One Thing Has Changed at Portland City Hall: The Socialists Are Setting the Agenda

He's mine! I saw him talk when he came to our community center. It was refreshing having a politician who seemed ready to actually make positive change. Because after our last system of government, we definitely need it.

This is quite a new change for us. Decades of the most incompetent politicians makes me very cynical that the new regime will be any better. Usually we get a very progressive bill to vote on, one i usually agree with and want to vote for but is clear there is no system in place or even real plan to support the bill if it passes. See our recent failures in drug decriminalization and gun control. Both things I believe in, but decriminalization passed and was a complete failure and the gun control measure was so poorly thought out that it will be a decade before a reasonable measure will be proposed again. Don't even mention Wapato prison. Plenty of good intentions but absolutely squandered by incompetence.

Writing all that it still sounds better than a red state.