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Absolutely this. A country needs a healthy government and public employees dedicated and honest. A culture of sacrifice for public good. Not "but meeeeee!" cult
by renegade-otter 3y ago
Absolutely this. A country needs a healthy government and public employees dedicated and honest. A culture of sacrifice for public good. Not "but meeeeee!" culture.
It does not work where the "Deep State" is the enemy and grifters run for Congress to become Twitter trolls.
- mlrtime 3y agoWhich congress trolls? You are blaming Portland's currently fail[ed|ing] policies on federal congress members that have nothing to do with Portland?
- local_crmdgeon 3y agoI don' think this one is on the Republicans, a group that effectively doesn't exist in Portland politics. This is a progressive failure
- mminer237 3y agoI don't disagree with you, but I don't think that's the problem here necessarily. I admittedly don't know much about the attitudes of Portland's commission members. I think more to the point the issue is that you can't legislate morality. Some people will break the law no matter how harsh the penalty, and some people will take advantage of permissiveness no matter how much you try to help. Some problems the government just can't fix.