on Federal welfare than Oregon.
So they want a more conservative way of life? Which appears to mean “more welfare for me”.
If they dig into the history a bit they’d learn rural life was subsidized to begin with, with the government paying business to move out of urban areas.
Using government to change the rules for all is not “little government”. Upending state borders out of spite is hardly a “conservative” solution.
Their entire platform is laughable given the reality.
It may look that way should “one side” or the other control an official political body, but at least for now, we still abide election laws insuring the “rule of law” bit.
The war on drugs put people in prison for emotional belief those people were morally inferior.
It rightly so should be abolished.
To be replaced with trained medical help, detox programs, and a conversation about morality not tethered to superstition, or black and white judgments.
But the fundies, acting out of emotion, prefer boxes.
It’s all emotion since humans are motivated by such. It’s the outcome that should be judged.
you’re all over the map talking about grandparents moving out (which implied to me you meant blood relatives), now you’re on about an social wide norm of random old people.
But since you mention it, I DO have a “random old person” watching my kids right now as I live thousands of miles away from my biological parents for now.
There are daycares being busted for neglect and abuse so industrialization is hardly a solution to the problem of finding the right person.
I’m done with the patronizing attitude. Have a good day.
Edit: yes down vote me for not agreeing with you, and having a reasonable rebuttal. Weird flex, but ydy.
Before the last generation or so, the elderly moved into family support roles.
Given that we’re bending over backwards to inflate the wealth of older investors, deflating the buying power of the younger generation in exchange, is enabling retirement a great idea?
It sounds amazing, right? But why must the youth honor the elder generations contracts at their expense?
Why must we “wait” until we can live a free adult life? Just kidding; it’s to prop up the choices of the past as I said.
There are embedded social norms that need a fundamental rethink.
I’d argue it’s not even a conspiracy. They don’t hide it. The public just doesn’t think of it that way.
There’s nothing going on in Portland you can’t find in large cities across the country. 52 homicides in Portland last year. 700+ in Chicago.
But we’re used to hearing about it in Chicago.
The media’s job is to attract viewers. They’ll waste no opportunity to dramatize what is, unfortunately, routine human tragedy to that end.
The US government spent tons of money on propaganda programs during the World Wars and it all made its way to university advertising, journalism, and marketing programs.
I’m not going all deep state since it’s public record. And it’s not as if grandstanding to gain public support is new.