I think of the severe negativity I have experienced over my life and try and place it in the context of the mild though instructive invalidation of the past week in the very non-violent but now-shithole city of Portland.
If you are a conservative who fears Portland as an Anteefa war zone, I have to tell you that trouble does not come looking for you here—you have to go looking for it. Portland lacks the melanation to be a place of consistent predation. Yesterday in Portland, one homeless man was killed when a tree fell on him. That is it...