Nearly every Oregonian is a socialist expecially when it comes to the trees. They are truly too blind to see.
“Nearly every Oregonian is a socialist”
Wrong!
Some of them are communists.
(and a few are neither)
I am a very conservative Oregonian, who has seen the scourge of poverty, drug addiction and crime caused by the spotted owl hysteria all too closely. Returning the land to private ownership is the best thing we could do.
With more income from forestry, we could be a wonderful place, instead of a hellhole of rural poverty for too many families.
The only even remotely "socialist" idea I have is the land must be sold in such a way that the people of the state retain the right to hunt on it. I do not want the owners of some timber company, or conglomerate, with headquarters in New England telling us we can't hunt deer and elk in their tree garden that they have never seen.
Of course, it would never work even if they did. No local sheriff, who has to stand for re-election every few years, would ever enforce a notice closing the forest to hunting.
About that, you would be wrong. Carpetbaggers, maybe.