[JayNorth]

Is Nike delusional or just cowed by the PC crowd

I have to visit the Portland area frequently, typically staying downtown but driving right past Nike headquarters in Beaverton almost every trip. What I notice from the time I arrive until the blessed time my plane pushes back for the flight home is the smug liberalism left-wing-ism that infects every aspect of that sad metropolis.

Perhaps it's just that I take note of any news from Portland out of concern for my own safety (on an upcoming trip), but it seems like these completely fake "hands up don't shoot" and "President Trump's election was illegitimate" type protests are the most violent in Portland, regularly including closed down streets, broken windows, overturned and burned cars, etc. Driving anywhere downtown reveals hundreds of "homeless" living in tent cities and occupying city parks. A visit to Fred Mayer (a regional department store) includes aggressive "homeless" panhandlers permanently camped out on the premises. A store employee told me they are powerless to do anything about it.

What amazes me is that the general populace accepts what any normal human being would regard as a complete breakdown of civility and in fact thinks it somehow demonstrates just how "caring" Portlanders are. Nike management appears to reflect that local mindset.

[Ohioan]

What you describe is stupidity compounded in a way that demonstrates one of the hypotheses at my Conservative Resource Center--i.e. that the Left is largely compulsion driven. That the city you describe misses essential reality, consider Jefferson's comments on how Virginia in the 1780s handled the "safety-net"--and contrast with modern faux compassion.

Jefferson On Welfare.

Is there any conceivable rational argument for the Portland approach, over that of the Founding Fathers? Any!!