I'm not sure if it was Portland or Seattle, but the only reason either city is turning up the heat on riot control is because ANTIFA went into the mayor's house and picketed there.
Not because of CHAZ, not because of the two murders from CHAZ, not because of the constant rioting, but because they showed up uninvited to their safe space.
Let that sink in. Their private property means more than the city they're supposed to represent. I betcha if the whole CITY burned down until it reached her neighborhood, she wouldn't care one bit.
I don't even live there and I'm pissed off. This is all motivated for selfish intentions. Dumb bitch.
I'll play a bit of devil's advocate. Part of the point of federalism is to locate the power close to where people live. If there's a problem in a city, the local officials
should feel uncomfortable as they go about their daily lives. Their neighbors should shun them, and they should get dirty looks in restaurants. Power holders should have skin in the game, so to speak, instead of ruling from afar, passing laws in Washington DC where the anger and the problems can't touch them.
So if things get bad enough that their entire hometown hates them, they
should feel miserable. They
should have people shouting at their office windows and attending Council meetings to give angry speeches. And if things get bad enough that a mob shows up at their house, and your neighbors don't stop it for you, it
should become an unavoidable problem that
must be solved.
...in a sane democracy, anyway. The problem Portland/Seattle face is that those same local politicians encouraged the mobs for 2 months straight. The mob isn't an uprising of the populace with broad support, the mob is being allowed because those exact politicians told the police to
allow them.
The power brokers are being attacked by extensions of their own party, their own ideology. It's a proto-phase of the revolution eating its own, if you view The Revolution as being the woke takeover of politics that happened nearly a decade before.
The irony is the other side would probably come out to defend the local politicians and kick the mobs out themselves, in a proper display of street politics... except they rightly believe that the politicians would backstab them and serve them as scapegoats to the mob. Notice how the
Seattle police chief's neighbors kicked out the protesters when they tried it there? Those are the handful of citizens who know a power broker personally, and know they won't be prosecuted for it.
